Carpeting a caged cabin for street and strip

Oct 16, 2026 Last reply: 3 hours ago 4 Replies
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The usual route with a welded roll cage is to leave the cabin bare and accept the noise, so it is refreshing to see the maker go the other way and finish this interior properly. The car makes nearly 1,000 hp and is meant as a fair weather driver used on both the street and the strip, which makes the choice to treat it as a drivable car rather than a stripped racer an interesting one. In my view that seems like a smart way to get enjoyment out of it beyond track days.



The cabin has been lined with silver foil sound-deadening and heat insulation sheets across the floor pan, transmission tunnel, rear cab wall and ceiling. The material is Noico Pro 80 mil, and the carpet has already been cut and fitted around the cage. Apparently this was the first time the maker used this deadening, and they report being pretty happy with the result, which shows in the coverage.



Small touches stand out: a red and black woven paracord grab handle on the upper passenger-side roll bar, held with hook-and-loop straps, alongside a metal steering wheel, bare steering column mount and pedal assembly at the driver's station.



There is still work ahead. The deadening is done everywhere but the doors, weather stripping and door seals arrive the next day, the cage gets satin black paint over the coming weekend, and just a couple of holes remain to be made, with a trip back on the lift planned to check every hole was cut.


Securing a grab handle with hook-and-loop straps rather than hard-mounting it strikes me as a clever call. When the cage needs paint, as is planned here, the handle can come off without undoing brackets or drilling. The trade-off is that a strap attachment will never feel as permanently solid as a bolted fitting, but for something that mainly sits in the upper passenger area it looks like a reasonable balance.

Since only a couple of holes are left and the maker plans to raise the car on the lift to verify all of them, I am curious how the holes in the deadening are being positioned around the cage, floor fixtures and other mounting points. Is that done by marking through from underneath before the sheets go on, or by cutting after fitting?

The maker has not explained how the hole positions are marked or cut. What has been said is that the deadening is complete except for the doors, that only a couple of holes remain to be made, and that the car will go back on the lift to check that all holes were made. So the method behind it is not something we know right now.

Given that the cage is scheduled for satin black paint over the coming weekend, one idea would be to pull the hook-and-loop grab handle off before that job starts and refit it afterwards, so the paint lines around the straps stay clean. With the deadening already covering floor, tunnel, rear wall and ceiling, that is the one area where doing the untouched parts first could keep the finish tidy.

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