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hey man im doing this too right now. just wondering how you went from teh first pic with all the left over tar to the second pic where everything is nice and smooth.

right now mine looks like the first picture and i dont want to paint over it with the left over tar pieces

Hard to think half of the stuff wont even been seen,even though it shiney,and new!

I salute you on a job well done!

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ah I should've explained better...soak an old rag in some paint thinner and the leftover tar crap should just wipe right off it might take a little elbow grease but the paint thinner dissolves the leftovers so it looks clean like in the second pic

Also, I was looking into the RAAMAT and was wondering how much RAAMmat and Ensolite you ended up using? Love the details!

I got the 62 sq ft roll it will probably be just enough to do the floor and doors and maybe 4-5 sq ft of ensolite should do it, ran me around $200 not bad and much cheaper than dynamat. If you want to do a little more than I did def get the 100 sq ft roll you'll need it.

Hammer and chisel for some of it, its painfully slow doing it this way but it works. The torch can soften it up a little bit just don't overheat it and burn it. I did about half the car that way and got tired of that so I picked up some dry ice, that was simple just dump the dry ice on the sound deadener let it sit about 10-15 mins and it freezes it enough it'll chip right off with hardly any force. Search around some a bunch of people used the dry ice method

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and the carpet roughly fitted still needs some trimming around the edges

BTW got the carpet here http://www.auto-interior.com/

The undercoat was in a spray can, I used rust bullet on the floor pans and I just brushed that on

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The baller wheels ima get are Sportmax 962's

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i had that same carpet in my car. and i hated it. the fit is ok at best. i pulled it out, threw it away, and went and found some nice pignose carpet.

True the fit is decent but any aftermarket carpet isn't going to fit perfectly, I think it will look fine once I get all the trim back in etc. I wanted black carpet and brand new its hard to find OEM carpet not beat to hell

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i had that same carpet in my car. and i hated it. the fit is ok at best. i pulled it out, threw it away, and went and found some nice pignose carpet.

op- about how many square feet on sound deadening did it take tocover the interior?

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I swing it around like a helicopter and all the ladies want to go for a ride.

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sorry i cant satisfy you, jeff

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in the other thread you said you got a carpet from stockinteriors.com now your saying you had this one, so which is it? op- about how many square feet on sound deadening did it take tocover the interior?

I got the 62 sq ft roll that should do the floors and doors, if you want to go nuts get the 100 sq ft roll

For the headliner and for next time working with fabric, a heat gun does wonders. Just 10-15 sec with a heat gun will make the fabric stretch and fit those contour lines and then all you have to do is wait for the glue to set. Also, i got a heat gun from harbor freight for 10 bucks, well worth the 10 dollars.

Stay in FL, MA is going to kill your car if you daily them

I'm in the middle a similar (way it should have come from the factory) build with my hatch. The new carpet I have fit ok except in the rear floor pan area. It doesn't sit all the way down on the floor so I'm afraid if someone sits in the back seat when it gets stepped on it will get pulled out. Still not sure how I will get around that.

What do you plan to do about the sunvisors? Seats?

This is a wonderful build, and I demand more pictures of it!

(also thank you for the informative captions; helps people like me learn )

I don't often have people in my backseat if I can help it, but still... Screws under the seat will leave 2" of gap between the floorboard and carpet so if someone steps on it the carpet will tear or stretch.

I will probably use a piece of sheet metal and expanding foam to level out the floor pan behind the front seats. I only need about 2" to make up the gap and there are the weird humps in the floorboard back there anyway. It's a similar process that some companies use to package heavy items. Lay down a layer of thin plastic, like saran wrap or shrink wrap, tape it to your piece of sheet metal or partical board with holes drilled in it to inject the foam through. Let the foam do what it do and tape off the hole as it starts to come out. Just make sure it stays level. It will be removable and custom contoured to the floorboard.

My posting was more to find out if anyone knew of a company that made carpet that such a solution isn't necessary becuase this problem is

As for seats I was looking at some r32 seats but the guy wanted way too much for them so I think I settled on celica gts seats they look pretty nice and will fit me perfect.

I was thinking of trying to make some GTO or optima sunvisors fit. Mine are shot, the previous owner destroyed the interior. Shame the way some people treat their vehicles, but it gave me an excuse to do a restore.