I am in love with my F2000 but, it has always been noisy. The noise due mostly to the fact that the body is one huge resonance chamber. One trip to the craft store, $5 dollars of adhesive foam, 2 paper cuts and 10 hours later I came up with this solution:
The soft foam acts as a vibration dampener all throughout the body. It has taken the sharp whack off the gearbox's cycling noise. In future I hope to add a sorbo and tightbore to further reduce the noise.
If you are feeling like doing this to your F2000 here are my stencils
