Millie The Mini's Ice Upgrade.

Any idea how much weight you've added by putting all that sound deadening etc.. in? I've always wondered how much weight you add when you do a job properly like you are... Looks good though, really neat install.

Around 80 sheets of the 2mm silent coat stuff which is about 24kg
Around 24 sheets of the 10mm closed cell foam which doesn't weight much
And 2 sheets of MLV weighing 4.5kg.
So about 30kg which is a lot to a mini but I'm not into the speed side of things (yet anyway lol) so hopefully it's as quiet a morgue.....well apart from my music playing.

 

Any idea how much weight you've added by putting all that sound deadening etc.. in? I've always wondered how much weight you add when you do a job properly like you are... Looks good though, really neat install.

Around 80 sheets of the 2mm silent coat stuff which is about 24kg
Around 24 sheets of the 10mm closed cell foam which doesn't weight much
And 2 sheets of MLV weighing 4.5kg.
So about 30kg which is a lot to a mini but I'm not into the speed side of things (yet anyway lol) so hopefully it's as quiet a morgue.....well apart from my music playing.

 

 

hmm not as bad I thought! I reckon it will be pretty damn quiet in there!

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That's looking sweet, I haven't been on in a while but it's really good to see such great workmanship and progress on your sound install.

Loving this, seems to be the only active ICE thread left!! More please!!

Here's the dash covered and ready to fit all the necessary parts. I have also covered the amp rack cover, photos as usual.  1445897555146.jpg   44.55K   43 downloads

Over the weekend with the weather being s#%%y I thought I would refurb my amps, they are both old school alpine amps a mrv340 and a mrv420 they originally came with the access flap aluminium and the heat sink Matt black. The colour of the mini (not yet tho) is going to be Toyota grey IE9 so I decided to paint the aluminium part the same colour so primed first then added the base coat and finally the top coat and also freshened up the Matt black too.  image.jpeg   52.51K   6 downloads  image.jpeg   65.41K   4 downloads  image.jpeg   67.77K   2 downloads  image.jpeg   51.91K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   52.62K   3 downloads

I'm still working on this just haven't done any big jobs just a few time consuming small ones. Added voltmeters to my alpine's to match the Alpine MRD501. Also been working more on the centre console building some savage switch panels.  image.jpeg   46.2K   2 downloads  image.jpeg   49.38K   2 downloads  image.jpeg   46.35K   3 downloads  image.jpeg   52.81K   2 downloads  image.jpeg   43.45K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   39.28K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   46.93K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   50.07K   11 downloads  image.jpeg   44.88K   6 downloads  image.jpeg   50.96K   6 downloads  image.jpeg   44.69K   7 downloads

Edited by Juniors mini, 07 February 2016 - 09:43 PM.

Managed to get the front panel all glued together for the centre console, now all the components are just sat in place to get a rough look. Still need filling, sanding, routing, covering and I also still need to make the cut outs for the heater too.  image.jpeg   47.76K   17 downloads  image.jpeg   47K   9 downloads  image.jpeg   43.64K   16 downloads  image.jpeg   48.37K   5 downloads  image.jpeg   47.08K   24 downloads

It's been a few months since I've updated this thread, there has been a change with the back seat layout slightly. Also nearly finished the centre console to.  image.jpeg   46.93K   11 downloads  image.jpeg   47.92K   10 downloads  image.jpeg   45.74K   4 downloads  image.jpeg   47.59K   3 downloads  image.jpeg   44.89K   5 downloads  image.jpeg   47.13K   2 downloads  image.jpeg   52.72K   3 downloads  image.jpeg   48.07K   6 downloads  image.jpeg   48.37K   4 downloads  image.jpeg   41.73K   1 downloads  image.jpeg   45.28K   5 downloads  image.jpeg   46.36K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   39.06K   5 downloads  image.jpeg   51.45K   1 downloads  image.jpeg   46.62K   0 downloads  image.jpeg   51.2K   8 downloads

Out of interest, do you know how much weight all the hardware will be adding, what with the MDF, fiberglass, amps, cabling, sub, dynamat etc?

Out of interest, do you know how much weight all the hardware will be adding, what with the MDF, fiberglass, amps, cabling, sub, dynamat etc?

I would say
soundeading 30kg
Amp rack 15kg
Sub box 10kg
Boot lining 5kg
Cables, fuse boxes etc etc 10kg
Extra battery? 10kg

Total: 80kg, so it's just like driving round with another me in the car.

What an excellent thread. Following closely!

Love this, can't wait to see some more. I'm just at the early stages of sound deadening my car. Don't want to add amps or a sub, and want to keep my back seats (for the dog!) but love what you're doing. Looks really professional.

That's the seat bench starting to take shape, the centre part won't look as odd when the console meets up to it. Then it time to move onto the front to back centre console (between the seats). Inbetween the seats shall go either a fire extinguisher or a Maglite 3cell torch.  image.jpeg   46.03K   8 downloads  image.jpeg   43.9K   5 downloads  image.jpeg   52.67K   7 downloads  image.jpeg   51.29K   3 downloads  image.jpeg   51.33K   3 downloads