? about DYNAMAT

[ProTeal55]

Just thought I would post my 2cents on this topic.

I used to work in the car stereo business , and we came across which is the best sounds deadinrer product almost every day. Thw winner always came up Dynamat, for overall value and the way the product performed over time.

I just installed some extreme dynamat inside the dash of my 55 Bel-Air , and I can honestly say it is a night and day difference. I have used the fatman product in the past , and was dissapointed with the results.
The dynamat sticks much better to all sorts of surfaces , weather they be clean or not , where the fatman peeled , had a terribile odor , and left a mess behind.

Overall , I would say Dynamat is the winner ! !

[ss dave]

i just found this from Casacade Audio Engineering: VB-2 & VB-2HD twice the damping and 1/2 the wt. of asphalt materials(fat-mat). It has stick adhesive backing. They also offer V-Max, a aluminum layer, non-curing butylene rubber pad. Also found VE-1 vinyl sheets for twice damping effect with a leather grain look for those visible areas. i found this stuff after applying my fat mat and looking for speaker boxes.

[blackbeast]

here's what i did about 2 years ago when i redid the interior on my S-10 blazer. Imagine a box on wheels vibrating with a 350 and 2.5 dual dynomax mufflers.

I too couldn't afford, and didn't want to pay for dynamat, way too expensive, and i knew there had to be a better alternative.
anyways, b-quiet used to offer a roll on plastic type deadner that seemed to satisfy vibration dampening. i rolled on about 2 coats of that and then added insulating foam with a aluminum heat liner from i believe Jc Whitney of all places ( i think it was 3/8 in thick) I also added another layer of factory sound deadning from a donor blazer and then new carpet. Since I had the dash out, i used the B-quiet rollon stuff, and a layer of dynamat b/c there was no room for anything else.

The difference was quite amazing, and this thing is dead quite cruising down the freeway 70mph, 1,100 RPM. I was told by a sound-guru friend that coating the cieling would also add a great deal to vibration dampening but the pain of pulling down the headliner again stopped me from doing that.

summary:
I spent around $70-90 and was able to significantly reduce sound (especially exhaust drone) on and S-10 blazer, which i would think would be much more difficult than the average muscle car.