My favorite engine sound?
When you fire up an engine for the first time after major work and it starts and runs as intended.
My favorite engine sound?
When you fire up an engine for the first time after major work and it starts and runs as intended.
Brotus7 said:This made me tingle the first time I heard one in person.
Well since You went there, how about the funky growl an A10 makes.
I often wonder how much is motor and how much is exhaust/intake? For instance, the Alfa Busso V6s are generally considered among the best sounding 6 cylinders ever, while it's popular to rag on the Nissan VQs. What's the real difference between them?
High revving small five cylinders with giant turbos that surge most angry.
Has got to be RX-8 at 9000 rpm
2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona Mazda RX-8 Rotary Sound #1 - YouTube
sounds like F1 before turbos
Zombie thread
but it makes me think of another.
VQ35 in a Z. They made some sweet sounds from the factory. In fact, I've yet to hear an aftermarket exhaust that sounded better than the stock one.
And then there's the time that my mostly deaf 90-year-old father shot out of his chair and went racing out the front door of my house before I even heard the radial engines coming over the house at treetop level. Four T-6 engines flying below 100 ft make quite a sound.
I can so relate to this and I'm in my '60's. Occasionally the WW2 Warbirds fly over my house in Houston. I'm out the door before my wife even hears those radial engines.
In reply to f1carguy :
Then why not just pick an F1 car? 18K RPM > 9K RPM.
Can't believe didn't comment originally.
5 cylinder Honda 125 GP bike.
Continental GTSIO 520 , horizontally opposed turbocharged 6 cyliders, on a Cessna 404 or 421 at climb power settings. General Electric CJ-610 turbojets while pacticing stall recovery in a Lear 24.
yupididit said:euro_fam said:I'm a big fan of the maserati exhaust note. I don't think i'd ever actually buy one of them given how many (arguably better) alternatives there are but something about their high-rev exhaust hits me good.
For about $15k you can find you one of these
I just said "oh god" out loud to myself. Can one of those fit in an mg midget engine bay?
Also, CBX 1000
yupididit said:
Wringing out the s85 bmw v10.
The fun starts around 40 seconds.... that 8k+ rpm pull from the 54 second mark...whew!
Ahh I love when I see an old post of me sharing this vid. Mmmm
I still want one of these. I need to check my finances and see how long it'll take me to recover from owning one.
Teh E36 M3 said:yupididit said:euro_fam said:I'm a big fan of the maserati exhaust note. I don't think i'd ever actually buy one of them given how many (arguably better) alternatives there are but something about their high-rev exhaust hits me good.
For about $15k you can find you one of these
I just said "oh god" out loud to myself. Can one of those fit in an mg midget engine bay?
... if you want to do the one thing on the planet that could make MG reliability worse.
I kid
Sort of.
In reply to yupididit :
Is it enabling...if you convince yourself?
The real sound answer is always Merlin. Always.
I like the sound engines make. So the worst motor is an EV.
I love a V12 or V10. But all I can Afford is a Wankel; RX8 and a Bridgeported RX7.
Old thread but a fun one. The two best sounding engines I have ever owned are these:
Relatively long stroke straight 6 at 8000 rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3uEWCflgAk
Short stroke V12 (sadly I had the same engine but not in the same car!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMjwmD_Qts
Best 4 cylinder is, for me, probably an Alfa.
In reply to 350z247 :
I can afford an RX-8 even with a three rotor!
In reply to RichardSIA :
Any Fiat is cool. Fiat 500 was my first car in 1975!
Teh E36 M3 said:yupididit said:euro_fam said:I'm a big fan of the maserati exhaust note. I don't think i'd ever actually buy one of them given how many (arguably better) alternatives there are but something about their high-rev exhaust hits me good.
For about $15k you can find you one of these
I just said "oh god" out loud to myself. Can one of those fit in an mg midget engine bay?
Doesn't sound any different from any American small block V8 to me. Kind of uneven and growly, like a more refined aircooled VW.
In reply to Tim Suddard :
I'll just leave this here for Tim. Oh, the sound -
In reply to kb58 :
Much better, thank you 
The recalcitrant trans and the engine's refusal to run well at anything but pedal-crushing-firewall adds to the video experience. I half expect Ferrari did that deliberately to make the driving ambience feel more rewarding - EFI could tame many wild engines, even in the late 80s.
Modern things where they get in and it's like they're driving a Camry are just so unexciting.
Straight-6 motorcycles - the cheapest way to get that F1 sound. Honda CBX 1050
In reply to bruceman :
I have 3 X RX-8 and a MGB with streetported 13B. Little known fact: during the Rolex series they didn't have a single engine failure with the 20Bs in the tube RX-8s!
The drag races as a kid. Stock, fuelies, jets, all sounded awesome.
4 Merlins mounted in a tractor at the pulls in the Everglades while drinking beer.
IMSA Mazda rotaries, complete with flames and backfires on decel .
Kawasaki two stroke triple with open expansion chambers at full tilt.
Anything that has enough exhaust shock wave to replace normal heart beat with that of the engine rhythm. 
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