1. you could carve a chunk of styrafoam to "fill out" the shape of the
tunnel and support the carpet in its current shape, or...
2. you could carefully slit your carpet and create overlapping flaps that
would allow you to pull it tight over the complex shape of the tunnel.
Then you have to have some way to fasten the flaps down. I drilled the
tunnel for snaps. My tunnel carpet had to be "customized" since I
installed the 4-sync OD tranny in a Mk. 1 roadster. With a little
judicious extra padding I managed to get it quite tidy. The entire tunnel
carpet is fastened with snaps (the ring type, as in the floor carpet) so
I can mess with the shifter, etc, without tearing up glued-down carpet
(as I had to do the first time).
I can't describe precisely how the flaps should be cut (and of course, it
varies). Think of the back of an envelope or the bottom of a brown paper
bag.
Carl French had this to say:
>I am too cheap to buy the right carpet set and all I need is the trans
>piece which I got from my brother in great shape. The problem is that it
>is not preshaped for the early B step in the trans. so it bunches up aft
>of the shifter as it slopes down. Other than it is a great carpet piece.
>Any tips on taking out the folds? I would much rather fix what I have
>and save the $$ for other things.
>Carl F
>67B Really looking great again, it will be nice to have the dash in
>again this weekend!
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
Runs great,
looks particularly bad since some SUV clown backed into it.
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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