guys - i just got 2 rolls of BXT RAAMmat and 6) yards ensolite foam. where should i put each of the two? Im sure there is a ''better'' way of setting it up since i have a good amount of both product. please help guys/girls...thanks.

 

I'll be getting 60 sq. ft of V1Se when I return from Dallas. Don't want to order right now since I wont be around to receive the UPS shipment.

 

how the hell do you get that ring off the door? Im having no luck even lifting it a lilttle bit. Im ready to do this and this piece is holding me up. Can anybody let me know how to remove the door panels completly?

 

oh jeze - i got it - when he means center chrome piece ..... its the circle around that one. I was trying to get the darn chrome piece out

 

60 sq. ft. ordered Saturday night (immediately upon arrival back home).

So I should be all set to install audio in the next month or so whenever I have time.

 

i used almost 9 square yards of the one stuff and almost 2 rolls of the other stuff and 2 cans of glue. My car is a lot quieter. Took me 3 days to get everything off ..everything lined...and then back together.

 

At the beginning:



Some Done:



More Done:



I did all the other parts by the drivers feet and pass feet but dont have a picture of that. I put about 3-4 layers below the drivers and pass feet though.

 

Any pictures of the doors? I'll be doing those as well as the passenger side panels this weekend.

Greats pic's BTW!

 

sure - i have pics of the doors that I can post later tonight. I did not do whats ideal though. I did not take the plastic off my door because I am going to sacrifice my sanity knowing the inside of the door will be dry. You will not get best results this way because you need to stick your deadening material directly on the metal not over plastic. ....but I did .... I had a bit extra material so i figured it wouldnt hurt. Plus - I did the other parts of the door that had holes and metal showing without plastic covering.

 

Here are the steps I took:

1.) put a base coat on:



2.) went to circuit city to buy 6 1/2 inch plastic pieces to make the outter structure. I took a strong poxy and applied it around the ouside of the new housing. Then I was able to drill 2 screws through the top side holes for extra security. Just to overkill it I put extra glue around the outside of the ring and soundproof matted over (with lots of glue so it would harden). I applied matting on the inside where the plastic meets the car.


2.b)Here is the other side:



3.) I applied extra matting over the louder spots on the door and around the new structure. The plastic is bonding and will be left alone till tomorrow. I am going to give it atleast 10hours before touching it so its a tight bond. Right now the piece is solid and I could mount the speaker if I was pressed for time. I am a day ahead of schedule so I am going to wait.





The next thing I am going to look for tomorrow is a ring that will convert this 6 1/2 inch opening into a 5 1/4 because those were bought before I realized what i would be doing with the car. If you are going to follow what I did with the door then get 6 1/2 inch speakers because there is no reason why you wouldnt want to. The ONLY thing you need to make sure is that you dont buy deep speakers. The window does not give you much room behind the speaker and rules out a lot of speaker choices. I did hear that one guy put 6 1/2 polks in his car but i have no clue which ones or who it was (so do not take that as fact but from what I hear ... they might make a model that fits).



**UPDATE**
You do not want to put the matting that close to the edges. Only go as close to the edges as to where the plastic clips pop into the holes (the clips that hold the door cover on). also do not put the foam over the door parts that have the pockets. you will see what i mean if you look at picture of a stock door with the cover taken off.

 

jwaggz82...

Thanks for the pic's they're a real help.

I'm definitely going to eDead the entire door inner and outer skins. As for the vapor barrier... I'll either re-attach the stock one or fabricate a new one from some visqueen PE sheet.

I went with the Elemental Designs eD6500s components for the front and they fit with no problems. I also got the eU 600 mid-range drivers for the rear and hooked up the fronts to an NINe.2 amp and Eclipse AVN5495 HU.

I can't say enough about this setup!!! The audio is chrystal clear at any volume and that's without eDead in the doors and rear panels. I can only imagine what it'll sound like once the install is complete.

While I'm singing the eDesign praises I'd like to give a shout out and big thumbs up to Chris "Mandos" Schemp... He really took care of me, answered all of my questions, found me the best deal and got everything to me when he said he would.

Thanks again Chris... Pete

ps... Jwaggz... I have an extra set of speaker baffles here and I'll sell them to you for what I paid for them. Let me know if you or anyone else is interested.

 

Polks will easily fit (db6500) in the front doors. Their bottom mount depth is 2 5/16" (2.3125"). The eDesign eD6500s are 2.8" deep. If they fit, then Polks surely will. I have a set of dB6500 Polks under my bed that will be going in there once I receive my eDead.

 

i just got done installing the speakers. I constructed my own speaker setup today and it worked out well. Now that my car is completly matted with rammat the speaker responce is extreme. I replaced all 4 speakers - i used: 2 rolls rammat and 9 square yards rammatt (the stuff you apply your own glue to)

 

here is the pic after the speaker install so you can see how to reuse the brackets from the old tweaters. I used 5 1/4 speakers by mistake but if you make custom brackets like i did .... you can fit 6 1/2's (but you dont have much room behind them because of the window). i had to find a piece that made the 6 1/2 opening smaller so i wouldnt have a ring of free space around the 5 1/4 speaker.






Here is a picture of what the trunk lid looks like flipped over. That way you know where the clips are when you are taking it off.

 

yeah, so I installed my Polk dB6500 components and the dB650s for the rear this weekend along with adding about 45sq. ft. of eDead v1Se. Sound is 300 times better now with the Polk speakers. Still have about 15 sq. ft. left over that i did not use. I got tired of doing it. I did the doors, the walls behind the rear speakers, the wheel wells, the bottom of the "trunk" area and the rear quarters behind the wheel wells. Made a heck of a difference.

:D

 

Mandos -- have you ever successfully removed the headliner? I would like to remove the headliner to line the metal with eDead to help keep those plastic supports under there from clanging against the metal everytime I hit a bump.

 

its quite odd that after i lined my whole inside (becides the roof) it removed i would say 4/5s of the rattles I had. BUT - down the line im also looking for instructions how to remove the headliner. Thats pretty much the only thing that is left out of this post.

 

Honestly...removing headliners is one thing that freaks the hell outta me....creasing bad.

But because I love you guys, I might give it a shot

 

yeah that is what i need. As long as you have a purpose to do it, please do, but if you are thinking about removing it just for the sake of showing a how-to, dont take the risk of f-ing it up.

:D
Thanks though.

 

Well, what if I want to get the headliner done