Recommendation on Floor Coating?

[gt1guy]

I can't imagine how a thin noise coating would work, so I also would be inclined to skip it. I am newly interested in the heat reduction, since you say it actually works. We like to wear flip flops on the trail too, and the JK floor with no carpet gets just a little warm.

Can you ask your buddy if he did it on one side or two? Did he top-coat it with anything, or put carpet over it?

My buddy got back to me. They did 2 coats of the lizard skin (just inside the tub). He also said he painted over it with Rustoleum black months later.

I'll change my post above, I knew he didn't paint over it when he got it done. He just did it later.

 

[subybaja]

Monstaliner for me.

Damm That is fucking clean! NICE!

^this.

 

[gt1guy]

Noticeable sound reduction?

I've never understood why they say use a coat of heat and a coat of sound.

Does the heat have ceramic in it or something? I'd be more inclined to not use the sound and go straight for heat.

I don't really understand that either. I bought both the heat insulation and the sound control. Naturally, I probably bought enough to do 3 Jeeps.
According to their site, the heat control does have ceramic in it. It says 70.6% solids. I'm not going to pretend I know if that's the % of ceramic in it or not.

The sound control actually sounds like a version of what was slathered all over the inside my JKU tub from the factory. It's mostly on large flat parts of the floor, maybe 1/8"-1/4" thick and it's hard as rock. Just seems to be there to stop the thin ass sheet metal from vibrating and driving you crazy.

 

[NDCjeepsmith]

The heat cure hard too? I was planning to do Lizard but I'd rather have something a tad more rubberized for inside the tub

 

[gt1guy]

The heat cure hard too? I was planning to do Lizard but I'd rather have something a tad more rubberized for inside the tub

The instructions for the Lizard skin say not to use heat to force it to cure faster, actually says it will make it take longer. Sounds to me like it might form a skin that makes it harder to off gas. Also says 24 to 36 hrs between spraying the sound control and the heat control.

 

[TTMotorsports]

I'm going to install some kill mat type heat/sound deadener on the floors and firewall/back wall of my ford. I will then spray Raptor Liner on top of that. Where my feet are going to be I have some 3/16" thick rubber I will cut to put ontop of that. My floor is all fabricated panels and flat so flat rubber will work fine for my application.

 

[toomany]

I've got one truck done with both LizardSkin products already (posted earlier up top), was happy with how that turned out so I did a second.

Again did both the sound and heat control. This project is still a little ways from being on the road so no results from it yet.

I believe those were the second coat of the first product. The second coat dries darker.

Prep work was epoxy prime, seam seal then LizardSkin. I buy the smaller (1.5 gallon?) buckets. One bucket of the sound control was enough to do two coats on the bottom of the 70 K5 tub with a little extra. Same size of the heat control was only able to get on coat and that was pushing it if I remember correctly. The heat control is definitely less dense, bucket weight is considerably lighter and you can see the beads in it before mixing.

Plan to do the inside of the tub once I get to that stage.

 

[reptillikus]

Im curious how durable the Lizard Skin is, and how well it muffles sound.

I shot Al's Liner + HNR in both my broncos.

Al's HNR does a pretty good job of blocking the heat. Previously all i had was floor mats on bare sheetmetal, and the big block would cook you in the summer. Now you barely notice the heat. The problem is that their bed linder doesnt adhere to their heat & noise reducer very well. Two broncos now, same problem in both. Ive read of many other people having the same problem as well. Something to do with the HNR. Next time i think id like to try the Lizard Skin, if it actually works.

 

[gt1guy]

This is just my opinion but, I think all the different sound reducing products just form a dense skin that stops thin flat panels from vibrating.

 

[fl0w3n]

I saw Lizard Skin in person for the first time Monday at a shop, the shop owner told me it's great but not meant to be durable - covering it with a rubber floor mat afterwards is what he recommended. Didn't get much detail other than that so take it for what it's worth.

For those of you that just went to straight RockAuto rubber, did you leave the carpet backing in or just do straight rubber? Does the rubber cut down enough heat by itself?

I'd like to gut my XJ, but it's not nice enough that I'm going to go through the effort of spraying anything in... rubber floor sounds easy enough