anyone seen really "clean" and aesthetically pleasing stripped interiors?
 

I look at the Lotus and I want to pull the carpet:
http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-20...r-1280x960.jpg
but its usually really ugly in a miata. Thoughts?

Part of the attraction is that nice smooth floor was always intended to be uncovered. Ours has drain holes, grommets, uneven surfaces, etc. Ours uncovered looks like you "pulled the carpet out".

If you wanted to be cool you could pull the carpet and cut some aluminum panels to fit the floor and box the tunnel so it at least looks like it was intended to be that way. Take a look at the factory five roadsters to see what they do to make a plain aluminum interior look purpose-built.

Meh...too much weight.

OK, then just pull the carpet out and have a gutted car.

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pull the carpet and paint the floor with porch paint or rhino liner

Sell miata.
Buy lotus.

Problem motherfucking solved

You're missing about $50,000-$70,000 in there.

Nah they're going for <$30k around here.

used

+1 for rhino liner

I have some pictures at home I can post later. It can look good, but only if you paint the interior. Otherwise it just looks race car good.

Do it.

I straight up copied the targa car intertior with the gutted dash when i did a complete respray on my track car. I sprayed it inside and out, so now the inside has smooth paint and looks pretty damn good if you ask me.

I will get some pictures here in a bit. I have all my toys up here at the shop so shouldn't take long. :)

In for the pics

Carpet doesn't really weigh that much once all the other stuff has been taken out. I kept my carpet because it looked better that way:

http://www.lightweightmiata.com/beast/craigslist/12.jpg

+1

Sizzling your leg isn't fun either.

+1 And it doesn't rattle and buzz like you are riding in an old Jeep (sorry pdexta). And Hustler's car is already faster than a Lotus, so what's the problem?

You need to leave the carpet in just to be able to say you beat those arrogant bastards in a Miata with a full interior and not a gutted "race car." That gets you maximum props and gives them maximum shame. Plus you drive long distances sometimes (Little Rock) and carpet keeps noise resonance down and also keeps shit from sliding around so much.

yeah, I just looked on lightweight miata and changed my mind.

Faster than an exige s-260...we'll see this weekend.

This fits the bill I think. One I have always liked and want to do when I get a 90-93 car. Functional and still looks great to me. It was someone on m net, may be someone on here, don't know.

In for a ride in the lotus.

Chris

LOVE IT...clean as hell. I'd throw some custom thin carpeting in there (just to keep it from being an oven and burning me) and rock that every day.

Carpet doesn't insulate well-enough. I managed burn my pinkie-toe on the first track day. However I drive with my pinkie toe out, the same way I drink wine. :giggle:

And that center support bar would be the PERFECT place for a custom double pod gauge setup. Functional and simple, yet beautiful. Lose the ugly wheel and put some nice pedals in it and that interior would be EVERYTHING I would want out of a Miata. Oh, and to top it off, thats in an NB if I'm not mistaken.:cjerk:

WOW just WOW!!! :giggle:

The bottom of that car is rhino lined, then sprayed red.

With a lot of elbow grease you can make it look decent. There are years and years of grime under the carpet and it takes effort to make it look good again.

why not just get the rhino sprayed in the right color? they can custom mix it.

Car is for sure an OBD-II car. The digital toy under the dash is called a ScanGauge. I have one mounted on my steering column in my daily.

Car looks nice w/ the rhino + spray paint though. Rhino alone would be a ROYAL PITA to clean dirt out of (unless you have no shame in taking a garden hose to it...). I'd for sure use a topcoat of paint if I was rhino'ing my interior.

That would surely be tougher than a sprayed color over the top. Damn, I really want to do this, but can't allow it on my car.

Sorry Hustler, that was the picture I was going to post. There's that, sav's, mine, and the targa. Sav's is more of a worst case scenario though.

k I lied. I just tried cleaning mine and it still looks like shit. You basically have to paint it to make it look decent.

I like that one! I wonder whos car it is?

My mailman did this with his old 88 F250 after he redid the body and swapped in a new powerstroke trubo. That trucks badass, had it done in red. Looks matte red from a distance, when you get up close it looks very clean and well done. Not a lot of texture, just enough. Slightly dent resistant too, kinda like a soviet car.. :giggle:

ooh I like that one too, I'm saving that one.

Hustler, it's honestly really hard to do without being a full out race car. That red one gets the closest. But the heat off the tranny tunnel is too much for prolonged street driving. Best fix is to put carpet over it. And then the floor boards are the ugliest part, and if you paint it they'll get scratched up with all the furious foot work at the track, so you're back to square one. I honestly think the best way to do it would be buying an Ebay carpet set that has no holes cut in it, so you can make the shifter hole smaller and clamp it under the shifter boot, no holes where the center console used to be, etc, etc. Stripped, light, but livable.

I ripped my carpet out, cleaned and painted the floor. But i put it back the next week becasue of the amount of heat. Dammmnnn it got hot in there! I wonder if theres a way to cover the tranny tunnel from underneath to keep the heat away. I did like the look tho. And it made me feel like my car was a 11 sec maita. lol!

slutz4 on clubroadster.net has a real clean stripped interior

guyssss put the thermal insulation on the BOTTOM of the tranny tunnel. you can buy the mats that fit up in there somewhere. there was a pic that begi posted a while back of one.

Link or pics so I don't have to sift through that site because I am lazy?

sorry im lazier ;)

White stripped interiors always look fantastic when they are clean. White is such a forgiving color. All the dimples, ribs, imperfections hide really well with white, just like white exteriors. I see a lot of race cars with misc. exterior colors but the interior is painted white. White is neutral enough it's easy to use black, aluminum, red or other colors as trim to make it look more finished like the Lotus.

I painted my 72 Colt racecar interior Ford tractor grey. It looked good in an industrial, utilitarian way. Kinda like the Lotus in the original pic but more grey than silver. I think it hid dirt better than white would.

That is mainly - I heard - because everything shows on white: cracks in the floor for example.

I love the white interior in my car. With one exception: The glare on the windshield is pretty bad. I don't have a dashboard, which exacerbates the problem. So I am thinking about repainting the interior in a darker, flat color.

Here is the inside of the track car I am building. Sorry for the crappy pics, but my phone is all I have right now at the shop.

http://i27.tinypic.com/345dmjp.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/of2ekj.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/vdd55f.jpg

I got really bored at the shop so I acquired more projects and took all my miatas up here to play with. I think i may start the locost soon if things stay slow.
http://i29.tinypic.com/24eqhcn.jpg

^ That looks great! Did you hide all of the wiring tucked under the dash, or did you remove a lot of it? I have to not be broke so I can find myself a Miata to strip for a track car.

I didn't want to mess with cutting wires out so i just tucked them up. It was actually quite easy. I will take some pictures of the wiring and put them up.

Man that car's gonna be a blast!

I'm thinking about making a fiberglass case for the MS touchscreen and putting that in the space left by the radio/vents. Its a small screen and would add maybe 4lbs. It would be something cool.

I also painted that car right where it stands now. Got a little dust in the top coat of the paint but that sanded right out. Not bad for $200 with PPG paint.

That screen probably would weigh as much as all the eight guages it would replace.

Good lookin' paint job.

Looks like we're on for next Sat. to tune. Lookin' forward to seeing this thing in person.


On interiors:

I find it funny that I'm swinging by to pick up carpet...all the while debating making my interior look like that.

See Miata here: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2909526

:giggle: Yeah. Well as thats my only car, I can't strip it and race it. Especially now that I'm not employed. One day when I'm back on my feet, I will find a 90-93 to strip.

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