Mandos All I can say is

That is an excellent step by step tutorial.... Very detailed and newbie friendly.. Well done..

Tim

 

this carpet thing you guys are talking about. What and where. Do people recommend the edead v3? I plan on order in about a month period. as soon as school gets out.

 

Don't hijack this thread, start a new one. To answer your question, you can call around to auto part stores and ask for carpet padding. I talked to mandos and he said you may need to apply a few (2-3) layers to achieve the same effect as eDead v1/SE but you can PM mandos just to get it from the source.

 

applaud the efforts. last time I did a project like that I cut down the road noise but picked up 10 rattles from taking everything out and putting in back.

 

 

will some mod please move this into the tC section. I tried searching under tC ICE and it took me 15 minutes to finally find this updated one. Also, it would be nice to replace the original tutorial that is currently in the FAQ with this, updated, one.

 

My bad...The day I moved all my posts to tC I didn't have time to do one page of them...I have a lot of posts apparently

Off to the tC section.

 

Well, I understand this is ICE & Interior, but I was looking at doing all this just to cut dead weight. I've already got all my mats, trunk liners, spare & accessories, front passenger and rear seats [upper and lower] removed out. It was around 180lbs of stuff that was just sitting there. Still have the carpet and such in there, but any idea how much weight you shaved off from the panels and carpet, and I would ask sound deadening, but you added that :-P

 

can you explain how to remove the back rear seats? im not sure about what you mean. "To remove the back seats, just pull up on the front corners of them. They're held in like any other back seats, just 2 little pins up front that pop when you pull. You'll have to pull kinda hard to get them to pop, but once you do, just pull the seat forward and it's out. Make sure you pop both sides before pulling forward, you'll bend the metal bracket in the back if you don't. You can fix it easy, but best not to screw it up in the first place."

can you explain a lil bit more about this part?

 

Quite literally, just get your hand under the front corner...and pull up.

That's really it. Easiest thing ever.

 

does anyone have any pictures or descriptions for installing a component set in the front and a mid-range speaker in the rear? Such as eD 6000 in the front and eD650 in the rear? I need to find out how to mount tweeters in the stock location. Pictures anyone?

 

I didn't take pictures, but to get the tweeters in, just remove the stock tweeters from the metal brackets, then use some double sided 3M 10 pound test tape to attach new tweeters. They won't go anywhere.

For mids, make baffles.

 

mandos...this posting was the bombski. you, my friend, are the man!

 

Thx for the 411

 

I think I know what my next project is. Nice write up!

 

WOW! this is a good write up and that is amazing work and I wonder how your sound system sounds like now....wow you are definitely...Amazing lol

 

My mat just came in the mail. Becides the rear sides what is the next worst spot that should be double treated?

 

I think it goes sides by rear seats, rears hatch, doors and kick panals(whatever those are?)

 

Yup...rear quarter panels(all the way from the back seats to the tail lights), rear wheel wells, doors, hatch.

The floor is kinda optional.

 

Just got 50 square feet of v1se2 and 50 square feet of v4 today. Just got done with the floor of the hatch area, and one of the doors. Let me tell you that the V4 is some pretty nice material. It pretty much kills any sound when you tap on it. I would definatly reccomend a layer of v4 in addition to a layer of v1.