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It's coming through GSM performance, never heard anything about them so hopefully it'll be a painless process.
I'm thinking that the rear seats need to come out, mostly so that I'm never tempted to carry passengers in the back with a harness bar right in front of their faces. I'll be keeping the seatbelts and adding harnesses, but I don't want a fully stripped rear. I want it to be 'racecar for the road', so no bare metal.
Currently I'm exploring ways to mold carpet around foam for the sides and make a floor out of cardboard/lightweight wood. The idea being to remove everything behind the front seats, then create a smooth lightweight interior.
If anybody has experience of making custom carpeting for cars I'd love some advise!
Doing mine exactly the same by the sounds of it. Use a cardboard template and then the easiest way is to get you desired material (im using a thin plastic) and cut the outline. cover the boot and check it all fits, use a heat gun and slowly bend the plastic so it fits flush with the floor (where the seats previously was, and just before the rear shocks) to mould into position.
Measure the gaps you have around the outline (As plastic is bent and moulded it will be shorter in certain places) when you carpet the plastic take the measurements into mind and use a foam backing or something else more imaginative to seal the gap.
Im going to use foam al over as there is more likely to have defects in the plastic where its been heated. then carpet over the top.
Hope that helps buddy.