Deadened + sealed doors... with a few pics inside

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

well i ordered some v1se from Chris(Mandos) over at Elemental Designs for my Scion tC. he was very very helpful, i got 30 sq ft of the v1se and also got 1 sq ft of the V4. i did the passenger side first then when i got to the drivers side i figured i'd take some pics to show you guys. so the pics explain the rest....

ok first a pic of the door without the door skin or plastic liner(you can kinda see the deadener on the outer panel in this pic).

used the 1 sq ft of V4 for behind the speakers in sort of a checker board design instead of the egg carton foam(thanks chris)

with the giant holes covered up(one with just the sheetmetal and the other covered with the deadener.

with some more deadener applied(almost done)

a final shot before putting the door skin back on

i used some deadener on the outer skin not a lot but tried to cover as much as possible(not a whole lot should be needed on the outer panel. then i covered all the gaping holes in the door panel with some sheetmetal and self tapping screws. then applied a good layer of deadener to the inner panels covering up the panel and the sheetmetal that i added. then went back and covered some areas with a second layer where i thought could use it. i still have a small amount left so i am going to go back to the passenger side and add a little more.

overall deadening and sealing the doors yields awesome( actually insane) results. the midbass now is very extreme and i'm still using the stock speakers just with a pioneer DEH-7800MP powering them. before i couldn't turn the high pass filter to anything lower than 80hz and still have it sound decent.

now i have the high pass set at 63 and am actually able to boost by +2 at 80hz, +1 at 125 and 200hz. the midbass is really really there now. when i play something that has strong double bass kicks i really feel it on my legs. it feels like i have little subwoofers in the doors

so i highly recommend doing this if you want some more SQ and midbass. any questions or concerns feel free to ask, or comment. thanks.

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[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

did 30sq ft cover 2 doors well? or did u have some left over

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

i have a bit left over. i did the passenger side, and put it all back together before doing the drivers side, so i plan to go back into the passenger side and add a lil bit more. but 30 sq feet is plenty for a pair of doors. the tC is a 2 door with pretty big, long doors as well. the difference with the doors deadened and sealed is very drastic. i'm lovin it!

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

well i have an 00 accord sdn, i ordered 20sqft of damplifier yesterday morning. as well as 18 sqft of overkill. i wasnt sure if its enough for front 2 doors

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

chris from ED has a scion tc and said to use 30 on the doors of it. i didn't quite use all of it but i'm gonna go back and do more on the passenger side. this Edead is so cheap but is so easy to work with and works so well. i wanna do my quarter panels and hatch, and trunk floor soon too.

when i tap on the outside of the door it makes a thump or thud sound, but when i tap on the fender or quarter panel it's a higher pitched ringing sound. this is the fist car i have deadened other than the trunk lid of an old 94 cavy years ago. but i deff plan to keep on deadening more in the near future.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Looks good. More layers on the outer skin will cut down on road noise. Really can't over deaden IMO...

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

Looks good. More layers on the outer skin will cut down on road noise. Really can't over deaden IMO...

the outer seems really solid. it was a pain in the *** to get the deadener on the outside panel. and there were 2 pretty good size steel tubes running across the doors so it was hard to get nice big pieces in there. but like i said what i did had awesome results as it is.

and a question for any SQ oriented people not just the bass heads. i am thinking of getting some PG RSD's and powering them with a zx450.2. now the midbass already seems pretty nice but i still want to get the rsd's. there is no way i will loose midbass going from the stockers to the rsd's right? cause i was reading a thread the other day where people were complaining of loosing midbass when going from stock to other comps. my concern is i really just can't imagine that much more midbass. so i just wanna make sure that spending the money is worth it.

 

[nickk678 10+ year member]

Wow, I'm impressed you did both doors with only 30sqft. I used closer to 60 for my Sebring!

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

Sebring has some long *** doors, and kinda tall, if memory serves correctly.

Looks good. So, you deadened behind the speakers, and a large portion of the inner outside wall? I'm not following with the outer wall not being done, but it is.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

i deadened both panels(inner and outer). it was hard to get to the outer panel but i put stuff where i could. and i also put some V4 behind the speakers.

regarding the post 2 posts up: i thought most people were saying 20-25 sq ft was plenty to do 2 doors? i used about 25 or so total so far. i plan to go back and add a few more pieces on the passenger side because i wanted to make sure i had enough to do the other side.