01_ram-air

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I had to pull the carpet out when I installed the 6 point roll bar in the car. I decided to see if I could get a little weight out of it while I had some spare time on my hands. I slowly did this over time since my car is currently not moving under its own power. I figured that this was a good alternative to spending more money on "light weight" carpet. I've heard some stories where putting in light weight carpet either created a pain with fitment issues or quality of carpet over time. (Not to say that's always the case b/c I've seen people that have had great success with swapping out the carpet also). I just figured I would post this as another way to go if you're on a budget and don't mind putting in the time.

When I first pulled the carpet out...





Then I started scraping all the sound deadening material off. I took a razor and cut as close to the carpet as I could as I slowly pulled the material off. As you can see, in some areas there is actually more then one layer. (My dog layed down on the carpet so I couldn't resist taking the picture)











After I got the majority of everything off I weighed it. I weighed it multiple times by different means and each time it came out to 13 lbs.



However, there was still a lot of material that was glued to the carpet.



This is where I got out my trusty little belt sander. Nothing special.



I didn't try to do this all in one sitting. (Not to say that you can't) I took my time and when I got tired of messing with it, I just pulled it back into the garage and waited until I had more spare time. I actually thought I took more pictures of the different phases, but apparently not. These will have to do.





After spending a while sanding with the belt sander I switched to a little hand sander that worked better for getting into tight spaces. At times, the belt sander was covering too much surface area. There's no way I would have tried the whole carpet with just the hand sander though.



All in all, I probably got out about another 3 lbs of material between the sound deadening stuff and the bottom side of the carpet that I sanded. But, to be conservative I rounded down to 2 lbs. It looks much better now.












Hope this helps someone else.

ty_ty13

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it will be loud now!

01_ram-air

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01_ram-air

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My car is already extremely loud with the bullet mufflers dumped. I drove around for a while with the interior gutted. I got use to it. Putting the carpet back in will only help at this point. Plus, I don't DD the car anymore

Demonicbird00

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dam you went all out w/ the heat gun i didnt go that far but did take all sound deadening out. also take out that hard rubber out from the trunk area too thats about 3 or 4 lbs

-brandon

01_ram-air

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What exactly are you referring to? Can you show me in one of the pics that I posted?

BlackScreaminMachine

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Yea I got about that much w/o heat gun, most just peeled off.

01_ram-air

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13lbs came out in about an hour.

the additional 2 lbs took about 2 months. lol

Z-RATED94

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An 11.49 or quicker requires a six point bar, such as the OP has. Actually a 5 point, no passenger side door bar is legal.

01_ram-air

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correct. 11.49 or quicker and you're suppose to have a roll bar.

This is a wolfe 6 point roll bar w/ swingouts. Trust me, pay the extra for the swing outs. This roll bar is good to 9.99 I believe.

Demonicbird00

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where you store the t tops, down in there. theres a "rubber" like mat

i guess your putting the rear seats back in to? if not take out the rear seat belts.

also i removed as much of the firewall rubber mat as well too. thats quite heavy. i only cut what i could reach w/ a knife. if you take the dash out theres more but im not gonna go that far lol

-brandon

01_ram-air

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Are you talking about something that would have been located here?





I'm guessing it was already removed by the previous owner when the car was wrecked and fixed.

Demonicbird00

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yeha down where the rubber gromet is, is where i was talking about

WS6 SRT-8

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Wanna get rid of the Boxer? Greatest dogs ever! Oh. Good job on the carpet too.

01_ram-air

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You would have to pry him out of my dead hands. lol Yes, def an awesome dog. (And, he was a rescue dog from FL Boxer rescue) I got him when he was 8 months old and 55 lbs. He'll be 3 in June and he's a little over 80 lbs now.

Thx.

WS6 SRT-8

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Here's my rescue dog. Got him from the Columbia animal rescue here in MO.

Deerhunter-Z28

I need to do this, nice little writeup.

Cobra Commander

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excellent idea with the sander

regency

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damn that was really worth the effort in your car! I dont have enough carpet in the truck to even think about doing that.....lol. I might could get 5-6 #'s if that

2camaros6702

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You still wont catch me!!LOL.

Looks real good Jared. When is the car going to be back at the track?