Cut rear mat for sub?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Redondo Beach Ca
Cut rear mat for sub?
I recently installed a jl stealth box with the screened cover. It sounds great. I decided to cover that with a lloyd's mat with the emblem. I think it looks much better with the mat. The problem is the mat muffles alot of the sub. Has anyone customized their mat? I thought about cutting a small section out and sewing in some kind of black mesh material? Any ideas ?
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Melting Slicks
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Le Mans Master
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the process you are looking for is called 'surging' (sp?) you should be able to go to any carpet store and they'll be able to hook you up. surging is different from 'binding' that you traditionally see on carpeting. Binding uses a piece of cloth that is sewn onto the ends of the carpet to keep it from falling apart. surging is the process of taking thread and coiling it around the end...to keep it from falling apart.
hope this helps. i'd try your luck with the search engine, i know this question has been asked before and people have posted pictures.
hope this helps. i'd try your luck with the search engine, i know this question has been asked before and people have posted pictures.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Redondo Beach Ca
the process you are looking for is called 'surging' (sp?) you should be able to go to any carpet store and they'll be able to hook you up. surging is different from 'binding' that you traditionally see on carpeting. Binding uses a piece of cloth that is sewn onto the ends of the carpet to keep it from falling apart. surging is the process of taking thread and coiling it around the end...to keep it from falling apart.
hope this helps. i'd try your luck with the search engine, i know this question has been asked before and people have posted pictures.
hope this helps. i'd try your luck with the search engine, i know this question has been asked before and people have posted pictures.
Thanks. I basically got the idea in my head, but I'd like too see one if someone has done it. I enter my car in the occasional show and want it to look professional. If not I could normally leave the mat out (put it in just 4 shows), but I don't think it looks as good without the mat and I assume the mat does a little dampening of heat as well as sound.
Drifting
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From: Gurley, Alabama
Thanks. I basically got the idea in my head, but I'd like too see one if someone has done it. I enter my car in the occasional show and want it to look professional. If not I could normally leave the mat out (put it in just 4 shows), but I don't think it looks as good without the mat and I assume the mat does a little dampening of heat as well as sound.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Redondo Beach Ca
There was someone on here the other day that did it where they cut the mat to fit under the cover. I don't want to cut that much of the mat. I'm thinking something like the size of a shoebox cover. I recently saw a pic of a mat for an frc and it looked like it was made where the cover was still accessable like normal, similar maybeto the cut I heard about?
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