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.