So my girlfriend was complaing about my exhaust being "too loud", wtf?! So after getting **** for months for it, I decided to do somthing about it. I ordered some Dynamat off ebay for a killer price, but the **** is fawkin heavy!!!!! So pondered on a cheap, lighter substitute. I remembered in my dorm room days I used some egg crate to line my door on the inside, to keep the noise down on those days I slept all day. SO here is what I came up with.

Step 1:
Remove the cardboard piece from the floor of your trunk\hatch and take it inside.
Step 2:
Take your eggcrate foam and cut it to the size of the cardboard piece.
Step 3:
Take some normal white glue or somthing similar and squrt it all over one side of the board (pref. the bottom of the board) & apply the egg crate to the board.
Step 4:
After it drys for a hour or so then put it back in the trunk\hatch.

This basically cut out the suspension noise and exhaust noise. Basically muffling all noise.
Good Luck!

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Modified by greebler at 6:51 PM 11/29/2003

 

why is this in appearance/cosmetic?

 

cause its a cosmetic change to his car...
good thinking

 

:: Its worth doing, IMO.

 

i'm not sure if that'd work fo me tho...the vibrations traverse down the b-pipe and vibrate alot near the catalytic converter....so alot of the sound comes out through the center console

 

any pics of the finished product?

 

The best thing to do, which is what I'm doing for my stereo installs now...is to use something like dynamat, b-quiet, peel and seal, cascade etc to stop the resonance and vibration in the metal, and then an accoustical absorbing foam...any foam will do actually.

Of you can just do foam...it weighs virtually nothing. Might as well do under all your paneling.

My Civic sounds like a Lexus inside

 

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some people will just skip to this step

 

what foam do you use? by whom is it produced?

 

In the past I've just used the eggcrate foam that you can buy at like walmart to put under your mattress and what not.

Some of the cars have had it in there for 5+ years and it's still holding up. I was a bit scared that it wouldn't hold up good in that kind of environment, but it is.

You could get the expensive stuff that's more durable, but i don't see why.

 

just make your girl deal with it

 

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I will assume you have never dated a Korean girl before..

 

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Yea I have some pieces left over from dynamating my doors that I will be putting around the shifter\ebrake cables. Your right, most of it comes from there.

 

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I wouldn't spend more than $10, there is always that foam padding that is used to pad under your house's carpet. That can be purchased @ Home Depot or somthing like that.

 

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hahahahahahaha.. sounds like a good idea though!

 

Installed


What it looks like



Modified by greebler at 3:14 PM 12/5/2003

 

nice job

 

Looks Good. Hatch/exhaust 0wnz me everyday

 

very interesting...anymore pics?

 

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Yep, that's the same stuff I use.

Now take some spray adhesive and stick that to the back side of all your rear hatch paneling, and you've got it made

I'll try to get some pics up of my interior soon.

 

where can i get that foam? that foam looks like it came off the contour sleep bed thing...

 

its the one from the eggs..you know, when you buy eggs you get them

 

Well my family owns a chicken farm out in east texas. We have huge rolls of this **** for the eggs back in yonder barn. Ya'll! LOL

jk

Go out to your local Walmart\Discount type store and go into the bedding dept.

 

I did this to my coupe, and also stuffed the panels next to the back seat with eggcrate, and around the rear wheel wells. It muffles exhaust noise and road noise nicely. Now I can hear my engine better

 

Last time I stripped the back of my car, I stuffed about 10-15 lbs of polyfill into the sides of my car, from behind the front seats all the way to the back is full of polyfill. I should try this eggcrate stuff for some other parts, cuz my tires are getting to be pretty loud at 40 mph. These are ES100's nearing the end of their life w/ 20K miles on them.