jtl909
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Iowa City, IA
Warning....long post ahead.
Every June I drive up to Canada's beautiful Lac Seul to catch post ice-out walleyes and my 93 XJ Sport has always been a trustworthy way to make the fourteen hour journey. Now, my dad, after several health issues and what-not isn't the same man he used to be and my brothers and I want to make the drive as comfortable as possible for him and I'm looking for sound dampening suggestions. It may sound corny but it'd be worth a lot to me to get some advice on the subject. Keep in mind too that there is no way I'm going to get a different vehicle. The XJ stays. It's almost as much a part of the trip as the people involved.
First thing I did was replace the entire Fred Flintsone floor pan, herculiner it, and cover it with hushmat. (after I replaced the leaky windshield, of course) Then I did the doors...BIG difference.
I feel like I've wasted my money, though. From what I've read a lot of these expensive sound deadening measures could have been acheived by using really cheap, asphalt based undercoating spray. I'm at a point where I'm reworking the headliner and I'm to the point where I either spend fifty bucks for dynamat/hushmat type sh*t or I spend seven bucks on a can of 3M undercoating. Any experience in this matter out there? Anybody else have some inventive sound deadening measures? (besides replace the cracked manifold, of course! :laugh::laugh: Thanks!
Every June I drive up to Canada's beautiful Lac Seul to catch post ice-out walleyes and my 93 XJ Sport has always been a trustworthy way to make the fourteen hour journey. Now, my dad, after several health issues and what-not isn't the same man he used to be and my brothers and I want to make the drive as comfortable as possible for him and I'm looking for sound dampening suggestions. It may sound corny but it'd be worth a lot to me to get some advice on the subject. Keep in mind too that there is no way I'm going to get a different vehicle. The XJ stays. It's almost as much a part of the trip as the people involved.
First thing I did was replace the entire Fred Flintsone floor pan, herculiner it, and cover it with hushmat. (after I replaced the leaky windshield, of course) Then I did the doors...BIG difference.
I feel like I've wasted my money, though. From what I've read a lot of these expensive sound deadening measures could have been acheived by using really cheap, asphalt based undercoating spray. I'm at a point where I'm reworking the headliner and I'm to the point where I either spend fifty bucks for dynamat/hushmat type sh*t or I spend seven bucks on a can of 3M undercoating. Any experience in this matter out there? Anybody else have some inventive sound deadening measures? (besides replace the cracked manifold, of course! :laugh::laugh: Thanks!