REVIEW: Great Stuff

[Hoffman5982]

Well I recently had an electrical problem causing my stereo to never turn on. After living with it for over a month, I got tired of it. So, I stripped the interior. At first it was just the dash so that I could get to the harness. Well, While I had that out, I figured I might as well do some other stuff I have been wanting to do right? So I pull the carpet out and paint/dye it black, and also fill the dead spaces up with Great Stuff. I'm not taking credit for this. There is a build on zilvia and that guy did it, which made me want to do it. He used 12 cans. I used 10. I filled the a,b, and some of c pillars, the rail that the front seats bilt into, and the big open tunnel(i guess thats what you could call it) that goes under the door sill. Let me go ahead and warn you, this is VERY messy. Take out every bit of interior panels, the seat belts, dash, etc. Don't keep anything in the car. You can pick up Great Stuff at Lowes, and maybe home depot, I didn't check. I paid about 3.48 a can and total about 30 dollars with military discount(you have to ask about it at lowes). The can looks like this with a yellow lid:

This stuff expands but I still filled each hole up, as you can see here: The guy from zilvia said this is basically like the heat activated sound deadening foam that ford used in their f-150s when they claimed to have the quietest interiors. When I first did mine my car was in the shade. after putting my seat back in to drive it to school a few days later, I came out and realized it expanded more in the heat, so be aware of that. One more warning, if you have a sunroof make sure it doesn't mess up the drainage tubes. When mine expanded it pull the drivers side front tube about an inch away from where it connected with the sun roof assembly.

Now for the review: I just got my car completely back together today and took it out for a drive. There is a major difference. of course your going to have road noise, but it is much less, and also the car sounds more secure I guess you could say when on bumpy roads whereas before it had a ton of vibration. It isn't too expensive and if you have your car stripped then I recommend this. Now enough reading, enjoy a few pics.

While I was working on the car I scored this headunit brand new for $100before: after:

also, as I mentioned I painted my carpet black. came out pretty nice before: after:

And just becasue, here's a pick of my old car. Never let me down, even though I drove the hell outta it. In all of its 205k mile auto transmission stock goodness, here's my first car and my first s14.I sure do miss her

[s13_chris]

Looks like a teenage boy found his first porno and was locked in your car with a roll of tissue paper. Yuck.

So what did you gain out of all this? Sound deadening? What happens if you ever want to run wire through those spots or anything like that?

[Hoffman5982]

Lol^

Well I don't know why you would want to run wire through there but if you did you wouldn't be able to. What I gained was a noticeably quieter ride. The road noise was reduced significantly. I explained it to my friend like this: you have all those open tubes. Think about if you took a pipe and hit it against something. It echoes a lot right? well the same thing happens with the car. the road noise echoes inside all those open spaces, and filling it up with this will prevent any echoing therefor giving you a quieter ride. For 40 bucks and a weekends worth of work, It really is worth it

[l2edken]

ive been thinking about that aswell, read about it on freshalloy... seems very interesting and reading a firsthand report somewhere else but freshalloy really makes me think. Some douchebag before me who owned the car thought that he was suppose to fill everythnig with it... BEHIND THE RADIO, under the dash, in the tire well area. Rediculous

[Hoffman5982]

ive been thinking about that aswell, read about it on freshalloy... seems very interesting and reading a firsthand report somewhere else but freshalloy really makes me think. Some douchebag before me who owned the car thought that he was suppose to fill everythnig with it... BEHIND THE RADIO, under the dash, in the tire well area. Rediculous

Wow. That sucks man. I can't imagine how messy that must be

[FolkertSX]

that build you posted was freakn sick. seeing that makes me want to join zilvia

[mRodiek]

So you dont like road noise? Hmm IMO I would look at another car. I love my road noise, as a matter of fact I like it better than my radio.

Youve also added some extra weight, although it probably isnt much, in a world of reducing weight you have added it, ironic.

that build you posted was freakn sick. seeing that makes me want to join zilvia

Zilvia isnt that bad, alot of information on there and alot of help if you ask the right question.

[Hoffman5982]

So you dont like road noise? Hmm IMO I would look at another car. I love my road noise, as a matter of fact I like it better than my radio.

Youve also added some extra weight, although it probably isnt much, in a world of reducing weight you have added it, ironic.

Zilvia isnt that bad, alot of information on there and alot of help if you ask the right question.

I don't like road noise, but I don't mind it. I love my car and I still would even if it was the loudest car out there. But if I can get it to be a pretty quiet ride then I'm going to. Your right about the weight but like you said it isn't much, maybe a few pounds at most.

[1SickSilvia]

[QUOTE=DriftBoy07]Youve also added some extra weight, although it probably isnt much, in a world of reducing weight you have added it, ironic.QUOTE]

Its not a significant amount of weight to even talk about, when dry, that stuff is like syrofoam, none the less, I wouldn't do it to my car, way to much work for very little gain. But to each their own, let him fill his empty cavities with whatever he wants jk/op
Modified by 1SickSilvia at 8:36 PM 10/30/2009

[P_856]

what did u use to paint the carpet?

[S14toRPS13]

When I was younger, I thought like a lot of people on here did too. I pretty much wanted a track car as a daily car. It could've been running over 100 db's and bouncing off every single pebble on the road and it wouldn't have bothered me. Now that I'm getting older, I still want to daily drive my 240, but it is getting a bit loud for my taste. This sounds like a very good idea.

[Tyler]

thats great stuff! haha! in all seriousness tho, i did this to my track car, it helps stiffen it a bit

[Future_gohan]

thats great stuff! haha! in all seriousness tho, i did this to my track car, it helps stiffen it a bit

Its really stiff, make your cage out of it, its amazing for that.

[Hoffman5982]

what did u use to paint the carpet?

I just used the duplicolor fabric and vinyl paint. its flat black. Don't mix duplicolor and rustoleum. even though they are both flat black duplicolor was a little darker

[zerepdivad]

Did you finally end up finding your switched wire?I actually planned on using great stuff on my daily driver sometime soon to quiet it up inside.

[Hoffman5982]

yea I finally found it. It's great having a working stereo again

[l2edken]

Zilvia isnt that bad, alot of information on there and alot of help if you ask the right question.

My thoughts exactly... I respect and participate in both Zilvia and NICO because, behind all the bulls***, there's some real helpful s***.