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In the high frequency range, the SEA method has been applied to air borne path with success to predict both internal and external sound environment. Nevertheless, structure-borne prediction is still at issue -especially for cars, in the range 200 to 2000 Hz- as results are widely dependant on subsystem partition and validity of various assumptions required by SEA. Experimental SEA test technique (ESEA), applied to car bodies, has brought to the fore that SEA power balanced equations could robustly describe structure-borne noise. To make ESEA predictive, the database of measured FRF is simply replaced and enlarged by synthesized data generated from a finite element (FE) model and a selected observation grid of nodes. This technique, called Virtual SEA (VSEA), has been presented at SAE/NVC 2003.