Cutting carpet to hide seat tracks

[RAMBOW]

There is a sticky thread over on Team chevelle about this...
http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236734

The factory cut the carpets in our cars a certain way to hide the seat track feet- But 99% of cars out there have this done incorrectly now after carpets have been replaced and just by pulling and then re-installing the seat over the top of the carpet.

When i went to pull my bucket seats i realized that my car still had the original carpet in it with these cool cuts, so after i got it all out out i took some pics, then replicated the cuts in the new carpet.

1st.. Photo of my cars original carpet, with the seat track cuts in it.
I highlighted the cuts in red. Green dots are the locations of the studs or bolts.


Closeup of the result, hidden seat track foot.


And cause i'm proud of myself, full shot showing my newly recovered seats, and the new carpet.


Sure looks better than an ugly metal track foot sitting ontop of the carpet! :yes:

Hope this helps some folks here too!

[Yellowstatue]

Nice job Rambow thats about the same way I do mine, took me about twelve hours to do my wife's carpet and put the interior back in!!

[Lady72nRob71]

Awesome job! Pat yourself on the back a few times...
Yes I went through this same thing when i did my carpet. Of course I had to add extra jute to make it sit right.
The right cutting at the seat legs is a perfect finishing detail, and I think i had also made a thread here about that early this year.

So what's next??

[RAMBOW]

Back to crusing & tuning... this last three weeks of downtime has been too much for me.

I have have a Holley 650dp sitting on my workbench that needs to be rebuilt before i slap it on, and i still need to figure out what the timing on this thing is doing... I plan to take it to the track once or twice this year in its current form with the 330/3spd/3.23 gears, but i want it to be performing the best it can.

BTW... I have used ACC carpets in the past and had the same bulging problems that had to be filled using extra jute also...

This time, i got the carpet from TRIM PARTS, which bought up the only competitor to ACC, Detrioit Carpet a couple years back.

This carpet fit 100% better than the ACC ones. It does not float over the tranny hump, there was tons of extra material front, rear & sides, the moldin in 4spd hump even fell where right over the hump!

If ordering another carpet set, i would forget ACC and try trim parts next time!