sound deadening material

[rubicon]

I'm thinking about putting sound deadening material on the outside of my fiberglass top before I cover it with topping material. Took the T out and the top acts like a drum skin. Every little ding, ping, clunk and rattle you clearly could hear. It will be a black top so I would think the aluminium foil facing out would help keep it cooler inside and cut down on the noise. Anybody use this stuff?

 

[choppedtop]

I have it one car top (steel body) and it does help. One my glass sedan, it have the honey comb stuff that Spirit uses. It is cooler than the steel car. Make sure that you put the shiny side to the fiber glass. It will deflect the heat back into the glass and should help.

 

[rubicon]

Can you remove it with a heat gun or some other method that won't harm the glass?

 

[choppedtop]

Never attempted removing it. Don't think it would be any fun at all.

 

[fletcherson]

Just a FYI, not a suggestion, but some canopies and cabs that are installed on tractors have fans installed in the top to blow down and cool the driver... just a thought. (I am contemplating a new to me tractor)