

| Subject: | Re: Westfalia Noise (Vehicle engineering little VW) |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:29:27 -0400 |
well you luckily have a 73 version with the german V4 I was working on the new model for introduction in 69. the early ones had the 1600 cc in-line 4 with the crossflow head. This had a particularly bad secondary harmonic out of balance and I believe that the V4 had a harmonic balancer. To get the car to market they changed the engine mount location and spllit the drive shaft. the super heavy duty sound deadener did not get to market as it did not do the job. I still remember being in the back seat with a Bang & Olaffsen sound meter as we decellerated down the Boeham Wodd Runway with my ears hurting at 60 MPH. It was a perfect example of a highly tuned lowlydamped cavity. Boreham wood was a WWII fighter airfield that was bought by Ford for competetion & vehicle development. If I misspelt it it was called NVH. have fun sam
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