Mustangbelle,
I don't think I'd fool with removing the sound deadener either. I did toss out all the old stuff and cleaned the floor down to the bare metal. I got some new ACC carpet from Texas Mustang (medium grey). The new stuff comes with sound deadener on under it.
pony_power_90 and
82 GT,
Forgive me for being so slack and not taking more recent pictures. Okay. Here are some I took when the cage was fitted in (minus the 2 diagonal side bars). BTW, I got my cage from S&W racing and decided to leave out the 2 cross bars that go to the transmission hump (trying to relieve some weight, but I think those bars help ALOT if the car ever rolls).
Some more advice: TRY TO PAINT AS MUCH OF THE CAGE AS POSSIBLE B4 YOU PUT IT IN THE CAR!!!!! It ain't fun trying to paint it after it's all been welded in.
That's what I'm doing now (well, last night). If I could've done it over, I would've AT LEAST primered it b4 fitting/welding it. Another thing: After you get it welded in, try to jump on wirebrushing the welds, cleaning them off a little and primering and painting them. With mild steel, you can't wait to long or it'll start rusting. There where certain spots on mine which I had to brush mine down. What's that stinking thing called, the one where you put the round wire brush on the end of a drill and clean/polish/sand down metal to get top rust off???? Anyway, that's what made my night hard last night. I had to spend time cleaning off the bars, b/c it started to slightly rust. I had to do this of course b4 I started painting it. I got the primer on in the most important spots. But in any case try to do all this B4 you put the cage in the car (paint as much of the cage as you can cause it's hard to reach once it's in)
That's all I can think of right now (seems like I'm forgetting something-- but anyway...) Hope that helps a little.
Here are the pics. I wish I could've had some for you guys without the seats so you could see the interior better, but these are all I have. I was about to go outside right now and take some more and upload, but my brother took his camera with him to Atlanta, sooo
