I've been out in the field recently, so no reliable internet. Anyway...

Here's a photo of the carpet I used; it's pretty thin as far as the backing and was/is very pliable. Heating might make it mold a little better or more completely, but really the wheel wells were the only issue.

Not sure if there will be any long term problems with moisture as mentioned; time will tell I suppose.

A photo of the front section glued in place and yet to be trimmed. I used a heavy duty spray adhesive, about $10 for the can. It worked really well for forming to the curves.


I should have taken a few more photos at this point, but I didn't. I ended up trimming the carpet so that the front part ended before the rise to the back section. It was easier for me to cut a transitional section that covered the rise into the back. I'll try to take a photo of that specifically later on, but the seem doesn't look bad and in the end I don't think it will matter for what I'm planning on doing.

Here's a photo of how it is as of now:

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I had some extra pieces from cutting the amount of carpet I bought, so I covered the back and side panels. Originally I hadn't planned on that, but what the heck (did I mention I'm not a fan of the blue?) Again... I'll try to take some more detailed photos of the wheel wells. I made one cut (sort of a pie shaped cut) to get the carpet to mold to the shape. The seem isn't the best thing in the world, but it's pretty clean considering.
That black piece is just particle board sprayed with bed liner. I had though about just doing the whole back area with that, but opted for the benefits of carpet.

I'm planning on putting in a platform that will rest on the wheel wells and cover the entire back area. I cut the wood, but need to go get a two by twelve (or maybe two by ten) and more carpet to cover that before this will be considered "finished". I'm open to any ideas at this point.

Those seats are from a Mini Cooper:

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I picked those up from a semi-local speed shop that does custom seat installations. Some Mini owner is darting around town will a new set of Recaros. These ran me $75 and are in pretty good shape, not perfect, but much better than my ripped/worn out stock seats.

They line up width wise and bolted to the stock brackets without any drilling at all. Not by chance, but still a bit lucky.

That's it for now. I'll try to add a few more pictures of some of the carpet seems. Hope this is useful in some way. For the most part it was pretty easy. I'm way happy I did it; my Raider's even more fun to drive now.



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