installing carpet in a race car

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moparraceman

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putting carpet around the bars from your roll cage, is hard to do, at least for me i cant cut a round hole ,and i want to make it neat looking thought about doing the best i could then putting something rd with a 13/4 hole in it , to cover up ,any ideas ?
 
If the carpet, hasn't been installed where your roll cage is, try this. 1# figure where you want the hole to be. #2 Using a piece of the roll cage material, (about 6" or more if you have any, or a piece of similar pipe diameter.) Sharpen, to a knife edge, the circumference of one end of the pipe. #3 place the carpet on a piece of stout wood and center your sharpened pipe on your mark. Give the pipe a good whack with a heavy hammer until the sharpened pipe cuts through the carpet. #4 From the closest edge of the carpet, from the new hole, cut a straight cut to the edge of the hole. You can now lay the carpet back down, passing the roll cage through the cut you made, allowing the hole in the carpet to go around the roll cage neatly. If your cut is made from the carpet backing, without touching the carpet's knap, when you lay it down, butting the cut edges tightly together, you will hardly see the split.
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Don't know how much this will help you but when I want to cut shapes in carpet I heat up (like red hot) a really large nail that I have with my hand held torch and it cuts carpet like butter. Melts the edges too so no fray. Stinks tho..
 
Here's what Kitty said. So you better listen. LMAO. She says......say the center of the bar where it meets the floor is 4" from the carpet edge. She says measure 4" in even with the bar front to back on the carpet. Then cut a slit going in from the edge all the way to where the inside of the bar would be. Then, back up half the diameter of the bar and cut a perpendicular slit making an X. Just a suggestion. I would use the absolute sharpest "thing" I could find if you go that route to keep frayed edges to a minimum.
 
Take a old piece of roll bar to the grinder sharpen the end like a razor put it on the carpet and hit it with a hammer, a perfect hole punch.
 
I always use the hot knife attachment on my butane soldering iron to cut carpet. It melts the edges so they don't fray. The sharpened tubing is also a good idea, i think I would sharpen it by grinding the ID so the OD dimension stays right, then heat it up with a torch and press through the carpet.
 
Take a old piece of roll bar to the grinder sharpen the end like a razor put it on the carpet and hit it with a hammer, a perfect hole punch.

What if the bar is already welded in and assembled? That was my assumption. Maybe I was assumptin wrong.
 
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