I was wondering if anyone has ever bought those pre-molded carpet sets? Is there any to stay away from? Where would be a good place to get some? Any help is appreciated!

At last years Nationals I ordered from Legendary an interior kit plus carpet for my Barracuda. Carpet was shipped in an ACC (Auto Custome Carpet) box. IINM everyone gets them from ACC.

What are you looking to get carpet for? I have some black carpet out of a low mileage 71 duster (30K miles auto on column) that I would be willing to part with. Carpet is in Northern Illinois (Sterling area)..email if interested bohmer2 at madisontelco.com

Brian

Brian, I appreciate the offer, but I need Gold colored carpet. Thanks, Brian.

I ended up doing it myself when I couldn't get the color I needed in the premolded sets (red, but all the premolded red's were more like maroon).

Got the carpet at a local upholstery supply shop and then cut to fit.

It's not molded, but I think it came out better than any set you could buy.


See

http://edsvitilspot.multiply.com/photos ... estoration

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64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

hello sl6 sages- need a molded carpet for my 76 feather duster with factory 4spd od floorshift. will any duster carpet work. just had the ventilated floor welded up and need a blackcarpet. dont want to go to the cleaners for it. where is the best place to go and how much should i expect to pay. maybe the DI would know. regards paladin

Need to get the carpet for a stickshft car, since the tranny hump is so large in stick cars.

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Call any of your reputable vendors ( Paddock, Legendary, etc) and tell them what you need and what color, provide a credit card and you'll have your pre-molded carpet pretty quick. They are all going to order it from ACC.

I'm a bare beginner at this, but I have a tip. A local auto upholstery specialist told me he uses "those" spray adhesives. At Ace hardware I found and bought 3M's Foam Fast (type 74) spray adhesive. With it you can put together just about anything in the way of carpet and some other things too.

You can do a lot of slitting and snipping and gusseting to make stuff fit and glue it together as you want it. Just don't get so cut-happy you cut out too much and leave gaps in the coverage. Altho I did do that in one place. I later cut a sliver and glued into the gap. You can't even see it. But you must be VERY careful where you put the glue. Or be very good at cleaning it off the finished product.

Is it any good? The upholstery guy told me you would tear the carpet before you pulled the glue loose. I assumed he was exaggerating, but this stuff begins where contact cement leaves off. Going back to a test piece a couple days later I found his statement to be true. I couldn't pull it apart.

I have no clue whether 74 is the best or the worst, but it more than does the job for me (disclaimers all around). I did find that the foaming action can be a problem if you're trying to glue something that isn't breathable. Good sized bubbles can rise up, cover the area underneath and slow the drying. I burst the bubbles until no more appear.

The thing I found doing my little bit of carpet work was to just keep pushing the stuff to where you want it. The pictures of the red carpet job (sorry I don't remember the author's name) show how you can fold pleats into the corners. I don't recall if it showed anything about cutting the excess out of the pleats or even if he did. But you can (and usually should) obviously make more than one cut per "corner."

If you take the time you can be surprisingly successful.

hello again sl6 sages- i love the way this forum always has excellent technical answers right away to ponderous questions,my own included. on the 3m glue for the carpet. im not sure it is a good idea to glue the carpet down; getting itup might be a real mess if you have to remove thecarpet for any reason. i dont think the original equipment was glued. in any event, it appears the best way to get a new one for my floorshift duster is to order a custom molded one from this ACC outfit. how do i get in contact with them and where are they located. experience seems to be good. this way i can eliminate the middle man. remember themiddle man? regards and thanks paladin

WHOAAAAA! I guess I wasn't at all clear. I'm not talking about gluing carpet down.

When you push carpet into corners you get all kinds of folds and overlaps. I cut out the excess overlaps, leaving maybe an inch or an inch and a half of overlap down to nothing at the bottom of the cut (or cuts). I glue the top of the back part of the overlap, being careful not to get any out in a visible place. (Maybe gluing the back of the outside layer would be better, but I found that messier than gluing the back layer. You don't want glue showing on the edges of the carpet.

Then I push that area back into the corner carefully holding the "glue joint" apart. When I get it fitted into place, then I push the joint together and hold it for a little while. I "re-push" it every now and then to make sure it is stuck well.

No I don't suppose factories glue them. They don't have to if they're molded. The process I'm discribing is, in essence, molding one yourself, in place.

I did one tranny hump in 3 pieces. I fitted the right and left foot wells in first. Then I cut a piece to go over the top and fit down the sides of the hump overlapping (and glued to) the edges of the floor pieces, binding it together into one piece. Actually on that one I had the edges of the center piece bound before putting it in.

Legendary may be the way to go. If you buy through year one you'll
pay to much. I have been told that Legendary supplies all the interior
for year one. Just my .02

JC Whitney = $149.00 for ACC molded carpet

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To get the molded carpet to settle down properly, I use a heat gun to warm up the carpet(don't scorch it!) and mold it into place. This helps create a tighter fit and allows the carpet to conform to all of the ridges, bumps, and shapes in the floorboard.

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My glued together job looks good and cost me $6 USD for carpet from Lowes.

Not restoration, but looks great.