I like to think my box as race car inspired. I want it to have a somewhat raw feel to it. One of those things was the upgrade to coilovers. The next will be to lose what I consider unnecessary weight. My box is still a street car so I don't want to go all spec car on it and ditch all the interior. I've decided to strip almost all the insulation and trunk/frunk plastic & carpet. The trunks are easy. Just yank it! The interior carpet pieces are a little harder. They have a foam and some small pieces of Styrofoam bonded to the back. To get it off the back I used two methods. Sometimes you can pull it off and it stays together. It's similar to skinning an animal when it peels off. Most of the time it comes off in chunks. The other quicker way is to use a grinder with a wire cup attachment. The wire wheel makes quick work of the foam, but is VERY messy. You also need to make sure you don't grind into the carpet too much. It only took about an hour to remove the foam from the back. You might ask "Does the foam really weigh that much?" Yes and no. If it's completely dry, then it probably doesn't weigh that much. But that foam soaks in moisture and it's nearly impossible to get out. I've tried vacuuming wet carpet with a very powerful shop vac and couldn't get it out. Once you get your carpet really wet, about the only way to get it out is to drive over it with a steam roller. My box got wet in May and sat the whole dry/hot Texas summer protected from getting wet again. It still had some water I could squeeze out of the foam. I'm not trying to scare anyone into worry about moisture in their carpet. From what I see, it doesn't seem to cause too much damage if it's a little wet. My only advice is if you some how get your interior wet, take your carpet out and get as much of the water out. Don't assume it will dry on it's own. I would also let it air out for as long as you can but not in the sun. The foam doesn't like sun. If you do this, not everything will sit nice and pretty like it did. There's some cross bracing on the floor board that will cause a lump.
I also removed all the insulation from around the engine compartment
I also removed the top motor and transmissions. An idea taken from sassmatt72 was to use a trunk latch to keep the clam shell from rattling. I went with it and have gotten to this point before I ran out of time. I used the motor mounting bracket and only need to weld a brace.
