But it speaks to the amount of noise reduction if the exhaust noise is that diminished even when I'm capable of hearing it coming in from the open windows, I guess. Frankly I don't ever drive with the windows up so I didn't really bother to test. Sound: Significantly reduced on the interior, even with the windows down. I finally put Jane back together and have been puttering around town / highways for a few days, and I can say: WOW, the difference is actually measurable! Don't know why, but I didn't expect that. After laying the Second Skin mat down, I installed my old mass-backed carpet on top.Ģ) Master Series Silver (rustproof floor)ģ) Homebrew LizardSkin (reduce heat transmission)Ĥ) Second Skin Luxury Liner (replace factory underlayment, reduce sound transmission) I am quite happy to just have pieces of sound deadener that lay in the floor pan with no taping/gluing required. I hate that peel n stick stuff and it will never ever go in my car again. I went for this stuff because it will not degrade or hold onto water the way that the factory underlayment does, and it has superior sound deadening properties while requiring no extra installation effort (unlike the peel n stick products such as Dynamat, FatMat, etc.). I mostly cut it to match what I remembered the factory underlayment looking like, although I did cover more of the transmission tunnel with scrap I had left over. It is a mass-backed vinyl that comes in at about 1/8" thick, very dense but easy to cut with a razor blade. After that had all cured, I opted to replace the old degrading factory asphalt underlayment with a layer of Second Skin's Luxury Liner product. Although I would use a thicker-bodied paint for this blend if I was to do this again in the future, the blend I made got the job done - I just ended up putting down 3 coats of the spheres since my paint was laying down so thin. The idea was to get the heat reduction properties I wanted (with the ceramic spheres), in a paint that I knew would stick until the end of time (the Master Series stuff is a moisture-cured urethane). So, on a tip from another VMFer, I opted to make my own using a blend of Master Series Chassis Black + Hytech ceramic microspheres. But I read a number of reviews that said that the LizardSkin was very hard to work with and not very durable, with a number of reports of poor adhesion, peeling up in sheets, etc. so here we go.Ī brief(ish) synopsis: I wanted to paint the floors with LizardSkin Ceramic (the heat reducing type that has the ceramic microspheres) to try to keep some of the road/exhaust heat out of the interior in our hot summers. And these kinds of things are usually easier to find in a new thread, rather than buried in an exhaustive thread like the kind I tend to post. I did a full thread on this whole process a while ago, which you can find here: Redoing floors the "right" (hard?) way: an.Īnyways, now that I have finally put Jane back together, I thought I would post my final thoughts on two of the additions to Jane's interior, in hopes that it will be useful to people in the future. Things snowballed, as they do, and I ended up also adding a homebrew LizardSkin for heat insulation, as well as a layer of Second Skin's Luxury Liner (a mass-loaded vinyl) to replace the degrading factory asphalt underlayment. Each 1 gallon container can cover 20-23 square feet at 0.040” (40 mils) thickness.I dug a little too deep into an interior refresh towards the end of last year, and ended up stripping the floors to bare metal with the intent of putting down something more bulletproof (or at least rustproof). LizardSkin is completely water soluble, meaning it offers an easy cleanup with just soap and water. For maximum acoustic performance, coat the entire interior surface and the floor, inside and out. Typical applications include firewalls, floor pans, transmission tunnels, doors, hoods, trunk lids, under headliners, inside fenders, panel van walls, and other areas that generate vibration and noise. LizardSkin Sound Control can be used with LizardSkin Ceramic Insulation when used together, LizardSkin Sound Control must be applied first. LizardSkin Sound Control is a high-tech coating that stops the vibration of sound waves coming from a surface before they enter the air.
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