Hey, sounds like I made the right choice by not booting my truck..
friend of mine has a D-50 booted, but then again how loud can a mini
truck with road tires be? Anyway, what would have been cool, would to
be bolting a couch in the back of the truck, and putting seatbelts in
it. Then you could haul extra passengers, have more leg room, and not
go deaf! But aren't there laws against doing that?
Dan
===
94 Dakota Sport V6 3.21 5spd (currently stock :( )
---John Neff <^jndneff^@flash.net> wrote:
>
> I had a walk through on my lowered 83 Toyota. It was done the same way
> as Dan's, i.e. removed rear windows, and cut out rear wall of cab and
> front of bed, then used an RV accordian boot to join the cab and
bed. It
> never leaked water, even when tested with a high pressure sprayer at
the
> car wash. I had the truck in that configuration for @5 years before I
> sold the truck. The walk through was cool looking, gave me a couple of
> very much needed leg room (I'm 6'2", and the truck was a standard cab)
> and also extended the length of the bed when I needed to haul
something
> longer than 7 1/2' as I could slide it between the front seats if it
was
> narrow, and still be able to close the window on the shell. Those were
> the good things about the walk through. I would NOT do it again! It
was
> LOUD!! I had a full carpet kit in the bed, with carpet insulation
under
> the carpet, and there was so much road noise transmitting through the
> floor and resonating inside the shell, it was nearly unbearable. Now
my
> ears are a little more sensitive to specific frequencies, I'm going
tone
> deaf just ask my wife, but other people also commented on how loud the
> road noise was coming from the back. I had no exhaust mods, and there
> was nothing mechanically wrong with the truck that could have caused
the
> noise, it was pure road noise. It was so loud, you would have to
either
> yell to your passenger to talk when on the highway, or turn down the
> stereo, which had to be cranked to hear it very well over the noise.
> Even if the stereo was turned down, you still had to raise your voice
> pretty high to be heard. When I would get off the highway, the stereo
> was so loud, you would have to turn it down. I ended up wearing the
> paint off of the volume buttons on the deck, because I had to change
it
> so often. The best noise absorber I found came quite by accident. I
was
> moving and had my couch in the back of the truck. Now that was nice. I
> wish I had a couch I could have kept back there as it was large enough
> to absorb most all of the noise. Having been there, I would strongly
> suggest NOT cutting the wall out of your truck. If you are dead set on
> doing it, and do not plan on building a sub woofer wall, I would find
> someone who has a walk through and go for a long ride with them on the
> highway, that way you know what it will sound like.
>
> John
> 98 Dak CC 4X4 Sport, 5.2L, AUTO!, 3.92LSD, DDBC, T&H Package, Power
> Everything, Nerf Bars, Billet Grill, TSB#19-12-97, this baby sure is
> quiet, I can talk at a normal volume and still be heard when on the
> highway
>
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