[Shotimes] Wow how do they make carpet that heavy!?

[Tom Teixeira]

At 9:42 AM -0500 3/14/06, Zach Leahy wrote:
>I've been busy with the 93 removing unnecessary items, but not going nuts.
>I basically plan to pull everything behind the front seats, but leave the
>front with a stock look.   so it'll have door panels, console, seats,
>headliner, and carpet still from the front seat forward.  I pulled the front
>seats out and the front carpet last night....  Wow, really how do they make
>the carpet weigh like 40lbs!?  I'll be following Kegel's example and am
>going to remove all the padding from the back, and then amputating it and
>taking out about 1/2 of the area.  Why carpet under the seats if I don't
>need to.  So I'll trace up some lines and then pare it down a bit.

Noise and vibration, though I'm not sure how much is required. I have 
a 66 Mustang. When we got it, it had carpet but no underlayment. 
Adding the underlayment made it quieter, though still very noisy by 
today's standards.

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Tom Teixeira		mailto:tjteixeira@earthlink.net
Now SHO-less. Former owner of blue 94 MTX and green 91+