Floor (without carpet) pics please

Porsche virgin · 09-01-2006, 06:45 AM

All,
My driver's side floor mat is practically falling apart. I don't want to buy a new one (in fact I may take out all of the carpeting at some point for weight reasons). Under the mat is the floor, and the metal floor has some sort of sound-deadening material covering it, maybe a couple of mm thick. That stuff is cracking and coming off. I'd like to chip the rest of it off, but what do I put on the floor? Keep the bare metal? Put in one of those Rennline aluminum plates? I was thinking about putting down that black grippy tape sort of stuff that can sometimes be found on stairs (jeez I didn't explain that well at all).

If you don't have carpet, could you please post some interior pics?

Thanks.

Oh, and I just bought the Rennline alum. drilled floorboard, which will go in this weekend. (I still can't believe they put wood down there!)

ncseahawk · ncseahawk's Garage

ZLP · ZLP's Garage

Here's mine

Porsche virgin · 09-01-2006, 07:26 AM

ncseahawk, Are you going to leave it like that?
ZLP, looks great. Did you chip off the sound-deadending material or did your car have none? Any concerns about dents/scratches in the floor?

ZLP · ZLP's Garage

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Originally posted by Porsche virgin
ncseahawk, Are you going to leave it like that?
ZLP, looks great. Did you chip off the sound-deadending material or did your car have none? Any concerns about dents/scratches in the floor?

Yes, I used a torch and a sharpened putty knife to scrape everything off. I was A LOT of work to do(ask anyone else who has done it). This is what I started with:

randywebb · 09-01-2006, 02:42 PM

I don't seem to have anything on the floor - in a '73 - at least in the front compartment.

What year cars are people finding all this hard to remove gunk in??

Az911 · 09-01-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by randywebb
I don't seem to have anything on the floor - in a '73 - at least in the front compartment.

What year cars are people finding all this hard to remove gunk in??

Pull up some of the carpet and you will find it. I stripped all of it out of my 72T.

ZLP · ZLP's Garage

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Originally posted by Az911
Pull up some of the carpet and you will find it. I stripped all of it out of my 72T.

And you wish it was all puuurty like mine!!

randywebb · 09-01-2006, 04:51 PM

no - it is bare metal under the carpet

Todd Simpson · 09-01-2006, 05:13 PM

The early cars had a glued on rubbery horsehair kind of stuff. Perfect for trapping moisture.

The later cars have a thin asphalt(?) style that comes off in big flat chunks.

I couldn't tell you when they switched over. My two points of reference are my '71 and my '83.

DUK · 09-01-2006, 06:26 PM

Just finishing some things up and took some pics, so I thought I'd add them here.

Porsche virgin · 09-01-2006, 06:55 PM

Duke, That looks great. Dark, but great.
ZLP, you needed a torch? My stuff is just chipping right off. In big chunks just like Todd said.

Thanks all for the pics.