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How quiet is your interior?
For you guys whos interior is like lexus quiet, can you hear the engine whist driving? Want to pad up the car!
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Surround the engine with a concrete block! It maybe just me but I like to be involved with my cars' mechanicals both tactily and aurially. A Lexus is the last vehicle I would buy for this very reason.
The trouble with the transmission of NVH is that most of itin a car is structure borne so that isolating the source from the structure invariably means squidgy rubbers evrywhere that will reduce my tactile connectivity (its big word Thursday). |
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I like the engine noise, but I don't like wind noise, so one thing I did that made a major difference is I put a strip of self-adhesive weather strip up the leading edge of the door sill and the door, so that when closed it made a secondary seal. It made a huge difference and made a high speed drive quite a bit more pleasant.
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Thats a good idea Jason, irritating the wind noise. I like the metallic sound of the engine too but its for my 2nd car which my wife will be driving.
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Before we left, I did this: It looks like crap, but that really helped! At 130 km/h (80mph) I could still have a conversation with my wife without having to shout! The white strip looks terrible, so I am still looking for black versions of these foam strips. Then I want to put one all the way from the top of the door to the bottem of the door. That will not look bad at all, I think. A sample of the noise at 150 km/h: Youtube video
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Good idea Jason/Gerrelt. I was thinking that I could wear ear defenders in the bug so that I couldn't hear the car noise but most importantly the wife!!. I can then use the excuse that the bug makes too much noise for any conversation - Whoopee.
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Gerrelt, you made my day
I've got alot of insulation in my bug and the Subaru engine runs alot quieter than VW the problem I also have is wind noise and it nearly all comes from that same area. I hadn't thought of sealing foam in the gap
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I used almost 5 rolls of dynamat when I put my car together. It is far from "Lexus" quiet. I still hear and feel the drivetrain. But I like that. I can still hear the stereo well and have a conversation while driving. The doors sound nice and solid when you shut them. But I am still very connected to the drivetrain when driving. I do wish I had known about "Lizard Skin" when I built the car. I would have used it instead of the mat.
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After I installed my watercooled engine, I noticed the windnoise was louder at 120 km/h then the engine noise.
The windnoise is coming from the front windscreen. I read in a aerodynamics book that factory aero mods at the front are mostly meant for noise reduction, and aero mods at the back are drag/lift reduction. I did some changes, and that lowered the wind noise. It's not totally gone yet, but I think that will be nearly impossible with our 1930's based design. I will try the extra weather strip, Jason suggested. These are my mods uptill now: - Raingutter Fillers / A pillar deflectors - Vitaloni mirror - Antenna delete Another mod that I am planning is adapting blade-type windscreen wipers.
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I'd be happy with a Ghia w/o too much wind noise.
Engine noise...GOOOOOOD! Wind noise.....BAAAAAAAD! |
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