Sound Deadening of the Interior.

Well, this morning I woke up nice and early, drove to Krispy Kreme and scored a half dozen assorted and a large coffee. The Breakfast of Tuners!

So at 9 am sharp I embarked on applying the Damplifer Pro from Second Skin Audio. I figured I would cut me teeth on one of the rear doors first. Ok -the panel was already off. But hey - you know me... I want the job done right and sound dampen the INSIDE of the doors. It too me a while to figure out how to remove the power window motor assembly - namely how to unclip the window from the assembly.

Did everyone know that you're 850 door has this like "Honeycomb" plastic in it??? I was looking for some bees to come out or something. Ahhh... Swedish Engineering once again.

OK - so I laid up some S.D. material on the inside of the door.

I then laid a sheet of material between the two Honeycomb assemblies. This should stop them from passing noise from the door skin to the inside panel.

Took me a while to figure out how I took these things out and how the went back in together. I finally figured it out though. With one layer on the door and one layer between the honeycomb assemblies, the unit fit pretty snuggly back into the door.

I then laid up sheet on the door itself. One thought was that it would be easier to lay it up on the inside of the door skin itself, but I probably would not stick for long. SD Material is better against clean metal.

Now complete with door assembly back in place. Gee... that only took two hours to complete!!!

Well, I continued onward... I spent the day on the back end of the car where most of the difficult parts are (I figured I wouldn't leave those for last). Here is a picture half way through the day (maybe).

I will try to take picture through tomorrow as well. Hoping to get an early morning and the two Coronas and one Heineken are slowing me done. Later!

Scott C.

Here is a bit further along.

Well. I ended today about 6 pm~ish. 9 hours plus a few minutes to jam a sandwich and a Red Bull. So - I have the back half of the roof complete, one door, the rear deck and the rear seat area. Tomorrow's goal is to complete the other rear door , the roof and roof framing, as well asthe rear part of the floor boards. That way I can reinstall the sunroof assembly and (nice and clean) headliner assembly. I can also get the rear door panel back on as well as rear carpet and back seat. That should give me some more space in the garage (mess).

Look for more tomorrow. I keep recalling something I read on a Sound Dampening site. "You have to want it!" This is a lot of work, but I just kept telling myself that all day today

Scott C.