Got a quick question for you. Are you sure it is speed related and not
rpm related?
I only ask because my alternator fan whistles at 2700 - 3200 rpm. I
determined that when I had no alternator and when I put the new one in
the whistle was back. It sounds kinda like a serious vacuum leak.
Larry
>>>>On 7/11/99 7:42 PM so and so (Frank Clarici) said. (And I quote:)
>Fellow side curtain drivers
>
>I have a whistle in my Bugeye that starts at 45 mph and goes away at 60
>mph.
>This is a whistle that sounds like it is coming from the right side.
>The top is off and no side screens on. I can not find it. My wife tried
>blocking the antennea, cupping all corners of the windscreen, door
>opening, even what she could reach on the back side of the bonnet. Still
>whistles. It is not coming from under the windscreen rubber.
>It was not there last year, it has been there since I installed the
>sloted wheels.
>Could it be the slots? That is the only difference to the car but why
>only one (right front) wheel if it is the wheel?
>It sure sounds like it is coming from the antennea but I would think
>cupping hands all over it would find the whistle.
>For a cure I just go faster then 60 but I have to go thru the 40s and
>50s to get there and sometimes traffic does not allow 65+.
>It is driving me nuts, it is a high pitched whistle most annoying @ 55
>MPH!
>Any Ideas?
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Bugeye Sprite
>67 Sprite
>59 A40
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up.
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
gates?
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