Re: no Audi content

[dieckeaw@plu.edu]

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Psycho Bob wrote:

> I was darn bored today and decided to clean up my bill-fold thingie. I
> pulled my driver's license, among others, and kinda looked at it all
> over. On the backside of the license, under Restriction Codes (oh, this
> is Nebraska license) there's a code "L" described as "Vehicles Without
> Air Brakes." Now, the only vehicle I know of having air brakes are the
> Mitsu HSR experimental autos. Sooooo, what do they meant by "air
> brakes?"

18 wheelers and busses have air brakes.  That's the rather flatulant 
noise you hear every time the driver releases the brakes.  Your license 
did say "vehicles," not "cars," right?

 > Also the absolutely no Audi content topic...
> 
> I was looking through the J.C. Whitney catalog and was interested in one
> of those noise-killer pads that you stick to the inside of body panels.
> There seems to be three kinds: rubber, asphalt-based, and then multi-layer 
> foam-vinyl-Mylar kind. So which one would kill the noise most in auto 
> application?

Read an article on Dynamat dampners in one of my old car stereo rags.  
They guy totally gutted the interior of the car, layered it with this 
stuff, including the underside of the hood.  The result was about a 10 dB 
reduction in noise and a LOT of weight added to the car (this stuff ain't 
light).  Anything less than what this guy did would probably net a 
marginal drop in sound, but add a lot of "fat," as Eric so fondly calles 
it.  You're better off buying a bigger amp and turning the volume up 8^)

-Adam 







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