UPDATE: 10/19/03 SOUND DEADENING
Took place over about a week in early August 03.
First up: The front wheel wells.
This is the product I used, it is called Stinger RoadKill and you apply it just like spray paint, but goes on like asphalt.
In these pictures you can see the driver and passenger side applications respectively. I did this more for roadnoise than for anyother reason. On the passenger side you can see my overspray "oops" Everything before I sprayed was pretty much red, to give you an idea of the area I sprayed.
Second and most important: The rear hatch.
On the left you can see the rear hatch exposed and on the right the main and biggest of the 4 plastic pnales that I had to take off to get to it.
And on to the sounddeadening. Accross the hatch we go. I used Elemental Designs' (maker of my sub) eDead v.2 soundeadening matt for this application.
Here it is finished, hours of work later, you cant really tell in the picture, but several areas are actually several layers thick. This was actually a much harder project than I first thought it would be because of all the deep countors, wires, motors, and mechanisms of the hatch that I had to work around, over, and under.
In these last two pictures you can see the almost and abosolutley finished up and rehidden product.
Thirdly: The floor
The chaos that is installing anything in a car, and this is only half the mess.
I didnt take a before picture which I wish I would have, but here I am working my way from back to front after peeling the carpet up, it took me forever to get the seatbelts unscrewed from the floor so that I could get the carpet up in the first place.
Here Is the end result with the eDead v.2
On the left you can see the test fit of the carpet padding cutouts. On the right you can see all the pieces duct taped into place with the wires run all the way back, signal wires and 4-channel speaker wire on the passenger side, and 0/1 guage power wire and remote turn on lead on the driver's side. I cut tracks for the wires to run back in so there would be no bumps or humps in the carpet.
On the left is a close up of the wires on the passenger side running down the track I cut. On the right is just a random picture of the wiring process.
On the left you can see the significant raise because of all the extra padding, but looking at both pictures you can see that everything looks uniform with no bumps. I believe the end result on the right looks stock, but better, not to mention much better accoustically and much more comfortable as well.
Here is a picture of the completed box sitting idly on the bench seat waiting for the soundeadening to be finished.
Table of Contents:
Page 1: Latest Editions
Page 2: Exterior
Page 3: Interior
Page 4: Equipment
Page 5: Kappa Install
Page 6: Box Building
Page 7: PIAA Foglight Install
Page 8: Yellow Top and Tsunami dist. block Install
Page 9: Sound-Deadening
Page 10: Old System and To Do List
