How loud to break windows?
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Mr. Big, you would have to agree that at a certain level of pressure a window would have to give way at some point no?
The only windows I have seen that have broken in an SPL contest if from fat people sitting all over the car. People then "claim" it was from the SPL, when in actuallity is was from the 10 guys you have pressing and sitting on the car.
But there has to be a point where the window can't take it anymore and shatter. Its just plain physics.
The only windows I have seen that have broken in an SPL contest if from fat people sitting all over the car. People then "claim" it was from the SPL, when in actuallity is was from the 10 guys you have pressing and sitting on the car.
But there has to be a point where the window can't take it anymore and shatter. Its just plain physics.
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Actually windshields do break from pressure on them. Anyone who has seen the Team Beyond Jimmy without the window braced knows what I mean.
It started busting windows around 168 on last years meters.
We put a new window in a day before a Battleford show and didn't brace it and it was destroyed in a fraction of a second with 176.8 dB.(high Termpro meter) The next day we had another new BRACED window in at a certified dB drag and no busted window.(certified 172.8)
With it braced we have not found the breaking point yet.
Basically for factory windows if you let them flex in the middle or edges it will break
[ November 25, 2003, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: dB Don ]
It started busting windows around 168 on last years meters.
We put a new window in a day before a Battleford show and didn't brace it and it was destroyed in a fraction of a second with 176.8 dB.(high Termpro meter) The next day we had another new BRACED window in at a certified dB drag and no busted window.(certified 172.8)
With it braced we have not found the breaking point yet.
Basically for factory windows if you let them flex in the middle or edges it will break
[ November 25, 2003, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: dB Don ]
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I recall the video of Alma's Bronco smashing the back window. As far as I know it only happened one time though and that thing bumps along pretty good.
Breaking windows is easy though - I know I've ran into at LEAST half a dozen guys who had a brother/cousin/buddy blow a window out of their ride
One dude even claimed his buddies suburban blew ALL the side windows simultaneously 
Breaking windows is easy though - I know I've ran into at LEAST half a dozen guys who had a brother/cousin/buddy blow a window out of their ride
One dude even claimed his buddies suburban blew ALL the side windows simultaneously
