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I'm excited to have a running diesel truck to play with and the mechanical music is lovely don't get me wrong, but she's a noisy bitch. Real noisy. Too loud. Not exhaust loud but just metal motor sounds. Right now the carpet is out, because it was bad, and waiting for new one but driving around is really a lot of wracket.
What are some strategies to quiet down? I've placed a lot of butyl fat-mat type material over any sheet metal that wasn't factory soundproofed already, which about 50% of the metal was. Any other ideas?
I get a lot of wind noise. Haven't done anything about it yet because I don't really care since I normally don't listen to the radio or anything other than the engine and wind noise, but it will make a big difference to R&R/replace the door seals.
Almost forgot, the best sound deadener I've found for a 6.0 is 4 oz of Amsoil Cetane Boost/20 gallons of diesel + the commonly recommended dose of 1 oz per gallon of TC-W3. Smoothest combo I've found.
I did not take any DB readings before & after as I was in a rush to finish before 2 week family vacation this past July (MN to New Mexico & back 3,400m). What I can tell you is the hood quieted down the engine noise I would say by 10-15% (not a lot but I think it was worth it). The 4 doors + rear of truck cut down road noise by at least 30% if not more. I can run my truck tomorrow at 60 mph & take a iPhone DB reading but would need to wait until Monday to use a pro-grade DB meter from work. I replaced the front speakers with Alpines & then a new Pioneer AVH-5800BHS touch screen deck. I hope to add more sound upgrades in the future. I have already purchased a small Alpine 4x50 watt amp & plan to get 6.5" Alpines separates for front & move 5x7 Alpines to the rear & then add 2-6" Bazooka powered subs in back. I can't use 8" without building a custom bracket to move rear seats forward roughly 1.5". Oh well.
Lol so your plan is to overpower the bad noise with good noise?
Unrelated question, does your touch screen deck give you ability to run apps like torque? I'm loooking for one that will run android with torque but I'd love to somehow know which one, if any, will let the app start automatically when the power is pressed, or ideally just start up with the truck and go straight to the torque app. Also curios if I can run torque app and music at the same time.
3 video inputs aka composite video but not an Android operating system. I can have my camper camera on with music still playing. I am not familiar with the app but believe you need an Android OS device. I use a CTS in color to monitor stats. Cheers!
Lol so your plan is to overpower the bad noise with good noise?
Unrelated question, does your touch screen deck give you ability to run apps like torque? I'm loooking for one that will run android with torque but I'd love to somehow know which one, if any, will let the app start automatically when the power is pressed, or ideally just start up with the truck and go straight to the torque app. Also curios if I can run torque app and music at the same time.
I can't think of his nick right now but one of the 6.0L guys is up on that subject.
