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Old May 18, 2005 | 06:24 PM
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I plan on doing to Walmart route soon. I did a search and posted a while back. And if you want to most wieght loss. The walmart will be the way. I'm sure the Speed inc. stuff is nicer quality. But for wieght and price, you can't beat it.

Like to see more pics, and glue options.
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Old May 20, 2005 | 01:41 AM
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I'm still curious, how much weight is saved (SpeedInc, Walmart.....whatever), roughly, over stock?
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Old May 20, 2005 | 02:42 AM
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about 40 lbs that stock carpet is HEAVY.
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Old May 20, 2005 | 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by SUX2BU
about 40 lbs that stock carpet is HEAVY.

I agree it's weighs alot. Kinda like a watermelon and a grapefruit.
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Old May 20, 2005 | 12:03 PM
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I just bought some Home Depot carpet and spent right at 40 bucks. Me and my buddy went to install it and after about 6 hours spent and all the wrinkles and over/under cutting, just decided to screw it and strip the padding off my stock carpet and reinstall that. Too much of a headache unless you know what your doing IMO.
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Old May 21, 2005 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by SUX2BU
I went to the local fabric store and bought $20 worth of REALLY thin fleece(yeah like the sweater fleece) it weighs MAYBE 3 or 4 lbs. and i alsao ditched my center console. but i don't think i used enuff or the right glue in a couple spots cause it came unstuck.

Can i see more pics of the center console delete? thanks
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Old May 22, 2005 | 02:06 PM
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i took those with my camera phone. so what do you want a pic of? lmk
I was just looking for some closer up pictures. Possibly around the area where you mated two peices together. And just close ups of any area really. I'm just curious if it looks factory or not. Thanks!
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Old May 22, 2005 | 07:12 PM
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i just used one big 10 foot by 6 foot piece. so i didn't join any pieces. as for the console delete i just mounted my shifter, cut a hole in the fabric and put it around the shifter. i do need to reglue the spots right behind the seats though i think they came unglued due to the heat from my exhaust.
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Originally Posted by Kalijah98z
I just bought some Home Depot carpet and spent right at 40 bucks. Me and my buddy went to install it and after about 6 hours spent and all the wrinkles and over/under cutting, just decided to screw it and strip the padding off my stock carpet and reinstall that. Too much of a headache unless you know what your doing IMO.
I just did this and all the padding etc plus a few misc plastic peices from the seats added up to about 18lbs, I never though about using Home Depot or Wal Mart carpet until this thread though. Even after removing all that stuff the stock carpet did feel heavy still.
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