Sound Dampening

Schimmel03 · 02-06-2005, 05:00 PM

Well, I decided this last week to insulate the inside of my car. I had read a writeup on the internet about it and ran out saturday and bought some of my own to give it a try. Its a duct vent insulation but has the same qualities as the more expensive sound damping material. Just cheaper. Anyhow, I found out that it is a lot easier to look at pictures and imagine doing it than doing it yourself.

Took about 5 hours to do the trunk. I plan on doing the interior but thats gonna be a while down the road. I'm still off work with my broken toe, so it gives me a lot of time to work on my car. which is nice because this next week I'll be starting the custom enclosure in the spare tire well. I'll post pictures of that later this week. Anyhow, heres the pictures from this weekend.

The trunk empty and clean. All ready to go!

And here it is after 5 hours of work. Lookin good!

And heres the way the trunk looks now. Not gonna stay like this for long.

(Jumper cables in winter... GREAT IDEA!! I don't need it, but you have no idea how many cars I end up jumping.)

I started on the trunk, but got tired and figured I'd do it this week sometime. Heres where it sits for now.

jackal2000 · 02-06-2005, 05:15 PM

looks nice and clean, good job. i should probably do something like that too. the dynomat on the underside of my trunklid isnt really working too well. <_<

FormulaNERD · 02-06-2005, 06:52 PM

yea, whats that duct insulation marketed as and where can you get it?

Schimmel03 · 02-06-2005, 07:02 PM

I picked it up at Lowes. Its called Frost King. It comes in a roll 15'x 1'. Cost me like $15 a roll. I bought 4 rolls and i have almost 2 rolls left.

FormulaNERD · 02-06-2005, 07:40 PM

sounds good, i may rip the whole interior of the car out and do the entire inside

02-06-2005, 07:42 PM

so far im sold on this....but the true test comes when u test the sub in your trunk...let us know if you notice a difference in quality of sound, if theres less rattling, etc....

eag182 · 02-06-2005, 08:06 PM

Did you encounter wetness in the spare tire well?

Schimmel03 · 02-07-2005, 12:20 AM

Well, I had the chance to test it tonight. I hear a lot less rattling in the trunk, and a lot more pressure inside. Although I think things are starting to rattle a bit more inside. I may be forced to do the inside sooner than I had planned. Anyhow, eag182, I didn't notice any wetness in the trunk. I'm going to start my custom enclosure tommorow, so I should have pics of that up later tommorow night.

cherrington17 · 02-07-2005, 08:56 AM

wow, i was personally thinking of dynomatting my trunk (and kicking myself due to cost) but i think you just changed my mind.

effective and cheap. i like it!

Mr_White · 02-07-2005, 07:47 PM

What I want to know is how the hell did you get your self in the trunk.

FormulaNERD · 02-07-2005, 10:16 PM

i'm 6'5 and i could sleep (almost) comfortably in my trunk... it's bigger than you think.

Schimmel03 · 02-07-2005, 10:28 PM

I'm 5'8" and I was able to crawl all over inside the trunk without any problems. Not to mention I was able to do all of this with a broken toe.

Mr_White · 02-08-2005, 02:16 AM

Im 6'1" 225 and just seeing you in that trunk makes me feel cloisterphobic.(spelling?) :unsure:

cherrington17 · 02-08-2005, 09:40 AM

i've been locked in a trunk smaller then ours...

damn older brother....

02-23-2005, 02:19 PM

I was just wondering if anyone has done this to the entire car? And if you have do you think it was worth it? Another question is whether or not you think this would quiet down my slp exhaust noise on the inside. I drive back and forth to school (which is mostly highway driving) a lot and as much as i love the sound on the outside, the inside is getting a little annoying.

Thanks

02-23-2005, 03:07 PM

hey man, off topic but how hard does that set up hit.....im thinkin about changing my set up to that exact 15......how are the lows? let me know what you think and how many watts rms you got powering it.........thanks

Schimmel03 · 02-23-2005, 03:48 PM

I've had my sub for about 2 years now and I'm still in love with it. Mostly because I'm not throwing insane amounts of power to it so I can adjust it between sound quality when I want and earth shaking bass when I feel like that. Most of thats done through my pioneer headunit but the sub is the 15" Kicker CompVR powered by a Kicker KS 400.1.

02-23-2005, 04:25 PM

how do you get that stuff to stick and what not?? its lookin like i might handle this, this weekend.......seeing as how i want that sub in a couple months......i want to lose some trunk weight and figure one 15 instead of my 2 10's will shave some weight......and save some space too.....

02-24-2005, 01:51 PM

Nice work, I didnt notice any rattle noise from the under side of my trunk, so I did not do that. All the rattle that I experience came from the deck lid, and the rear panel on the trunk that the license plate goes on. I took that thing off and put hushmat behind everything including the lights. The top of the trunk lid still has a little rattle, but its due to the pressure from 3 1000 watt amps and 3 10's in a big f***ing box! I will be sealing off the front of my box so that no air pressure gets in the trunk. THe front doors are going to be a BITCH to put material on, I'm not looking forward to it

GJ Though.

eag182 · 03-04-2005, 03:08 PM

Just noticed...when reffering to sound you mean sound damping. The guy at Gagt would be mad.