aliensecretion
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Finally got to get started on my sound insulation installation today and thought I'd start a thread on it since there always seems to be a lot of questions about the various options. This will give you one more!
So the plan was to strip off the paint on the floor pan, lay down POR15, then apply a couple layers of liquid sound insulation on the pan, sides and inside the doors. I choose eDead v3 for the sound insulation. http://www.edesignaudio.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_24&products_id=53 It's the same type of thing as LizardSkin but less than half the cost. Also plan to spray the inside of the top and just paint to match. When all that's done, i'll put the carpet back in.
So today, I started by yanking out the rear and passenger side carpet. The back end was actually in really good shape, just a few spots of surface rust, so I didn't end up striping the paint. I ended painting POR15 on all the seams and sanding around the surface rust and hitting those spots.
The passenger floor surface rust was worse but luckily not rusted through. If I had my own garage, I probably would try to replace some of it. But since I'm working out of the apartment parking garage, I decided to stick with the POR15. I laid down the first coat just on the spots where there was already rust. About a half hour later, I went back and put a coat over the whole section. It probably needs one more but that will have to happen tomorrow. I know the driver side is going to be worse and has at least two small spots that have rusted through. Not sure how I'm going to handle that... may leave it untreated until I can get it replaced.
So here's the before and after pics from today.
So the plan was to strip off the paint on the floor pan, lay down POR15, then apply a couple layers of liquid sound insulation on the pan, sides and inside the doors. I choose eDead v3 for the sound insulation. http://www.edesignaudio.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_24&products_id=53 It's the same type of thing as LizardSkin but less than half the cost. Also plan to spray the inside of the top and just paint to match. When all that's done, i'll put the carpet back in.
So today, I started by yanking out the rear and passenger side carpet. The back end was actually in really good shape, just a few spots of surface rust, so I didn't end up striping the paint. I ended painting POR15 on all the seams and sanding around the surface rust and hitting those spots.
The passenger floor surface rust was worse but luckily not rusted through. If I had my own garage, I probably would try to replace some of it. But since I'm working out of the apartment parking garage, I decided to stick with the POR15. I laid down the first coat just on the spots where there was already rust. About a half hour later, I went back and put a coat over the whole section. It probably needs one more but that will have to happen tomorrow. I know the driver side is going to be worse and has at least two small spots that have rusted through. Not sure how I'm going to handle that... may leave it untreated until I can get it replaced.
So here's the before and after pics from today.