Use Dynamat or not

frost · 12-28-2009, 08:32 AM

Well, I generally hate to throw opinions around about this type of stuff, because you generally only get several people who don't agree arguing about their personal taste, but it sounds like you're specifically looking for people's biased opinions, so here you are:

I wouldn't buy a sports car and look for ways to add weight to it. I mean, if I had wanted a nice quiet ride, with plenty of room for a sub in the back, there are much better choices.

When the 370 came out, I was putting it against competitors such as the Camaro, Challenger, Stang and etc. Nissan did something with the 370 that was a tad unique; they didn't give it a ton more HP than the previous model, but they kept the weight roughly the same. The camaro for example; sure it went up around a 100 HP since the last generation, but it also increased weight by over 400 lbs.

Why would I tell you about the camaro when you're asking about dynamat? Nissan engineers went through a great deal of trouble to give you a car with not a deuce-load of HP, but a car that has a great mix of HP and weight that makes it a contender against "bruisers" like the camaro, where the idea is "we will just keep throwing weight on, and try to make up for it in HP."

But, it's all personal preference, if you don't track your car, and if lbs don't matter to you, no one is going to give you crap for it. Huff said above that the loss of 1/10 in quarter mile is no big deal to him, but for others, they invest thousands into gaining that 1/10.

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frost Retired admin Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Winterfell Posts: 106,613 Drives: Your Wife Crazy Rep Power: 0	Well, I generally hate to throw opinions around about this type of stuff, because you generally only get several people who don't agree arguing about their personal taste, but it sounds like you're specifically looking for people's biased opinions, so here you are: I wouldn't buy a sports car and look for ways to add weight to it. I mean, if I had wanted a nice quiet ride, with plenty of room for a sub in the back, there are much better choices. When the 370 came out, I was putting it against competitors such as the Camaro, Challenger, Stang and etc. Nissan did something with the 370 that was a tad unique; they didn't give it a ton more HP than the previous model, but they kept the weight roughly the same. The camaro for example; sure it went up around a 100 HP since the last generation, but it also increased weight by over 400 lbs. Why would I tell you about the camaro when you're asking about dynamat? Nissan engineers went through a great deal of trouble to give you a car with not a deuce-load of HP, but a car that has a great mix of HP and weight that makes it a contender against "bruisers" like the camaro, where the idea is "we will just keep throwing weight on, and try to make up for it in HP." But, it's all personal preference, if you don't track your car, and if lbs don't matter to you, no one is going to give you crap for it. Huff said above that the loss of 1/10 in quarter mile is no big deal to him, but for others, they invest thousands into gaining that 1/10.