Gutting the Interior
GET A HELMS MANUAL!!! It saved me lots of time. Having a clear diagram of every clip and screw is good because then you'll know if something should be screwed out or pulled out. For the clips on the doors and anywhere else, work carefully. I broke one on the door because i rushed too much. Use a flathead screwdriver and work around the clip.

Painting Deadener
This crap is very hard to wash off. I still have blue jizz on my pants from it. Other than that, just paint the metal like it was real paint. Put a few layers so it looks and works better.
In terms of road noise, there was almost no difference. I drove it around before the tar mats and it was still noisy. I really can't say that this "viscoelastic deadener" had a practical purpose, but it looked cool under the sun. And the material is kinda elastic when you stretch it.

Applying Tar Mats
Use a pair of good scissors and a razor blade. Because the mats had tar, I had to wash the scissors after cutting a few 1'x1' squares. Ajax worked really well. Use a hair dryer on all the pieces so that it's easier to apply. Don't count on stretching the mat to cover more ground cuz it'll just shrink back to the original size. For the floor, bubbles showed up after a few days so i just cut them with a razor blade.
I tested the mats against water by putting a small piece on a soda can then spraying it with a hose. It stayed on really well, so I hope that the mats on the inside of the doors stay up during rain. However, 13secondcivic from www.purehonda.com said that the mats put vertically fell over. I don't have any doubt that this'll happen cuz the material seems pretty cheap. oh well, at least the tar mats on the floor will stay. Oh, and the smell...I can still smell a little bit of tar in my car on a hot day.

Conclusion
I can't recommend B-quiet until I see more reviews of Rockford Fosgate(Lighning Audio) Noisekiller, Dynamat tar mats, B-Quiet tar mats, and B-Quiet deadener. I'm still questioning the effectiveness of B-Quiet's deadener over Rockford Fosgate's. The tar mats cut down door panel rattles a lot, but then again, if you stuff anything between the panel and metal, rattles will go away. As for the floor, noise reduction was a little noticable. The "high notes" of road noise were gone, but you can still hear "low notes".
So do I recommend gutting your interior and putting all this stuff in? Since it's difficult to switch from B-quiet to Dynamat, I only recommend B-quiet for amateurs (like me!) on a budget. If there's some annoying rattle somewhere, or if you like taking your car apart and don't want to spend a lot of money, B-Quiet is great. For audio competitions, you can use 6 layers of B-Quiet (like the featured installs in www.b-quiet.com) or a couple of layers of Dynamat. You'd still be spending the same amount of money to reduce the same amount of noise in my opinion.

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