those are factory holes... they are there in case your engine stops running so you can Fred Flintstone yourself home...

 

Mine gets hot from the automatic trans. I see yours is a stick so it might not be as much of a problem. The places that will get hot from the exhaust is just in front of the passenger front seat from the cat converter and the rear passenger floor from the muffler. You could make heat shields though. My floor mats haven't melted but I did double layer them in the front cause m fiance' complained about the floor getting hot. I cut the carpet about an inch from the floor so it shouldn't ever get wet if I get water inside. Really, your carpet probably got soaked just because of the holes in the floor.

 

Ah yours wasnt to rusty LOL.
We should wheel sometime beings ur not far.

 

I'm afraid of pulling my carpet because im pretty sure that's what my "floors" look like also lol

 

Literally that is what it felt like. Its not an easy feeling putting your feet places and knowing there was nothing below it.

I would def say the water was from the floors. I didn't want to keep any of the carpet inside. Its not my daily driver and I am not concerned about noise with no doors and a loud muffler. The only reason ALL the carpet got pulled was I could not take the smell. The moldy smell was absolutely terrible. I would drive the jeep to work or around town and come home and have that smell on me. I even went as far as taking the seat covers off of the seats and machine washing all the covers to get rid of the smell.

Damn. I will tell you what though I knew the carpet was holding the interior together.

Any time you want to go hit me up. I won't be up and running for another week. I have a bad u joint in my front drive line some where and I have to figure that out.

Just do it. If its not your daily driver gut the interior and just get it done. You could really knock this out in a weekend if you had an extra set of hands.

 

How much did the whole project cost you? It looks like an awesome job, and my wallet doesn't want to buy the factory floorboards...

 

My carpet weighed way over a hundred pounds. it was soaked and disgusting . I love having no carpet now. If it gets muddy after a trail ride you just hose/powerwash it out. I only have 1/2 holes for drains in the low spots on my floor. I want to go to a boat shop and get some hull plugs,the ones that are the quick release type

 

Some one else pm'd me asking so here is what I came up with...
This is only a guestimate...

Resin 1 gallon=2x $30
Fiberglass= 1.5oz mat maybe 6 yards @ $2.75/yd
17 oz Biax maybe 5 yards @ $6.60/yd

Flashing, rivets, roof cement= roughly $25

Around $135

I ordered a bunch of other fiberglass because I am doing some things to my jet ski and I have to repair one of the corners of the cargo area in the jeep still.

I would order a little more to make sure you don't run out.

In reality you can probably get away with not using the chop mat. I like using chop because it allows a good base layer because it soaks up resin really nice. Its also nice to use in corners because you can just tear pieces off and wet out corners.

Also if your going to do this make sure you get polyester resin vs epoxy. Epoxy resin does not have any heat ratings where as the polyester resin I used is good up to 200 something degrees.

I bought everything from uscomposites.com out of florida

 

I know the ones you are talking about.

I was going to look for some at a pool supply store because they are more of the plug style, but the ones you are talking about are nice. I almost want to put in scupper drains in mounted from below the floor.