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Old Mar 23, 2013 | 04:01 PM
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Just wondering how sound dampening material, ie Dynamat, NVX... is installed on the front doors. My GTO has a layer of plastic covering the metal door skin. Just wondering if this is removed and the dampening material put in its place?
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typically it replaces the plastic, but it wouldn't hurt to put the plastic over top of it when done, also some people do a layer on the inside of the outside door panel before doing th e inside of the inside door panel like your talking about.
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Dynamat is great...I'd use hushmat instead though.... its about 15% lighter and has the same effect of Dynamat.
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Dynamat is great...I'd use hushmat instead though.... its about 15% lighter and has the same effect of Dynamat.
Agreed. I've used Hushmat and Ramatt. Ramatt is cheaper but Hushmatt was a lot easier to use.

OP, when I sound deadend my Firehawk I removed the plastic on the door and installed the Hushmat then put the plastic back over it.
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Old Mar 24, 2013 | 12:28 PM
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Thanks guys. I was looking at a write-up for speaker installs and saw a picture of the door with that plastic and I had never seen it before on my other vehicles (they're old) so I wondered what it was for. I didn't go with Dynamat, I went with NVX. It got a lot of praise with many reviewers comparing to Dynamat, and it was a little cheaper. I'm installing it along with Rockford components all the way around and a 10" Rockford T1 in the trunk this weekend. I'll post about it then and let you know how I feel about the NVX.
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Old Mar 24, 2013 | 01:32 PM
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I have another question. If I'm putting the sub in the trunk, should I put dampening material on the panel behind the rear seats? Will it negatively affect the sound quality of the sub?
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