dynamat

[bman36569]

anybody know bout this stuff? is it best to just put this in the whole inside of your car?like roof, floor, doors, trunk..all that? and about how much would that cost for a car about the civic of a civic

[bman36569]

size of a civic***

[exalted512]

www.secondskinaudio.com
owners name is Ant
hell hook you up
-Cody

[neomagus00]

if you can afford it and have the patience, more is better. important spots - for subs, the trunk (the whole thing, not just the lid. take up the carpet and the spare tire if youve got one and secondskin the whole shebang) and don't forget the license plate, that rattle drives me nuts. for doors, a 1 foot square behind the mids does wonders. from there on in it's all good. i've seen an H2 install that had dynamat on every square inch of metal they could reach - three layers of it. if you hit the door all it did was thud, like pounding on a tree. awesome sound inside too.

[bman36569]

dont they have spray filler for the door and just holes , to fill them up. and um.. about how much would that cost for a car?

[neomagus00]

yes, there is a spray version, but i personally prefer the sheets. it's worked better in my experience. more work for more benefit. i honestly have no idea how much the stuff costs or how much a can covers, so i can't help you there. i do believe the spray is intended for the hard-to-apply areas, like small, irregular corners and the like.

[LittleCar_w/12s]

Definitelly go with the sheets. Remember there are 3 kinds of dynamat. regular, thick and extreme. OR if you can find it, there is a commercial grade that gets put in some cars when manufactured. Simply called rubber noise deadener, it's a bit cheaper without the brand name. I was lucky and my car has them in key areas. I still dynamatted the entire roof, even over the one that was there.... and the hatch/trunk too. Get help with the roof, dynamat is heavy and doesnt peel off too well if you mess up. OH and get a seam flattener roller for a few bucks for wallpaper, usually wooden. It gets bubbles out real well.
-Jerry

[neomagus00]

yeah, all that, but use second skin. it's the same, but cheaper.

[exalted512]

and works better, and sticks better, and conforms better...
use a heat gun and a tennis ball to work it into corners and to press it down, trust me, tennis balls work better than rollers
-Cody

[LittleCar_w/12s]

Tennis ball? Good idea. I just happen to have been a painter and had paper-rollers handy :)
Link for Second Skin? I havent heard of it.
-Jerry

[exalted512]

Originally posted by exalted512
www.secondskinaudio.com
owners name is Ant
hell hook you up
-Cody

[fairlynew]

anyone heard anything about Fatmat (www.fatmat.com) its like $100 plus shipping for 100sq ft....?

[swerve]

I get my secondskin on monday, hopefully i get some of it done on monday night... i hope i have enough.... 50 sq ft... i atleast want the trunk lid and the floor

[LittleCar_w/12s]

Hey man, shipping on mastic is going to be high... that stuff is heavy.

Oh, I asked Ant at secondskin if he has a local dist ner my zip, kickin website man. I also noticed that the fatmat that was posted here has some good lookin stuf too, but it doesn't look as topQ as the Secondskin (I didnt get into looking at the specs so far.)
Of course, if Cody can get Ant to get Jerry some warehouse discount....
-Jerry

[swerve]

I got 40% off when I ordered from ANT, :D
better yet its shipped free!!!

[neomagus00]

swerve - please, for the love of phil, remember to put little rubber thingies on your licence plate. just like washers, only thicker and rubber, put em between the car and the plate on the screws... it pains me just to imagine that rattle...

[swerve]

thats fixed with like 3 layers of tennis ball behind it
its pretty ghetto but it works

[LittleCar_w/12s]

My bumper is rubber-plastic, do it doesnt seem to matter. But I have a large plastic panel on the rear of my hatch that seems to rattle due to an air leak under it somewhere... Given that I've dynamatted the hell outta the inside of the actual hatch, and that you can hear the little tiny chuffing with the rattle...
Any ideas? I dont want to take it off and re-glue it, those panels are very fragile.
-Jerry

[swerve]

the covers for my tail lights rattle very bad... i have to figure out how to take those guys off. I've looked and cant seem to come to a solution.

1 day till my secondskin gets here!

-Adam

[neomagus00]

jerry and adam - duct tape?? it solves everything else...

[exalted512]

duct tape and WD-40 are the only tools youll ever need
if it moves and its not supposed to-Duct Tape
if it doesnt move and its supposed to- WD-40
-Cody

[swerve]

Originally posted by neomagus00
jerry and adam - duct tape?? it solves everything else...

duct tape is good but im not trying to increase my redneck skills any

[AustinKP]

Originally posted by swerve
duct tape is good but im not trying to increase my redneck skills any

Careful man, you don't want to offend anyone. I mean, we DO have some people from Texas in this forum :) j/k
If anyone could be called a redneck, it'd be someone from southern Missouri...and if you don't like Duct Tape...super glue!

[neomagus00]

ah, but the advantage of duct tape is that you don't unintentionally get high off the fumes and start gluing your hand to the car cause it's funny...

then again, that would explain an awful lot... :D

[swerve]

got my secondskin today, im going to have way more than needed

now im waiting on a friend to get the hell over here and help me.

-adam

[exalted512]

awesome!
tell us what you think when youre done
-Cody

[swerve]

im glad i prepped last weekend, it's going so smooth I have the floor of my trunk finished, now i have 4 panels to go, knocking out 3 more tonight, then doing the one behind the back seat tomorrow

[exalted512]

then what are you doing on the internet for?
get back to work!
-Cody

[swerve]

im fat......... i can only do so much at a time

[swerve]

officially finished for the night! Time to hook it all up... only have 2 more panels to do tomorrow