Howdy, folks. My addictions continue with the work on the car. I just can't stop, can I?
This is a Speaker Install and Sound Deadening Project. I'm going to chronicle the process for you here just in case you want to follow along. (Edit: I originally wasn't going to do the floor. You'll see that I have)
Places I'm addressing right now are:
Speakers to Install are all Polk DB+ Series with the exception of the center dash speaker. That one is still a polk, but it is from the previous (and discontinued) DB series. You can still find them new, but not in as many places.
The seat deck, riser, and top deck will have rockmat applied in tiles in several locations, and then we'll be using a layer of CCF and then MLV for full coverage of the seat and riser. The rear deck will just feature some CCF and the rock mat for deadening purposes.
In the roof we'll use the rockmat tiles and then the the melamine foam (HMF). No other materials used there.
I originally was negating the floor because the job would prove difficult, and I said that I could not be convinced.... (I convinced myself in the end......)
Any other areas that need addressing will be addressed through this project, and some of them I will undoubtedly discover after I begin. No doubt I'll realize that the layering in certain spaces will require other modifications. Specifically, I mean the doors. That will be covered throughout this undoubtedly challenging project.
Start date is this Saturday the 13th.
I'd like to thank smwalker for his indirect and unsolicited assistance via his recommendation of the vendor through a thread of his on another forum. Sound Deadening Showdown has a nice materials list, and I ordered much of the materials from them that I didn't already have.
I never consulted him, but I figured an honorable mention was in order since I wouldn't have found the vendor without locating the thread in this forum that then sent me to the other forum.
This is a Speaker Install and Sound Deadening Project. I'm going to chronicle the process for you here just in case you want to follow along. (Edit: I originally wasn't going to do the floor. You'll see that I have)
Places I'm addressing right now are:
- All Doors
- Kick Panels
- Rear Seat and Riser
- Rear Deck
- Roof
- Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV)
- Closed Cell Foam (CCF)
- Hydrophobic Melamine Foam (HMF)
- Rockmat (Cut to size)
- MDF (for costom fabricated door enclosures) *Edit: Leaving this in here as an idea, but the shape of the door's stamped holes are a challenging shape for MDF. Not using this for this project*
Speakers to Install are all Polk DB+ Series with the exception of the center dash speaker. That one is still a polk, but it is from the previous (and discontinued) DB series. You can still find them new, but not in as many places.
- DB-652 Rear Door
- DB-6502 Front Door and Dash Tweeters
- DB842DVC Woofers
- DB351 Center Channel w/ Bass Blocker & Added Resistor (if Required) *Note: If you drive with an amp, you don't need the resistor. You can use the amp's or signal processor's (if applicable) crossover to protect it from low frequencies below it's response range in the place of a bass blocker, but the bass blocker (for the correct frequency) is included with the speaker.
The seat deck, riser, and top deck will have rockmat applied in tiles in several locations, and then we'll be using a layer of CCF and then MLV for full coverage of the seat and riser. The rear deck will just feature some CCF and the rock mat for deadening purposes.
In the roof we'll use the rockmat tiles and then the the melamine foam (HMF). No other materials used there.
I originally was negating the floor because the job would prove difficult, and I said that I could not be convinced.... (I convinced myself in the end......)
Any other areas that need addressing will be addressed through this project, and some of them I will undoubtedly discover after I begin. No doubt I'll realize that the layering in certain spaces will require other modifications. Specifically, I mean the doors. That will be covered throughout this undoubtedly challenging project.
Start date is this Saturday the 13th.
I'd like to thank smwalker for his indirect and unsolicited assistance via his recommendation of the vendor through a thread of his on another forum. Sound Deadening Showdown has a nice materials list, and I ordered much of the materials from them that I didn't already have.
I never consulted him, but I figured an honorable mention was in order since I wouldn't have found the vendor without locating the thread in this forum that then sent me to the other forum.