Started Carpet Install Yesterday - Everything Out and Clean

[Kirk M.]

I started my carpet install yesterday by taking everything out including the old carpet and padding and then spent most of today cleaning out all of the glue. As you can see from the pics, the front wasn't very "dirty" at all while the rear area had way more glue. Felt great to get out in the garage finally. I will keep posting more as I progress. I will post some after pics and then I am going to get ready to install my Hushmat before I do the padding and carpet.

Kirk

[Bill I.]

Re: Started Carpet Install Yesterday - Everything Out and Clean

Kirk, you do very good work, that looks great. You will be happy with the new install. Keep us informed with pics, Thanks, Bill.

[John S.]

Re: Started Carpet Install Yesterday - Everything Out and Clean

I started my carpet install yesterday by taking everything out including the old carpet and padding and then spent most of today cleaning out all of the glue. As you can see from the pics, the front wasn't very "dirty" at all while the rear area had way more glue. Felt great to get out in the garage finally. I will keep posting more as I progress. I will post some after pics and then I am going to get ready to install my Hushmat before I do the padding and carpet.

Kirk

Kirk,

Looking good! Where did you get your carpet from? What are you using for underlayment?

[Kirk M.]

Re: Started Carpet Install Yesterday - Everything Out and Clean

Carpet and underlayment were both from Al Knoch. The underlayment is the "tar" top with padding as backing. I am however going to install Hushmat before I do either of these. I want to cut down on heat and noise (it's a convertible so that part is a bit silly) in the cockpit. I definitely get some heat especially around the transmission tunnel and yes I have heat shields on my exhaust (which help a great deal) and the foil insulation on the underside of the transmission tunnel.

Al Knoch carpet set roadster 80/20 loop black
Al Knoch Heat and Sound Deadner-Like Original

Kirk

[John S.]

Re: Started Carpet Install Yesterday - Everything Out and Clean

kirk,

Thanks! I'm planning on doing a carprt replacement on my 1965 Coupe soon and was going to buy my carpet from Al Knoch. Please continue posting pictures as your installation progresses.

Good luck!

John