Preperations; Changes.

[The Architect]

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I'll be using eDead 45mil deadener and using two layers on the areas you can see for a 90mil thick finish. Ill put a little bit on the actual panels themselves. Might do an extra layer or two over the wheel wells and the muffler spot.

Definitely not going as crazy as sqcomp but hopefully this will quiet it down.

Once this is all done ill be making the frame for the new deck which on its underside will have a couple layers of eDead as well.

Eventually Ill order more and do the doors and foot wells.

[talnlnky]

welcome to the GOOD side... sound dampening is about the coolest thing you can do to a car.

what is your goal? reduce road noise, or reduce rattles due to the sub?

If its reduce road noise, put it all on your wheel wells, firewall, and floorboards. if its for rattles.... don't touch any of those places and put it everywhere else, especially the trunk/hatch area.

[o2cavyss]

always cool to see the car with everything taken out...atleast as long as you know its going back together better than before. good luck with everything architect although i'm sure you dont need it

[The Architect]

Yea its going to be for road noise for sure....it's pretty bad.

I've got 100sqft coming tomorrow and I've got all allotted for the back end of the yaris.

Ill do 3-4 layers on the wheel wells and 2 everywhere else and see how we're doing.

The deck will also absorb a lot of noise.

[sqcomp]

I'm still very wary of e-dead...

I used it on my SRT-4 and that crap peeled off within a month.

Regardless, make it happen! I'm enjoying the pics. 58 days or so until I drop that headliner to deaden that roof and start the main build on the "FrankenYaris".

[YAR1S]

cool pics.
what camera/lens?

[The Architect]

their site says its butyl based & "industrial heat" capable ie: Florida & California summers which I know first hand are unbearable so that's nice especially since I live in the cold ass NE area.

All of the reviews on the site from customers were good so I went for it, Ill report back in the summer.

[The Architect]

The camera is a Panasonic DMC-FZ28 with a generic fisheye.

[talnlnky]

another weak spot for noise is the floor board right behind the front seats (foot area for rear passengers)... I actually ended up going 3 layers deep there.

I only went 1-2 layers on the wheels.. with a layer of foam... wish I would've done more like 2-3... they seemed very rigid... but sound still comes through that part.

I too had a bad experience with edead.... though that was back 5-6 years ago. The owner used to be a standup guy... but then he kinda started cutting corners ... not sure if he ever got his game back on track.... i've been too scared to try eD out ever since.

[The Architect]

well Ill let ya know, I know edead use to use a lot of asphalt based stuff which was and is still looked down upon with them, I shall be the guinea pig.

[The Architect]

and so it begins, off to freeze in the hatch of an empty yaris....with a heat gun and hand tools.

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[The Architect]

And all the cut out pieces for the wheel wells.

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[talnlnky]

i'm surprised you took the time to cut out pieces... I just cut chunks off... and slap them right on... make sure there are no air bubbles... and continue.

[The Architect]

yea i was scoring the stuff a lot to get the bubbles out, i got the wheel wells and the side panels behind the rear speakers done, everything had no less than 3 layers.

Man am I tired and freezing.

[Sodium Duck]

pics. :)

[The Architect]

I will tomorrow but It's not as pretty as all the pictures you see with the absolutely flawless 1 big shiny piece of perfectly molded dynamat lol

[goku87]

Im in Alaska. How cold is it there? Because $5 says it's colder here.

[The Architect]

hey after a certain point to me cold=cold lol

[talnlnky]

Im in Alaska. How cold is it there? Because $5 says it's colder here.

ehhh.... i've been around to many people from alaska who try to glorify and glamorize that they live through -40F temps each year, and that grizzly bears were on their rival high school's wrestling team... and yadda yadda yadda.

To be honest, of the two dozen or so people i've met from alaska... there hasn't been a single one that didn't brag about their resilience to the elements. Then again, all of them were under the age of 25, either College students, or just out of college.

back on topic... I hate doing mat in sub 50F weather... I did it before when there was snow on the ground, and I did it with the old style mat... the stuff that you had to heat up anyway... back before all they had was this cool butyl stuff. It took a LONG TIME... and my heat gun was constantly going.

Now, i wait till there it is a sunny day, and at least 50F... that way I can unroll the stuff on the rocks or pavement and the sun will warm it up as I work. I don't know if there is an idea temperature... I know its not sub 50F tho... but 50 vs 60 vs 70 vs 80 or 90... no clue.

One key tip I learned two springs ago tho... if you gut your car to do mat.... wear a very long t shirt, or put some sun screen on your lower back where your shorts meet your shirt... I didn't... it was sunny, I bent over so much that day that my back hurt, and I had this really cool tiger stripe on the small of my back that was about 3 inches tall and went from my left to my right love handle. Took a year for that mark to go away.

[o2cavyss]

One key tip I learned two springs ago tho... if you gut your car to do mat.... wear a very long t shirt, or put some sun screen on your lower back where your shorts meet your shirt... I didn't... it was sunny, I bent over so much that day that my back hurt, and I had this really cool tiger stripe on the small of my back that was about 3 inches tall and went from my left to my right love handle. Took a year for that mark to go away.

hilarious! lesson learned

[talnlnky]

hilarious! lesson learned

GF thought it was funny too. Never had trouble identifying me in a crowd at the beach.

[The Architect]

I managed to hijack a bunch of padded foam for shipping from my work. Im going to spray adhesive onto the panels behind the rear speakers that already have 3 layers of edead then put the sides back on and call it done.

I still have to use of the last 1.5 rolls of edead on the floor where the real noise is.

[The Architect]

Crawling back into the yaris to wrap up this project, pics will ensue.

[talnlnky]

yeah, I have some 2" thick medium density foam with a non-porous backing in the side panels of my car.... pretty sure it actually made a difference... but with out a really sensitive mic it's hard to know for sure. Human ears are a horrible tool for detecting changes.

[goku87]

At least with all that padding your car will be better insulated in the winter? :P

[Sodium Duck]

Adds more protection during a crash; better than side airbags.

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[The Architect]

had to take out some of the foam pieces but I instead just stuffed them farther back in the wheel well if I could.

It's definitely a good deal more quiet now and thats without having the 3/4" carpeted MDF deck in place.

Ive also still got like 20 sqft left and everything got at least 3 layers, a fair amount got 4.