

| Subject: | Re: noise reduction |
| From: | Jack |
| Date: | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:00:14 -0800 |
Has anyone been able yet to quantify roughly how much noise is wind vs road vs drive, etc.? It seems like the current investigation is beginning to point mostly at road noise. But maybe I'm wrong. I seem to remember that luxury cars, such as Rolls, use pads of woven metal at certain (all?) suspension/frame interfaces to dampen direct coupling of road noise into the frame & body metal. I suppose this makes the job of noise suppression within the body easier (or practical?). My point is that trying to dampen significant amounts of noise in the existing Vanagon design may take heroic measures; perhaps it's not even possible. Is it realistic to consider attacking road noise coupling points on the Vanagon ala Rolls? If feasible, this might be simpler with a larger pay- back in noise reduction, especially when combined with reasonable amounts of harmonic dampening materials on critical panels. Totally out of my area, but I'm still interested in reading about the investigation that's going on now. Hope those that are working on it continue to report. //Jack
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