Second Skin Tacoma: Sound deadening Work in progress
09-12-2005, 03:22 PM
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Second Skin Tacoma: Sound deadening Work in progress
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My name is Anthony. I go by ANT.
I own a 2004 Tacoma 2wd with the TRD package.
My company, Second Skin Audio make automotive sound deadening.
I am not here to spam the board. Just want to learn and share more about Tacos.
This is what I was able to accomplish today
Day 1
I decided to do a little bit at a time rather than go balls out and do it all at once. Today I treated each of my doors with Second Skin Damplifier Pro.
Only the inner skin of the doors though (the inside sheet metal behind the speaker). I dropped 16 sq feet in each door. This was roughly 3 layers total.
On the passengers door, I used about 1/3 gallon of SecondSkin Spectrum, the sprayable version, and use a paint brush to glob it on. Starts out blue, but dries dark dark grey, almost black.
The driver side will get the same amount. later. The inner skins will get few coats too, but I will spray it, rather than paint it with a brush. I am doing it both ways to show how the product can be applied.
The outer skins will each get about 1/3 of a gallon of Spectrum.
Once I do that I am going to line the entire cavity of the doors with 1 layer of SS overkill, then a layer of Rattle Pad to absorb the echoes for the RE XXX comps. an extra layer of 2 inch open celled acoustical grade foam will go directly behind the speakers in to absorb the rear wave.
The outer skin will get a solid layer of Damplifier Pro on the back side, then the front will get sprayed down with 2 mm of Spectrum followed buy a layer or Spectrum Sludge. The area around the speaker will get a solid a layer of Damplifier Pro around all that.
I still have to treat the plastic door shells (upholstery) with a layer of Regular Damplifier and rattle Pad. This will take some time since each door has tons of contours.
Once it is all done each door will have about:
24 sq feet of Damplifier Pro
8 sq feet of Regular Damplifier
16 sq feet Overkill
14 sq feet Rattle Pad
2/3 gallon Spectrum Sprayable
1/3 gallon Spectrum Sludge
2 sq feet open celled acoustic foam.
Total hours today: 3
Total projected hours to complete doors. 6 per door, 12 total hours
ANT
My name is Anthony. I go by ANT.
I own a 2004 Tacoma 2wd with the TRD package.
My company, Second Skin Audio make automotive sound deadening.
I am not here to spam the board. Just want to learn and share more about Tacos.
This is what I was able to accomplish today
Day 1
I decided to do a little bit at a time rather than go balls out and do it all at once. Today I treated each of my doors with Second Skin Damplifier Pro.
Only the inner skin of the doors though (the inside sheet metal behind the speaker). I dropped 16 sq feet in each door. This was roughly 3 layers total.
On the passengers door, I used about 1/3 gallon of SecondSkin Spectrum, the sprayable version, and use a paint brush to glob it on. Starts out blue, but dries dark dark grey, almost black.
The driver side will get the same amount. later. The inner skins will get few coats too, but I will spray it, rather than paint it with a brush. I am doing it both ways to show how the product can be applied.
The outer skins will each get about 1/3 of a gallon of Spectrum.
Once I do that I am going to line the entire cavity of the doors with 1 layer of SS overkill, then a layer of Rattle Pad to absorb the echoes for the RE XXX comps. an extra layer of 2 inch open celled acoustical grade foam will go directly behind the speakers in to absorb the rear wave.
The outer skin will get a solid layer of Damplifier Pro on the back side, then the front will get sprayed down with 2 mm of Spectrum followed buy a layer or Spectrum Sludge. The area around the speaker will get a solid a layer of Damplifier Pro around all that.
I still have to treat the plastic door shells (upholstery) with a layer of Regular Damplifier and rattle Pad. This will take some time since each door has tons of contours.
Once it is all done each door will have about:
24 sq feet of Damplifier Pro
8 sq feet of Regular Damplifier
16 sq feet Overkill
14 sq feet Rattle Pad
2/3 gallon Spectrum Sprayable
1/3 gallon Spectrum Sludge
2 sq feet open celled acoustic foam.
Total hours today: 3
Total projected hours to complete doors. 6 per door, 12 total hours
ANT
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09-13-2005, 03:52 PM
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are you going to be putting that much all the way around the cab? thats gonna be freakin silent...also gonna be heavy tho. when you get it all done do us a favor and take a sound reading at idle, cruise at 70 and WOT
09-13-2005, 06:12 PM
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thats kinda what i was hopin to see...like decibel numbers so i could compare em to other cars, ib et its gonna be an amzing difference...how much would that cost for an avg. cosumer to do it as extensive as yours?
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hmmm
by the time I am done I will have the following in it
140 sq feet Damplfier Pro $400
20 sq feet Damplifier $45
about 8 gallons of Spectrum $300
1 gallon of Spectrum Sludge $39
36 sq feet Rattle Pad $116
80 sq feet Overkill $76
27 sq feet Luxury Liner $135
1 sheet Motor mat $79
but, if someone called me and wanted all that stuff I would surely give them a bulk orderdiscount. That is a lot of stuff, and is not typicle of what my customers use in their cars.. I am going way overboard with this..
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by the time I am done I will have the following in it
140 sq feet Damplfier Pro $400
20 sq feet Damplifier $45
about 8 gallons of Spectrum $300
1 gallon of Spectrum Sludge $39
36 sq feet Rattle Pad $116
80 sq feet Overkill $76
27 sq feet Luxury Liner $135
1 sheet Motor mat $79
but, if someone called me and wanted all that stuff I would surely give them a bulk orderdiscount. That is a lot of stuff, and is not typicle of what my customers use in their cars.. I am going way overboard with this..
ANT
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Day 2
(couple days ago) I installed Second Skin Overkill in to the passengers door. Did about 2 layers every where. I also loaded up the drivers door with specturm. I decided to glob it on, just like the pass door.
Total time: 45 minutes per door
ANT
(couple days ago) I installed Second Skin Overkill in to the passengers door. Did about 2 layers every where. I also loaded up the drivers door with specturm. I decided to glob it on, just like the pass door.
Total time: 45 minutes per door
ANT
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Day 3
Today I sprayed the outter skins of the door down with Spectrum. Got about 1mm on each door so far. I am going to go back and do each door again to get the total up to 2mm
for the next few days the doors will remain off to let the Spectrum cure, and the smell go away. Once it is cured there is not smell at all, even if you stick your nose right up to it. takes about 48 hours to be good.
Next will be a layer of Damplifier Pro over the holes in the door. I will sandwich a layer of Overkill between 2 layers of Damplifier to cover all the holes. this will be a real cool project.. very awesome tweek that works very well.
Total Time: 1.5 hours per door
ANT
Today I sprayed the outter skins of the door down with Spectrum. Got about 1mm on each door so far. I am going to go back and do each door again to get the total up to 2mm
for the next few days the doors will remain off to let the Spectrum cure, and the smell go away. Once it is cured there is not smell at all, even if you stick your nose right up to it. takes about 48 hours to be good.
Next will be a layer of Damplifier Pro over the holes in the door. I will sandwich a layer of Overkill between 2 layers of Damplifier to cover all the holes. this will be a real cool project.. very awesome tweek that works very well.
Total Time: 1.5 hours per door
ANT
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