Took me for ever cause I would only work on it an hour here and there. Plus I am **** retentive and it would take me for ever to think it out before I would do it. LOL

I used A LOT of spray adhesive because I wanted the carpet to conform to every bend in the floor pan in order to be able to put my factory carpet over in for the summer to keep the car quiet.

I left the plastic interior panels out to show you where the carpet is and isn't.













YAY

 

That looks damn good. After looking at those pics I'm placing my order.

 

Hey that looks really good. Nice job Alex.
Ya know, you could lose a little more weight if you get rid of that 3rd foot pedal.

 

Just take your sweet time doing it, don't rush it, use lots of glue and a heat gun to stretch the carpeting over the floor boards.

 

Thanks dude, it took long enough but with the tracks opening up soon I said the hell with it and knocked the remainder out this afternoon.

An automatic with a converter weighs more then a T56... I think

 

I was just reffering to the pedal itself. haha
Nice work man.

 

that would make things even more difficult...

 

that looks really nice, good job! I hve my carpet hanging in my garage waiting for next weekend, I'm gonna get my rollbar painted this week, then I have the task of what you did. With any luck, it will come out as nice as yours did.

Where did you start with it? the way I was gonna go abotu it was to cut a small oval hole in the center a few feet back, set that over the shifter, and just enlongate it the lenth of the console a little at a time until I had it pushed up as far as I wanted it and then go from there..... that way the carpet woudl be connected in front where your feet are (I'd think it will help stop it from wanting to pove around some) and then lay it up into the back slowly... once it's all layed in, then start with the adhesive, and once it's glued down, do all the final trimming, and reinstall interior.

Sound about right?

 

Fantastic! The carpet install looks great. How much weight did you save over stock.?

 

I bet it is 30+ lbs lighter then stock. I got the same carpet, and 4 yards with a mile of plastic only weigh's 11 lbs, without the plastic it's about 9.5 lbs for the 4 yards, and you only need abotu 3 to cover everything... so you're probably looking at abotu 7 to 8 lbs of carpet maybe

Stock carpet with the backing is over 40 lbs.

 

Looks really good, Ill have to look into this some more for future installation!

 

I got 3 yards and I fell about 8" too short to cover the entire flat portion of the deck before the "trunk" I have a piece that will work to cover it, It will not be pretty with the extra seam but thats okay.

As far as weight savings I'm not sure. A wile back I pealed up my stock carpet and glued Dynamat in place of the factory sound proofing from the front seats back. With the Dynamat my carpet weight over 60lbs. Dynamat is heavy *** sh*t. So the weight savings is HUGE for me. That is mainly the reason why I would race with no carpet in the car. The Ozite was 7lbs without the shipping plastics. In the summer, to keep the car quite and appease the GF I will put the factory carpet with the Dynamat back in the car over the Ozite.

As far as installation; I started by laying the carpet in the car, cutting a long slit down the center I was able to move the sides all the way up into the foot well. Once the two sides of the carpet reached into the driver and passenger foot wells I glued down a patch of carpet to the top of the drive shaft tunnel from the rear center console mounting plate about 18" back. This was just to have the carpet stay as I was trying to stretch it over the front of the two sides of the car.

Next, I started trimming the sides around the center console are and glued it down to the transmission tunnel forward to the firewall. After the carpet was secured around the tunnel I worked outwards to the doors and back to the back seats.

It seems like the logical way to install this stuff is to work from the center out.

The pain int he *** part was around the rear seat wells and the flat part where the floorboards turn into the rear seat back. That required a lot of seam work. Here is a pic with the seams highlighted;



I will also make some sketches of the cuts that were made.

Like I said, I am **** retentive and I could not stand the idea of having ripples and folds. I would have rather taken more time in cutting and creating neat seams then to see bunching and folding.

 

That is a ******* amazing job. Great attention to detail.

 

Good Job!

A buddy and I installed Ozite in my car last weekend and it was pretty easy. We didn't glue it down at all, mainly because it's a race car and you never know when you'll need to take it out..

I was leary of the stuff, but after working with it, I would recommend it.

 

o.k. so you had to cut it to make it fit the floor right, it's not a big single piece that is still in there. I was wondering if that was gonna be the case or not. I an gonna try to cut an oval hole where the console is to start and then put the console back into the car, and start holding it in place that way. I got 4 yards so I don't think it will be an issue iwth it not covering the whole way back. I am gonna use the seats to hold the carpet in place there, leave the carpet long enough so that the screws that go thru the side plastic like the stock carpet holds that in place.. most of the gluing that I plan to do will be in the back. The child seat hooks as well as the body panels will be holding that carpet flat in the back as well.

Good job though, and thanks for the cut diagram, that may coem in handy when I get to doing it.. I don't want a ton of wrinkles either.

 

that came out great alex... and btw the t56 is lighter then the a4 and verter.
whats the weight of that stuff?

-brandon

 

7LBS for 3 yards by 80" wide.

The glue is 'permanent' but in case of emergency when I need to get to the wired beneath it I can always peel it back, the floorboards whon't be nice and pretty, maybe a little fuzzy LOL but It can always be taken out and the glue residue cleaned off with Brakeleen.

 

Does that carpet get all nasty if you rub the material a bit with your feet. I had some lightweight carpet and if you agitated the surface of it the carpet would get all fuzzy.

 

Came out really good
BTLFEDSS

 

Looks great. A couple of questions that I may have missed in one of the other posts: Where did you get it? How much was it? Did you order by the yard - just a flat piece of carpet?

I really hate the way my interior looks

Thanks

David