I've been working on my install for the last few days, and I thought I would share some of my progress so far.

new door pods







deadening in the hatch







in the glove box







just a bit under the seats





doors





after ensolite on the doors




more pics to come in the near future

 

how much did you spent on mats?????!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

That's a lot of blue tape!! I love blue tape (track fiend here).


Are those pony or cow covers (dalmation)?

 

Those speaker pods are too moooooo-ch for me.

 

hahahaha! are those for real? please tell me thats some sort of sound purifying layer and your puting black over it!!!!

 

The total for the sound deadening was under 300 so far, I may want to do some more.

 

The spotted patern is for real, it's closeout fleece from the local fabric store 2.99 a yard instead of 8 bucks. I'm cheap what can I say. What you see there is actually the plug for the pods. once they get sanded, body filled, painted, molded, and covered in vinyl the spots will be no more.

 

I needed to mask off before I sprayed the adhesive for the ensolite. I agree blue tape is the biddy biddy bomb, 14 days of being lazy and not touching your project and still no adhesive residue. Does it get better than that? I submit that it does not.

 

Looks like some good work so far.

 

Thanks Tech!!

 

Step 1 building a smaller glove box



Final sound deadening under the seats 1 layer of ensolite




Will post more as they become available

 

Is all that for road noise, rattling...both??

 

I had a couple of things in mind when I decided to do the deadening to this extent.
First and foremost I didn't like how the car sounded "thin" when i would drive across sand or gravel and it would hit the inside of the wheel well.
Second I wanted the doors to close with a thud as opposed to a thunk, this is of course just a personal preference, but it does serve to make the door speakers sound better also.
Third I decided to "try and do this only once". I really didn't want to have to tear out the interior again to do more deadening, so I figured I was safer going with too much than too little. Of course now that all my deadening is installed into the car I'm just crossing my fingers that it's enough. I'll give the final verdict when the car gets back on the road.

Things left to do:
1: Finish the doorpods, mount the speakers, mount the tweeters, mount everything to the door.
2: Build a sub box to fit in the stock location that will bolt on to the factory mounts.
3: Build a component rack to go behind the passenger seat compartment, mount the rack and wire up all the goodies.
4: Build a shallow glove box to go in the stock location with a lexan back to show off the components.
5: Route the wiring from the battery to the glove box, route the wiring to the doors, route the wiring to the sub. Quick prayer and test.
6: Re-assemble the interior of the car, shampoo the carpeting, final install of the head unit.
7: Go for a ride.

I hope to be done in 2 weeks or less

 

Before being covered in Vinyl


After vinyl and installation of the speakers



I know the door panels are filthy, but hey they're not even on the car yet. Will post more pics as things progress.

 

You're doin that all for the same reasons I would. I agree about the way the Z sounds "thin". lol! And the door thing....I LOVE it when you shut a door and it makes that deep solid thump. HAHA! I'm planin on doin the same thing some day. Just have to find the time to do so. Looks very time consuming. What are you using exactly? Is it like Dynamat or something similar? And how much to cover the WHOLE car like you're doin?

 

man oh man....

 

I'm pretty sure tat is using RaamMat. Great stuff, it's butyl based instead of asphalt so no bad smell + it can handle higher temperatures before it gets slimy. It's a bit thin compared to some other deadening brands but layering in key spots fixes that. Also, just weighs 23 lbs. per roll (60 sq feet), where one roll will cover your back end very liberally or you entire interior conservatively

Btw, nice job so far! Have you ripped up the floor yet? I was having fun with that last night

 

I think you should have made the rounded edge that meets the upper part of the door more "perfect"". I mean it doesn't look like it was sanded to a perfect shape, but I like the job you did. It's really easy right?....just a bit messy

 

it's pretty easy, this was my first set ever, so I was mostly concerned with symetry from the left to the right. The rounded part you're referring to is a little to do with the shape of the form, and a little to do with this being my first time wrapping in vinyl. There's a bit of a learning curve when stretching vinyl over a round corner that I haven't yet gotten over. I may make a new set somewhere along the way, I probably have enough materials to make 8 pair with what I bought to make the one, so we'll see if I get bored in the future.

 

You are correct it is Raammat, I love the stuff. It doesn't smell like you are paving a new road when you are done, and it is SUPER sticky. What are you referring to as ripping up the floor, I had the entire interior out of the car, but I did not remove the foam floor leveling pieces. What I have pictured is all I had planned on doing this time around.