wasn't it nice of x to offer to go down east to preheat your dynamat.a better way of him bringing heat is for him to tell his g/f( :mad: ) about the amps that he just bought. we'll be able to get all of our cars done simultaneously :D :D :D

[ November 04, 2003, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Loud Brown Kicker Colt ]

Two words: Heat gun. Works wonders.

No, I'm not talking about wimpy hairdryers. 1100°F mofos will work good.

I third that, but if you don't have a heated garage or the time to wait for spring, then grab the ol hairdryer or heatgun and turn on the heater in the vehicle for a bit. That should help.

I started my deadening last November on one of the coldest weeks in an unheated single car garage. I spent $30 to rent an electric heater and had no problems with brownbread (the dynomat brand is not as easy to install no matter what the weather is). I placed the roll of brownbread close enough to the heater that it was alway the proper temp and pressed the mat to the car by hand (let your fingers heat and press the deadening to the car).

Original Dynamat is hard to make stick without heat, but if you have a heat gun it works well.

There seems to have been no problem for me using Dyna Extreme or eDead though. Almost didn't need a heatgun except for making sure it molds around tight spots.

I'll have to say though, that if anyone's done an entire car, or at least a great deal of it, that it's the most time consuming part of installing a stereo.

Deadening is a tedious waste of time. It would have been better to buy a quieter car that came deadened (like any lincoln or better). I took a week off work to deaden the car, then spent another week deadening, and still have to deaden the doors (all 4). The worst part is the suspension and wheels create lots of noise, and you can never stop the noise that comes in from the windows. Deadening is great if you compete (and have your car parked while listening to music), but it will never compete with a car that was designed from ground zero to be quiet (Lexus, Mercedes, etc.). With better cars you only need to fix the resonant spots, not the car.

I am happy with my car, but the time and money spent is hard to justify. Now I have to upgrade the brakes to stop my car in a reasonable distance.

I don't know about the original Dynamat...I've used the Extreme Dynamat...had no problems...the nicest stuff I've used to date although it's kinda expensive...is the Cascade deadener.....real easy to use...didn't take much heat for it to adhere

The dynamat extreme is easy to install compared to most, however the brownbread is much easier and takes the curves much better (also much cheaper).

I unfortunately had to resort to Dyna Extreme and Original, I was in a pinch (pinches hurt)...so I got ripped. Oh, well. 120 sq ft of eDead for 160 bucks made up for that. Haha, eDead is fun to apply. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

for dynamat original, you NEED a heatgun to put it on. It MUST be heated quite a bit to be applied properly, make the glue adhere properly, and make it conform.