Car Thread

[glenthemole]

[James S]

[James S]

[Cameron]

[James S]

[NYIllustrator]

[Maf54]

Thats one of the few reasons I like my grandam being big and heavy, it does fairly well on the noise level. I am interested in this stuff though because our city has noise polution laws.

[Warren]

My car makes absolutely no rattle or anything. Once in a while, the ring around the CD player will vibrate, but that's aftermarket stuff. It's not the weight of a car that determines it's noise, it's the materials used and the quality of the build. We rented a Chevy Venture minivan, and that piece of crap made soo much noise! My dad's new 100% German made Jetta (the Jetta Wagons are completely made in Germany, unlike the others, which are assembled in Mexico), and that makes even less noise than my car, it's like a solid brick.

[James S]

Brown Bread is made by the same company that makes Dynamat. Brown Bread is actually thinner and provides better sound deadening, but it's more expensive. I'm doubling up with both sound deadening and sound absorbing to get double the flavor, double the fun. The VComp (foam composite) absorbs sound, the Brown Broad mass loads so that the panels don't creak and theoretically become one, it also adds thickness to block some sound and reflect it back. The foam will absorb any sound that gets through and stop it from entering the cabin.

[James S]

New brighter morning pics of my car completely gutted. 56kers beware:
http://rain.prohosting.com/~moosem/car_quiet/

Installation of sound deadening begins after I hit submit.

[James S]

Update: These are pictures of the first piece of sound deadening that I installed and a picture of the progress as of 12 noon this morning. The product of 3:30 to 4 hours of labor. I'm doing an intricate job on the door, and that's what was slowing me up.

http://rain.prohosting.com/~moosem/car_quiet/after.html

[James S]

[Warren]

I went to the Terryville VW Show on Sunday, and came back with 2nd place in A3 Stock Class! There were (including mine) 3 Golf Harlequins, the most ever at a VW show! We parked all together to get nice pictures, and (I'm sure the judge was a little biased) we all won, 1st 2nd and 3rd, out of 7 cars in the class (there were about 300 cars there). So, that's my news.

[James S]

cool, congrats.