help me dynamat!!!

[turbokid]

my door panels started to rattle ...... well curently i have infinity kappa 6.5 speakers and something within my door panel is rattling. I was wondering if anyone knew how to take off the whole door panel so i can dynamat the crap out of my doors.

 

[JokerWylde]

What year is your car?

 

[turbokid]

2000 gt

 

[BBrinks]

Here's how to get the door panel off: http://www.carstereohelp.org/stereoremoval/FordMustangFDrPnlR.htm

Here's a couple of pics of how I did mine:

 

[Poopie D]

Did you take off the factory soundproofing before you dynamatted or did you leave it in there?

 

[turbokid]

haha thanx BBRINKS! i havent started yet but i will soon.

 

[BBrinks]

I took off everything, including the waterguard before I started installing it. It takes some time, just to warn you. I think mine took about 6hrs. each for 2 layers. Be sure to clean and prep the surface before you start laying it down. Also, a heat gun will be very helpful to help get the mat more pliable, and helps it adhere to the panel better.

 

[JokerWylde]

Yeah, it's not terribly difficult, but time consuming as BBrinks said....One thing I want to point out is that you need to make sure that you leave all those square holes open for the door panels' "hooks" to grab. The first time I did my doors, I went gungho with covering all the holes I could, and didn't even think about those particular holes. When it came time to put the panel back on, I probably sat there for about 10 minutes shoving it and banging on it and throwing up a rather impressive volley of 4-letter words until I realized what I had done. Felt like a complete tool afterwards, but oh well.

 

[turbokid]

im starting my project today.. actually rite now =]. Thanx for all the help!

 

[Poopie D]

Did my doors today. I have no prior experience with Dynamat or removing door panels from Mustang. It took about 3 hours for the first door and about 2 for the second. One problem I ran into was removing the speaker housing...it is riveted to the door frame. I had to drill through the rivet and bust it out. I replaced it with a bolt, washer and locknut...it ain't goin anywhere now!

I am very pleased with the result. It has made a huge difference. The doors make a nice firm clunk sound when they close and no more speaker rattle. I recommend doing it to any of you guys out there!

P.S. How do you guys put a picture right in your post?

Here is link of a pic of the job (not pretty but functional!)


http://forums.stangnet.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18715&stc=1

 

[BBrinks]

Looks good I'd recommend covering up the holes where you can see the window mechanism. It helps seal the door up some, and I noticed a big improvement in midbass when I sealed mine. Just a thought. If you're using stock speakers, you might not notice much of a difference.

 

[Poopie D]

I actually put the factory splash guard back in on top of the dynamat...works fine, and I thought I would leave the big holes just in case I need to do some window work...and I ran out of Dynamat!

I am still running the Mach 460 for the time being....it is not too bad with the doors sealed and the subs I put in the trunk (2 10' Alpine type R'S and Alpine MRD M500)....doesn't compare to the Bose system in my Envoy though...

 

[BBrinks]

I was actually going to ask if you put the waterguard back on, I didn't mean to post but pressed the reply button on accident. That speaker bracket was a pain for me too. The rivets were a pain to drill out.
To post a pic, just register on mustangmods.com, and they'll let you upload 25 pics their for free. Then you can just click on the insert image icon and insert the hyperlink.

This:
[IMG ]http://www.mustangmods.com/data/6800/mustang1.jpg[ /IMG]

will turn out like this if you delete the spaces after the first IMG and before the /:

I don't know why it's not working now, but that's how I just did it a few posts up.

 

[DaFeared]

BBrinks=Car audio dictionary/manual.