Sound Deadening Material in Doors?

[DesertTitan]

Does anyone have pics of their install of sound deadening material in the doors? I just ordered 50 sq ft of B-Quiet and getting ready to tackle that project. Any tips or advice?

[bestatchess]

Mineral Spirits works good for cleanup of the bituminous goo. I used a little roller and a hair dryer to press it down.

[smoketitan]

goof off works also to remove it from any unwanted places--lol

I dont think 50 sq ft will be enough ( that new brown bread is expensive isnt--its some new version or something)

I used two rolls to double up the inner door metal (actually inside the door reach through the holes in the metal and go up as far as you can--and be sure to get the far corners or the top of your doors will ring) and a single layer on the metal closets to the plastic door panel

I also matted my actual door plastic panel and that helped tons for me ( I have large mids crossed at 80hz so you may not need to)--I keep meaning to post pics---I put them up tonight)

Id suggest 70-100 for the two front doors (the inside of the metal is the most important as our door metal is very thin)

another 70-140 for the floors (make sure you double it up and cover it with some sort of foam (ensulite or vcomp) --I made the mistake of not double it up and I notice the difference --especially over the tranny hump and the the exhasut lines and go up all the way to the firewall---double this up for sure as tons of road nosie come through this point


you amy want to do the roof also since you have upfiring subs and you will get some crazy flexing with as our roof is very thin!!!

make sure you use 3M super 77 or better spray adhesive as it will fall of without a strong adhesive during the summer

50sq ft for the rear wall --double this up as well and add foam if you have it

take your time and do it right the first time (unlike me who haad to take my car apart three or four times)

I love brown bread, but the new formula is way expensive (200 for 50sq ft)

Id recommend you check out raamat as it is just as thick, and a ton cheaper

http://www.raamaudio.com/

I used four rolls total (280 sg ft) for the rear wall, floors,and four doors (although my rear doors are very lacking as I ran out of material and I dont have any speakers in them right now)

also while you have your car apart ( I highly recommend you do the floorboard and rear wall FIRST before you do the doors) run your wires/rcas to the rear wall also through the door hinges

make sure you mark Front/Rear Left Right on all rcas wires, tweeter wire etc porperly before hand

run your power wire on the left hand side (easer to route to the battery)

and use the largest wire you may ever need (id recommend 1/0) since you have three large amps) I orignally had 4ga and then had to pull it out to run 1/0 ga when I went for larger amps

[DesertTitan]

Man, sounds like I am going to spend as much on sound deadening material as I am on my system! I guess I'll use the 50 sq ft that I have coming for the back wall since that is what I am working on right now anyway. The stuff I got is B-quiet Ultimate, which I think is the same as Brown Bread. It was $130 for 50 sq ft.

I'll probably do the floors and the doors, but I don't think I'm brave enough to try the headliner. Guess I can always do it later if I decide to.

I still haven't drilled my firewall hole for my 1/0 gauge, but I was planning to drill it on the right side. Running the power down the right would work better for me anyway because I am installing my cap where the jack is usually installed.