Built-In Quiet Is Built-In Value

Quiet equals quality among today’s luxury-conscious automotive consumers where it often is as important as styling and performance in shaping customer value perceptions. The world’s automakers have responded with a variety of add-on treatments to attenuate the powertrain vibration and keep it out of the passenger compartment.

But, add-on treatments represent add-on costs and additional manufacturing and assembly issues. MSC offers a better alternative with unique material solutions for Powertrain applications that damp vibration at the source before it has an opportunity to penetrate the interior of the vehicle.

Replacing traditional materials with MSC Quiet Steel^® in engine valve and front covers, baffles, windage trays, brackets, pulleys, oil pans, transmission pans and covers can significantly reduce radiated underhood noise at the source. Quiet Steel^® is a unique Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) damping material that uses an engineered viscoelastic layer laminated between two sheets of steel to meet application-specific damping, temperature, stiffness and operating environment needs.

Where both NVH and weight are issues, MSC Quiet Aluminum^® has the same Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) damping performance as MSC Quiet Steel^® but with only 66-percent of the mass. And for engine and transmission castings, MSC MagnaDamp, Sound Trap^® and Quiet Patch^® offer engineered solutions that can be applied economically during routine manufacturing and assembly operations.