Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by phin

Ahh yes, heat. I forgot about that. I could imagine encasing the overdrive would be a bad move...

The material I mentioned - mass loaded vinyl - is simply vinyl loaded with barium to make it much heavier thereby improving its properties as a sound barrier. I've been using it quite a bit to reduce noise from the engine. Haven't got fast enough to really test it, but cabin noise seems a bit lower already.

cheers

Any chance you could post a pic of this stuff? Where do you get it?

A little fillum. I hope it loads alright...

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Any chance you could post a pic of this stuff? Where do you get it?

I've been using two types: the first is just the vinyl itself, around 3mm think, straight off the roll. The other type is stuck to 5mm closed cell foam with a self adhesive backing. The foam acts as a decoupling layer and improves the performance of the barrier (or so I'm told). This is what the closed cell foam/mass loaded vinyl combination looks like:



I got it from http://www.higginsinsulation.com.au/ - they are in Footscray which won't be much good to you but also have a Brisbane warehouse which might be more helpful. Their website appears to be broken though.

cheers Phin

Good grief there's been some progress here since I saw it last!

It looks the business and is a real credit to you, well done, now all the hard work will pay off

Hey up,

Nothing new to add, except that "normal" service will be resumed on this thread soon. Still a little way to go....

Cheers,

John

P.S. Happy New(ish) Year.

Blimey! He breathes...



I hope it was a darn good hol

He does indeed. Yep, it was a blimmin' terrific break (though I of course missed the Landy very much).

I arrived home, hit the starter button on the Landy and headed to the shops for some milk for a nice cup of tea and a sit down. Only thing missing was biscuits.

More thrilling adventures like that to come.

A thing arrived today.

But let me start at the beginning.

Along with "Frozen ****in' Bananas", one key expression has become vital to the success of this project: "Mass Loaded Vinyl".

After seeing Phin's advice, I did some interweb searching and today this thing arrived at my house. It's very heavy. I guess that's where the "mass" bit comes in.

I bought 3m of 8kg/sq.m mass loaded vinyl (MLV to its friends). The 10kg/sq.m stuff wa not available from the supplier at the time and, well, since I bought a lot I thought "Mustn't grumble".

I'll start with the transmission tunnel and front floor, then think about what I might do with the seat base (though I don't want to cover it and will avoid doing so if possible) and rear loadspace.

I'll back it with some closed cell foam and then just take it from there. Got enough for quite a sandwich over the ol' transmission tunnel. Whatever I finish with will be covered by some nice chequer-finish rubber mat.

Righto, I'm off to eat a frozen banana.

John