04 Tahoe Z71 resto/audio

[Brian_smith06]

A pillars begin. They are fugly but it's a start. Madi wanted to see what I was up to. She is very judgemental

 

[Brian_smith06]

get to put a solid weekend into the hoe. Going to be heavily sound deadening the doors. I have a lot of dynamat extreme, a couple sheets of second skin luxury liner pro, and some closed cell foam. Also purchased some aluminum stock I plan to cut up and install in the doors for extra strength. Should be a good time

 

[YukonXL04]

Keep us updated on pics please!

 

[Brian_smith06]

I love taking pictures of my progress. pics will def be added. I will try to get some pics of my buddies cars while im with him. he and I have somewhat matching tahoes. his is cleaner though.

he also has a Camaro, a Cadillac cts, my old cavalier, and what he calls Farmageddon which is an older full size chevy he keeps around for winter

 

[Brian_smith06]

This is all I've gotten done so far. Didn't end up starting until 3 today. Will finish passenger door tonight and get majority of driver done. Forgot to take pics of the aluminum bracing but will get them of driver door. It worked very well in passenger door though.

 

[Brian_smith06]

Here is how I ended tonight. Added mass loaded vinyl to both front door panels. Also got all of my aluminum bracing cut for tomorrow. All that is left is to deaden driver door and reassemble.

 

[Brian_smith06]

 

[YukonXL04]

Interesting, so do you think adding the aluminum angle helped stiffen the door up? What did you put on top of the angle to cover the hole?

 

[Brian_smith06]

It really did help stiffen it up.

I just put deadener over it. Did strips from each brace to the other and then did a second layer around the edges

 

[Brian_smith06]

100% done working on the front doors and it is night and day difference.

my mids have less distortion, they have a lot more impact and can actually listen to my radio at 20 instead of 30 for desired output on the highway.

I installed
3 ft of aluminum angle stock per door
15 square feet of dynamat xtreme per door. That includes door panel.
6ish square feet of luxury liner pro per door
dynamat deflex panel behind each mid. I already had them so figured why not

My vehicle is much quieter on the highway. Not that it was noisy beforehand but you can def tell a difference. I really need to do the rear doors now. I could hear a little noise coming from back there now.