Sound deadener / how much for a tri 5 ?
 

I just took my 57' Chevy for a good long drive and am now looking into sound deadener. I have only the carpet and jute pad, nothing else (no door panels or headliner), so I realize that is a huge culprit but I think I should put some sort of mat down on all of the panels. I stopped by the local street rod shop and they have dynamat and hushmat... The hushmat was about 15 % cheaper, so I may go with that. 58 sq ft for 300.00 sound good? I would like to entirely cover the roof, doors, floor, trunk, rear side panels, firewall, etc... Can anyone give me a square footage on what is needed? I can go out and use a tape measure, but would rather not if someone already has this info... As a guesstimate, I am thinking 2 boxes of the 58 sq ft mat should get me there. Thank you!

Jason

To cover EVERYTHING completely as you stated, you not even close. More like 6 boxes to do it all in Dynatat 36 sq ft boxes. It took 3.5 boxes to do a 71 Firebird not including the trunk.

I really don't have a ballpark on your square footage but I just bought 100 sq ft of Fat Mat www.FatMat.com for $129 shipped! Same stuff as everyone else, they just don't have the markup to pay for the massive ad budget.

Jason is right, We see that a lot in cars and it seems to work well

Hushmat told me it would take two bulk kits to do the whole car.

I haven't layed it down yet, so I'm not sure how much that actually covers.

Thank you guys !

So you believe FatMat is good enough to use. i'll be near that point in January

We are a dealer for Second Skin and could get you into a 80 sq ft shop pack of their Damplaflier Pro for very reasonable prices. We have been using it in house on a couple of our builds with great results.

does Second Skin help with the heat?

I have both a 55 & a Nova that needs it, I like the price specially if it works like I am reading........ 200 yds for everything for both should do it.

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one roll, enough to do my doors and roof also- great product, no nonsense

very happy- Chris:thumbsup:

I also used fatmat great product. Just wear some sort of gloves as the blue ink comes off pretty easy.

I used the Damplifier Pro on my floors and two sheets of their Heat Wave Pro specifically because of the head coming through the floorboard near the pedals. The results have been truly impressive. No heat coming through at all. I know it's not cheap, but it is good stuff.

Is that the 100sq ft. roll? How does it feel as in long term adhesion?

Thank you all for the replies !

Jason

Isn't fatmat an asphalt base? I heard that stuff gets gooey in the heat.

-Dan