new carpet/accelerator question

[MarcD]

Installing carpet in my '63 Dart GT; the interior was pretty gutted when I bought the car, so I have no frame of reference for how the carpet fits at the accelerator pedal. Search of this forum yielded a helpful post about carpet interfering with WOT, but not the issue I'll describe below.

The pedal pivots from the bottom on a pin through a u-shaped bracket fastened by two bolts through the floorpan. Should the carpet be cut with two slits and installed over the bracket so the two ends of the "u" protrude, and replace the pedal? Seems like it might be pretty tight. Cutting out the entire area around the bracket could look pretty messy.

The other option would be to remove the u-shaped bracket, install the carpet, then bolt the bracket on top of the carpet. Looks like the rubber at the base of the pedal would conceal the bracket and attaching bolts.

The carpet kit is from ACC, by the way, and I ordered the extra mass backing. Very good looking carpet, and the heat-molding for the four-speed hump is really nice.

Thanks for a great forum!

 

[MarcD]

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[ssba]

I would put the bracket in after carpet is in place.

 

[68 CUDA FORMULA S]

Hey MarcD, when I installed the carpet in my 66 I tried the two slits in the u bracket but then you can not put the lock clip back on to hold the pin in place and the accelerator pedal keeps falling off. So I tried to put the u bracket through the carpet and mount it that way but the carpet is to thick and you can not bolt it down. When I took the old carpet out there was a small square flap cut in the carpet from the factory where the u clip is bolted right to the floor and the small flap was behind the u clip. So when I did it that way everything worked out just fine. I just marked the u clip mounting area on the carpet, cut it on the three sides, I then assembled the accelerator pedal flap up between the u clip and the firewall and bolted it down. Hope this helps, mine works just fine now. By the way my carpet was from ACC also.
Bob

 

[MarcD]

Hey 66 Cuda...thanks for the very complete reply to my question! Your mention of the cutout in the factory carpet is the key to getting this done about as right as it can get. I was hoping that bolting down the bracket through the carpet would help secure the carpet in a place where I really don't want it to slip around (under the accellerator!) but I now see that the studs in the u-shaped piece are too short to allow that. Cutting a flap in the carpet will work just as well!

Thanks again,
Marc