should i do no headliner?

[WipEout]

You could ditch it and chalk it up to racing needs, but is a headliner really that heavy? When I tore my old one out to paint my car, I couldn't honestly tell you it weighed more than a few pounds, and that seems sort of excessive. That would only equal, like, a couple-hudredths of a second on a track, right? Once I install my new headliner, I'm gonna insulate the hell outta my roof and doors and such, since I will have a stereo system in there and no heating system. But like Zen said, you need to look at your application and let that make the majority of the decision. If it's a race car only but you want it to look good still (and who doesn't?) then clean out the roof area, liner, glue, and all. Otherwise, I would get a new liner, at least.





DAVID MANN

It's been a while, eh?

[super vw]

ya i know its a little exccesive as far as weight goes, but its more of a cost issue than weight for me. It would cost more to buy a new headliner and have it instaled (im not good that that kinda thing) than to just spray it with paint or MAYBE truck bed liner stuff like line-x. it might even look cool with that line-x stuff to?
one of my dads friends sprayed that kinda stuff in the rear passeneger area of his 76 911(wide body) and it looks clean...

[chigger]

I think the Euro cars or standards only had a headliner only in the middle of the roof between the humps along the edges. The deluxes or most of the American cars had the headliner all the way across an down the pillars. The high tech stick on insulation with a light headliner cover only in the middle would be nice to keep some summer heat out, give a finished appearance, help the sound system from reflecting off the roof, and still be light weight.

[Jeza]

No headliner is unbelievably noisey!!

Unless you drive your car as a weekend warrior only or race it I'd keep at least the centre section, and make it fabric. The idea is to stop the noise bouncing around, so carbon wont help with this, you need something soft, not hard.

jhelgesen do you have pic's of your headliner. This is what I wish to do, centre section only.

As for the metal clips on the door frame that used to hold the liner, I've covered them with some rubber strip (has a U cross section shape to it) as Rob mentioned, it looks really good.

Jeremy

[MattKab]

How ugly would my Kab look with no headliner? I'm too old (28) to worry about weightloss

I transfered a 'postage stamp' headliner to my export deluxe Baja, no problem, you'll really feel the blood flow suffer in your finger tips when removing/installing, if you can find one!

TMI?