hey Metal, are you trying to build a audio show car, or is this for your own taste?

 

Maybe someday...my dream setup would be DLS Iridium 6.2s with Adire Audio Extremis 6.8 bass drivers as my active 3-way, with the Extremis being run by a 2500 XXK, the mids through a 4150 XXK, and the tweets through a 2100 XXK and a DXE Processor, but hell one can dream, right? What you will see in the next few weeks finishes my interior for good, next year I am doing the exterior work.

Thanks for the prasie, 2damax, it's always appreciated!

 

extremis 6.8's are sick. or so i've read.

 

bro MULTITASKFUL is not a word

 

No, it is... I read it in some mechanics instructional book. There was a mechanics vocab section right after the chapter about exhaust lines and condensation. =>

 

Jesus was this exhuasting. Ok, so the trunk is now fully lined with Damplifier, with two layers covering the wheel wells.

Here's a boring pic of the trunk all cleaned up and wiped down with some mineral spirits...



Fast-forward 8 hours...



...and here is a shot of the one side of the trunk...



...and a shot at the back of the trunk. I funlly covered the back side of the trunk underneath the trunk latch and all...and yes, you have to remove the entire assembly in order to get to it.

 

looks like a giant potato.

 

Here is a shot of the right side...



...and I crammed the crap out of the mat in order to apply it to the exposed quarter-panel backings...





...and lastly I hit he bar up top on the trunk. Great, now all I have to do is apply the damplifier and carpet padding, but that can wait...I'm beat!!!

 

That will have an in-cabin ambiance that you can only hope to have wet dreams of.

 

wow son!! OD kid, how long it took you to do that? and only one layer for now?

 

Reminds me of when I did mine. Didn't take it back as far as you did I don't think. Coming along real good Dan. Great Job and the pics are worth a thousand words.

 

well i hope in the end u can kill someone in your car and no1 can hear them scream on the outside. i think i will be mimicing your sound deadening as well. time to start buying!

 

Took me about 8 hours total, most of the time was taken up in the area around the trunk latch and taillights. There's no real easy way to get to them. The next steps for the trunk are : 1 Layer Damplifier, followed by a final layer of carpet padding.

Thanks, Will! I would hope no one else took it this far...I'm driving myself crazy doing this!

Shop around when you do...check out the Deadening sticky at the top for a good brand run down...you know whom I would recommend!

Thanks for the support, everyone! I think I am going to stop deadening for a day...the almunium foil has left me with about 20 small cuts in my skin that need a day to heal!

 

looks very nice, and im sure its gonna stop all sound, it looks like every one is starting to copy u and gonna sound deadin the crap outta there car.

 

what about the jack? wont it rattle between the 2 metal plates? i know mine did, and so did my spare, and rear deck...

 

I never had a jack in mine but i was able to sound proof the space where it goes. I have noticed that my trunk tension bars rattle now. Like Dan I did put some deadener around the trunk latch area, spare wheel well is all sound proofed.

 

Now thats the way a car should be treated!

ANT

 

Did you weigh you're car before you did this? That would be awesome to see a before and after weight difference, not because it will slow you down, but to get a feel of how much weight in deadening you will add. Will it be 1 passenger worth? 2 passengers worth? The .org may never now... lol I know you all remember those tootsie pop commercials...... ok nevermind

 

The stupid-azz rain pevented me from doing jack !@#$ this weekend, so I managed to get a little bit done...this weekend I sludged the trunk. You are looking at about 0.8gallons worth of sludge...i was not able o hit every square inch of the trunk, but I hit all of the major spots big time.







We'll have to see how things go this week, hopefully Katrina does not decide to come in and 'rain-on-my-parade'! (no pun intended]

 

Haha, welcome to the .org, Ant!

 

Good job man. I did my wheel wells about 2 months ago and the sound from outside was noticeably less. It took me 2 hours to realize you can't take out the wheel wells; I don't know what idiot at nissan decided you would have to take off the fenders first to remove the wheel wells.

 

Haha, yeah...that kinda pissed me off, too.

 

Damn, Dan.....Dont let people tell you OCD is a 'bad' thing...

You have me motivated to finish the dampening in my car Got wheel wells and rear deck that need attention.

 

I suggest any of you guys who is going to deaden your car be careful using any tar backed sound deadener. I used edead in my doors and when it was in the 90's and 100's here, that stuff melted and sticked to my windows inside the door and messed up my tint, it was a bi@ch cleaning it up. I would recommend using some of that high tempature aluminum tape shown above then apply it. When tar is hot, it will flow like syrup into every hole and leak between the metal panels inside your doors.

 

i was inspired by all this deadening shizzle, so i went to home depot, i went to the roofing section and had a browse of the stuff they had. I came across roofing patch stuff that came in paint-can sized batches. The one that jumped out at me was the one that turned into rubber when it was dry so i decided to give it a try on my trunk lid on the inside where the trunk latch is i let it dry for about 8 hours then put the lid back on. also it didnt feel like rubber when it was dry.

to my amazement there was little to no rattle at all..im not gonna say this stuff is better than all the other deadener stuff out there but it is a cheaper alternative to whats out there. i paid 14 bucks canadian.

i think ill try the rear deck next with 2 or 3 layers of this stuff

 

Ok, so now it's time to start deadening the doors...I am going to first start off with one of the rear doors. The first thing that I did was run my own speaker wire...what you see is my Silver Plater Knuknoceptz Kasa Kable (14AWG)...it's threaded through the door grommet and enscased in wire loom. I will have to seal it off with caulk later.



Next up we see the door switch latch rods covered in wire loom...you'll see why in a minute!



Now, the first thing that I did was add one layer to the door panel itself...



...then we add the first layer...



...and then we are all done with the second layer!



This deadening was EASY. It took me about 30 to 45 minutes per layer, with a total of 2 layers damplifier exactly per door. These things are now DAMN sealed!!! I will follow up with the other rear door and one front door.

 

man i hope your window regulators don't go out any time soon...it'll be a PITA to get that deadening off *knock on wood*

 

i was wondering this my self...just out of curisoity...

i know its gonna be a cruiser so theres no preaching about the power/weight ratio here

 

Looks awesome man. You have def outdone me. I bow to the new deadener master....

 

wow ... looks great so far

 

Just curious how many pounds more u'll carry all the time after the deadening done

 

What is the wieght off all that deadener?

 

Chris, you inspired me to take it to the level I did. You can always go back and add more, though.

162lbs...well worth the sacrifice!

Ok, I should have some pics up of all the deadening done this weekend...I did 2 more doors, the rear deck, and the roof...stay tuned! Oh, and on a side note, a bee stung me right on my ***, right in between the cheek and the quad...suffice to say, this has slowed me down a bit today!!!

 

Ok, so after an inverntory check, I found that I have WAY more Damplifier than I thought. Soooo...I can now put hella heavy layers on everything. I wish I would have known this earlier, I would have put a second layer on the trunk. :crap:

Anyway, here we see the passenger door with 1 layer on the door, THREE LAYERS on the frame:



And another passenger door with ONE layer on the door, THREE layers on the frame...



...and finally, the other passenger door with ONE layer on the door, THREE layer on the frame..

 

...and now for the rear deck...



...here's after one layer...



...and now, with a second!



I also hit the roof while I was at it today...

 

looking good man! Keep up the great work

have you driven it lately or is it sitting inthe garage waiting for completion?

 

Thank! No, I drive this thing everyday...the comments I get from co-workers and friends are, uhmmm...interesting to say the least.

The most amusing thing occured when I was driving this evening...there is a little lip where the doorpanel normally goes over, and since it's off, when I am driving with the window down, the wind tunnels RIGHT between the window and the lip, and in between the door and the subrame...it's pretty hilarious, it sounds like a little windtunnel; the air goes right in and is just trapped!

 

Wait till you drive with the rear deck done in the sun. Hope you have sunglasses.

On another note, I am glad I could fuel such a worthwhile adveture.

Hope your butt feels better. From the bee sting. I figured with this crowd, that statement needed qualification.

 

i want to see the trunk!!

 

A pic of Dans bee sting?