>Bill;
>Congratulations on your great deal on the syncro westy!
>Hope you get a lot of fun out of it!
>
>I'm interested in your (or anyone else's) experience with
>the  McMaster-Carr sound proofing material.
>Any insight / opinions you can give as you do your soundproofing
>project would be appreciated.
>
>Also; has anyone had any experience with B-Quiet? soundproofing
>products?
>

rod, we got very, very lucky.  later on the day our downpayment arrived and
was deposited by eddie of armstrong cars, he got a call from a chap in las
vegas who was interested in paying as much as $9K for the same van, sight
unseen.  very, very lucky.

as for fun, we've just done our first long-distance cruise in it, and it
behaved admirably.  colder than we expected at night, ran faster than i
expected on the highway (up and down hills, etc.), but did the vanagon
syndrome thing after about four hours of 60-70mph driving in hot weather.
i have to check other things, but may do the capacitor or the harness fix.

my experience with mcm-c so far has been great.  put the order in thursday
morning by credit card and the sheets arrived friday afternoon.  heavy
suckers.  backed with brown paper, they're grey and stickybacked.  i
compared them in thickness and in dB reduction with other sheets, according
to spec, and it seems to be the same stuff as BQuiet and Dynamat, just
very, very generic.  i will report back after i get the stuff in.

today i am going to deal with the rust on the floor, then tonight i'll
start cutting pieces to fit.  i am also going to change my tranny oil,
front diff oil, and motor oil.  should be fun!

b
'87 syncro westfalia
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