[911Freak]

Originally Posted by look 171

Who's your sound deadening person? Does he drive an old white Mustang? This person I talked to sometime ago moved into my neighborhood (up the street) and claims he worked on the sound stuff for Singer. He came from the air craft industry. I was not driving a Porsche when we met, but he was a little funky to the point of not wanted to talk, not even about his Mustang. Forgotten his name, I have not spoken to him since

That guy in the white mustang is Olen, he did the original formula. However, it was insufficient for modern levels of NVH control. I personally did the updated study and the testing on the cars. We are able to drop the db levels as much as 10-15db and in some areas much more. I documented the study on more then 10 of the cars while I was production manager and test/shake down driver. I examined modern GT cars and luxury cars for their manufacturing strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately we retrofitted many of the first 12 cars. The formula followed now based on the testing is lighter by 10+lbs and - 10- 15db. The cars are so quiet and solid even with the large tires, big motor and monoball rears, yet you still can hear and feel the important stuff. It wasn't overly muted.

It's not necessarily secret sauce as much as it is an understanding all of the material choices available, knowing every nook and cranny of the body as well as how and where the panels are bonded.

I'd do a walk around tech talk of a stripped 964/911 chassis to detail if the offer ever came.


PS. The Green car pictured above was "optimized" in England. Nothing done on those at Aria. We shipped them various donor cars that were prepped in different stages. Williams guys spent a lot of time with us in the shop at SoCal understanding what we do for the standard car. Singer has staff in England for several years now.