Progress on #782

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by lippy

Dan,
The car looks great. It seems you solved your problems with the carpet on the tunnel and near the doors. One question for you: on the trapezoidal piece ahead of the tunnel, did you tuck the carpet under the tunnel? It looks like you did in the photo.
-Lippy

Thanks Lippy. On the door sills I finally resorted to the age-old mechanics aid -a hammer and body dolly. I put a couple layers of Gorilla tape on the aluminum and then used a curved dolly and hammer to work and stretch the outside edge of the trim to lay flat (flatter anyway) to the fiberglass sill. Not perfect but better.

I rolled the carpet at the forward edge of the tunnel per ERA and it actually fits better than I thought it would. I'm probably going to have to use a thicker foam strip at the bottom to seal well - 1/4 inch instead of the 1/8 inch foam tape I planned to use. The carpet on the footwells may still extend further under the tunnel than necessary too and possibly needs more trimming.

I used velcro on the trapezoidal piece and it was in place before I set the tunnel in so it probably just looks tucked under the tunnel but it's actually just butting up to the rolled edge on the tunnel. Since it's held by velcro I can adjust it. I used HD velcro for the pieces under the seats too although the seats are probably all that's needed there.

Our cars sort of look like SC and Street Roadster cousins.

Dan