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Old 01-17-2011, 08:25 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Read this thread, those addressing the issue have taken the time to post thoughtful, helpful, well reasoned and very well written comments that are on topic and of real value to many of us. And then there are those other posts that are sarcastic and dismiss the whole subject out of hand. Everyone here knows that the Z is a sports car, and that with its emphasis on performance it will ride rougher and be louder than most cars. So why restate the obvious and in an unpleasant manner to boot? It serves no purpose and after awhile becomes rather irritating.
You can most certainly add hundreds of dollars worth of sound deadening material to the car. Gut the interior, pad it, Dynamat it and whatever else works, then put it all back together... or pay someone to do it.
My wife's Mercedes has a carpet-life material in the fenderwells that does an amazing job at reducing the noise of gravel and stones that get kicked up. If you can source some of that stuff and add it to the 370Z, that would probably help a lot.
You can shop for the quietest tires on the market and replace the stock Potenzas.
At the end of it all, it probably still won't be quiet enough (as illustrated by the disappointing results experienced by some posters) and you will have spent a lot of money and time on trying to make the 370Z something it's not. It's not a BMW, Audi or Lexus. Take out the "performance" part of the equation, and you're left with a simple matter of economics. I'm sure it costs less to skip all the sound deadening measures that are incorporated into the aforementioned luxury brands.
If a quiet cabin was high on your priority list when shopping for cars, you made the wrong choice, plain and simple.
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