| One of the last things to do is the
carpet and like the rest of the interior, I haven't done this either.
Now because I have four places that the roll-cage will be passing
through the carpet, I didn't know how to finish it in that area so it
would look right, so I called a good friend of mine, Paul, to help me
out. Paul used to have his own business doing upholstery awhile ago but
has since sold all his equipment. He also did a seat
for me in an old truck of mine which came out great. Paul and I go
back a long ways as we went to school together and we've been friends
ever since. The first thing he did was
break out some
pattern paper to make a template of the floor which would later get transferred
to the carpet. Pattern paper is about twice as thick as butcher paper to
give you an idea of what it's like. I removed my seats, gas pedal, break pad and steering
column so we had some room to work. Then we started cutting and taping
paper together to cover the entire floor. We made the cutouts for the
brake pedal, steering column, shifter and four places where the roll
cage meets the floor. One of the most critical places when doing carpet
is covering the transmission tunnel. If that's not done right, everyone
sees it, and no one wants that to happen so this is where Paul comes in.
One thing that will be in our favor is the center console. A console can
hide a few things like the cut that will be going from the front of the
carpet all the way to the rear of the shifter. Now if I didn't have a
console, that cut would be much shorter and would have to be in just the
right place. Speaking of being in just the right place, there is a
cut-out on the tunnel that will tricky because that part
will show even with a console.
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