2006 Civic sound dampening project

there is a risk of voiding the warranty by breaking something yes, so i'll take this post to urge people who are thinking of doing something similar, to think carefully about what you're doing and understand the consequences before you start wielding socket wrenches! of course the socket wrench work is trivial - the hard part is pulling panels off that are fitted with clips. those always make you feel like you're about to break something :O

that said, the clips are surprisingly strong, and the plastic of the panels is also quite strong. if anything was to break, it'd be the clip. i've only come across 3-4 distinct types of them so far, all of which you can probably grab spares from repco, so no biggie.

Subscribed. Interested to know how this goes mate :)

I admit I'm a wuss and wouldn't dream of doing anything this daring on a <6mth old car! Good luck with your project though!

wow I guess it depends on what car you've come from but the civic is so NOT noisey for me.

Good luck with it......and I hope you get to the reduce noise level your after.

if not rev higher and turn on the sound system.

once i've finished everything, i think it might be a good exercise to find someone else in my area with a civic sport and then compare noise levels directly... say with a dB meter or something? the earliest i'll finish all of this though is the coming sunday evening, so still early talk yet.

kool.........i'll happily help.......

Beacroft.

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$200 dynamat !!!! Wow.. that's cheap. Tyre upgrade can also reduce the noise. ;)

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on that note, care to name some quiet tyres? :)

bit ot; chylld wouldn't happen to be from ocau with a worms avatar would it? :D

MKI4EVA: do you have a sport as well? beecroft is plenty close for me. or maybe we'll just wait until that meet u proposed in the other thread? :) i'm up for it but would really like to have my sound deadening + system up and running first.

vinnY: yep that's me :) (OT: it isn't a worms avatar, it's an alien i made in 3d for a sketch comedy show) (but yes it pretty much looks like a worm)

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MKI4EVA: do you have a sport as well? beecroft is plenty close for me. or maybe we'll just wait until that meet u proposed in the other thread? :) i'm up for it but would really like to have my sound deadening + system up and running first.

vinnY: yep that's me :) (OT: it isn't a worms avatar, it's an alien i made in 3d for a sketch comedy show) (but yes it pretty much looks like a worm)

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yups sports. Let me know when your ready, I'm curious too.

But I got a feeling its more the tyres.........but hopefully you'll prove us all wrong.

I can't wait to get new tyres for it. Stock tyres are sheeet house.

agree... stock tyres are shocking, esp in the wet - i can feel the abs working overtime on downhill bumpy roads!

guess what i just picked up:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1908/dyn16mg.th.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7899/dyn23yu.th.jpg

yep, 3 bulk packs of dynamat xtreme - and it's bloody a lot heavier than i thought! (Fr3aKi3: not sure of the rules on this forum, so pm'ing you the supplier details)

U guys live near Beecroft? I'm from CB and used to go to Arden (in Beecroft) LOL. Small world. Btw I wonder if the Sport is much noisier than my VTi-L.

If you guys are bored sometime maybe we should meet up... if we have time I'd also like to compare speedos (get someone to ride in both cars and compare) because a few people have told me they reckon my speedo is very optimistic.

... btw in regards to the Dynomat, won't that make your car heaps heavier (and thus slower)- and potentially negating any of the benefits from getting the sports model over the normal 1.8 which is lighter (and maybe even quieter)?

the sport has wider, lower profile tyres than the vti and vti-l... i'm guessing wider = more tyre noise because of more tyre tread, and lower profile tyres = more road noise because the overall suspension is reduced so more bumps get transmitted to the cabin.

there's about 22kg of dynamat in total, that's not insignificant but it's not that heavy either. the sport has plenty of torque though, enough to haul a full car around so an extra 1/3 of a person is nothing :)