Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:36:40 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Bass experiment
Comments: To: marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET
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What about a ten on either side of the heater, then when it leaks both
explode... tens are tighter than twelves... so I'd rather have them... Think
I'd rather use a pelonis with its thermostat... (need to go to home depot...
)


>From: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>

>
>I wouldn't remove the rear heater; I'd fix it.  My girls like being
>warm.  :^)  I'd put something like a 10" or 12" subwoofer on the
>passenger side of the heater.  I've seen it done on someone else's
>Vanagon, just can't remember whose or where . . .
>
>Marc
>
>Mark Dorm wrote:
>
> > If you were to remove the rear heater ...(when that thing breaks and
> > floods it really sucks - coolant and water everywhere, then you have
> > to take the carpet to the carwash because if you leave the coolant in
> > the rug it'll suck moisture out of the air, and you'll always have a
> > puddle of water on your rug)... then you have a hole already cut out
> > for the bass... is that a good placement? Does being centered make a
> > difference? At least when parked there wouldn't be anything that made
> > your vanagon look like it had something other vanagons didn't... >
> > If >I were to tweak it out, I'd probably put a subwoofer in the front
> > panel beneath
> >
> > >the rear bench seat and put an amplifier under the seat for it.
> >
> >
> >
> > > I presume you're putting (or have already put)
> >
> > >sound deadening material on the metal panels of the doors? Makes a
> > heckofa
> > >difference!
> > >
> >
> > >Marc Perdue
> >
> >
> >
> > Whats your favorite manufacture of this stuff? ? ? Does the moisture
> > barrier help at all too? (mine have been removed)
> > >
> >
> >
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