I've just installed a carpet kit from Pelican..The piece on the floor of the passenger side doesn't fit. Appears to be about 6"" short.
I contacted Pelican, and was told that it was correct, and that there is supposed to be a peice of hard moulded foam that takes up that space. I'm not sure if the foam is part of the kit , or is part of the car.
Not a big deal, but I would like it correct. Pic below.

your missing the passenger foam block foot rest

You are missing the foot rest. It is a molded piece of foam that goes behind the carpet on the passenger side. I took the footrest out of mine as well to make for more leg room. As a result, I am trying to find a kit that will fit sans the footrest. So far....no luck. Chances are I will have to have a local shop do all the carpeting.

Good luck and let me know if you find a kit that will fit without the footrest installed.

Yep you need the foam thing.
Anyone know where he can get one? I always thought it'd be cool to do a matching alumn one to go with my engman alumn pedal board w/ the holes in it
Kindda like this 911:

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Anyone know where he can get one?

just place an WTB ad in the classifieds...should be pretty cheap...I threw one away a few weeks ago....not a huge demand for them.....

you can also do a search for speaker enclosures here if you want to kill 2 birds with one stone

I think that we have an extra 72-76 footrest $15 plus shipping, they are a common part, you can find them cheap. Someone local to you might have one.

HIEDI

Well I would delete the other post .....If I knew how..

Deleted....thanks

Thanks for the replys guys.....That clears things up. If I can't find the foam piece I'll make something up no problem.

Footrest foam 72-76, Below is what you are looking for

sorry forgot to add pic

foam 70-71, they are all interchangable, but that will determine what year of carpet kit you need

i have one from a 76, im putting the early carpet in my car. $15+ shipping if you want it, xsboost90@yahoo.com

If you use a carpet kit for an earlier car will it fit a later car without the footrest? That would be fantastic.

I thought the "rare" foamy thingy only came in the '75 - '76 cars with an EGR counter and two piece speedo cable....

Just get an early carpet kit.........

Know where pretty much the only rust-through on my reasonable
formerly-mid-western car is? Bunch of pinholes under the dang
foam!

Be sure that area doesn't get wet or get POR-15.

QUOTE (MW 914 @ May 4 2005, 03:28 PM)

If you use a carpet kit for an earlier car will it fit a later car without the footrest?

I believe that the early cars still had the foam piece in the footwell. They had an extra moveable (and removable) footrest that was intended to make up for the non-movable passenger's seat. But I believe they still had the hard foam thing in the front corner of the passenger footwell.

--DD

Damn! I knew that would have been too easy.

QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ May 4 2005, 05:44 PM)

QUOTE (MW 914 @ May 4 2005, 03:28 PM) If you use a carpet kit for an earlier car will it fit a later car without the footrest? I believe that the early cars still had the foam piece in the footwell. They had an extra moveable (and removable) footrest that was intended to make up for the non-movable passenger's seat. But I believe they still had the hard foam thing in the front corner of the passenger footwell. --DD

Damnit Dave...now I gonna go tear apart my two '73s and two '74s and one '70 just to see.

My car is a 75. Is it supposed to have the footrest?
Pelican e-mailed me today. Apparently I glued the piece that was supposed to cover the footrest to the firewall. It fit there perfectly.
No big deal I have enough of the same carpet to make a piece to fill the gap.
The engine and tranny are going in tomorrow and if all goes well, and I'll be cruising by the weekend.

Your 75 should have the foam thing that we've been talking about. The footrest is a separate piece, and was only used on 70-71 cars. Not on 75s.

--DD

I just welded in the inner long chasis stiffening kit, and I DID have to remove the footwell foam from my '71 914. So yup, the early cars have foam too.

They all gots foam, and there are three styles. Small ones, big ones, and ones with EGR cutouts.

really! i bought a new style carpet kit from a company and i believe when i test fit it w/o the foam that it fit fine, i just figured i got an early kit so i will leave it out. W/ the foam it didnt fit right.

damn, I looked last night to see if I had an extra for you... I don't even have the one I will need when I start my morph. carpet install... sorry, man.