Author Topic: Engine sound (Read 706 times)

Monk · « **on:** August 22, 2005, 10:46:32 AM »

I have been looking at some old Porsche's (thinking about getting one, older of course). What engine sound really sticks out for you? Something that you here coming and you know exactly what it is. For me, it has to be the 6 cylinder boxer from Porsche.

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2005, 10:51:26 AM »

There's the ubiquitous Harley Davidson twin (the radial-8 engine that's missing 6 cylinders) which sounds, as everyone knows, like 'potato-potato-potato-potato'.

I really like the BMW K bikes with the triples (like the K75). They sounded like sewing machines.

Monk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2005, 10:55:52 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
'potato-potato-potato-potato'.

Yup, that's another that stinks out for me. The Ducati is also one.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2005, 10:58:53 AM »

There's this ford focus with all the body trim and auto zone accessories one can buy. He's got a cold air intake and performance exaust complete with crome trashcan muffler.

It sounds like an old van with bad wiring when you hear the engine electrical whine through the 2 4" inch speakers while the radio is on the AM band.

Chairboy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2005, 11:10:01 AM »

Don't worry, GS, you can put a ground loop isolator in your Focus that'll make the nasty whine stop coming out of your speakers.

ROC · « **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2005, 11:21:53 AM »

640 HP Ford 429 Cobra Jet in my Ranchero back in high school as she decellerates from 110mph and blows the fiberglass packing out of the Cherry Bombs.

Seeker · « **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:16:27 PM »

Yamaha RD350LC; ring a ding ding!

Suzuki 750 GT; very few two stoke tripples around; none with mixer pipes like the Kettle.

Laverda Jota (180 degree crank version) on Marshall exhausts; sounds like a Spitfire (I kid you not)

Laverda Jota 120 degree crank: sounds like a fifteis Ferrari (it's all to do with multiples of threes :-) )

Ford Cosworth BDA Escort with twin 40 Webers; it's not the exhaust; it's the induction.

Austin morris 100 series 6 cylinder (the original motor in Laz's Healy); nothing sounds nicer on the over-run.

And any good Yank V8.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #7 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:28:50 PM »

Best engine sound ever

This one's good too

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:45:26 PM »

340/383/440 engine in a Charger/Road Runner with those 2 1/2" exhausts, Hooker headers, and glass packs. Sweetest sounding engines I have ever heard.
Nothing ever had quite the sound of those 60's Dodge/Plymouth engines.

Mustaine · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2005, 04:33:20 PM »

the lamborghini countach always was a favorite,

but the shelby cobra has got to be the sweetest sound ever.

zorstorer · « **Reply #10 on:** August 22, 2005, 04:39:09 PM »

The Diablo at idle, just to hear the valves tink-tink-tink

Nilsen · « **Reply #11 on:** August 22, 2005, 05:07:37 PM »

Am I the only one that likes the sound of... no engine at all?

Nice to just sit back and enjoy the sound of Sjostakovitsj or Strauss while sitting comfy in my Jaguar doing 100mph. Tie tossed in the back seat and my rolex telling me the working day and week is over.

ahh... sweeet.

i wish

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** August 22, 2005, 05:24:30 PM »

http://hallert.net/misc/a250turb.wav

That's also the sound I want my spaceship to make when I start it up.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** August 22, 2005, 05:36:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Don't worry, GS, you can put a ground loop isolator in your Focus that'll make the nasty whine stop coming out of your speakers.

hows your head. My post flew right over it. I don't own a focus I was making fun of somone that I know who does. He want's it so bad to be a ricer and it sounds like the radios in our utility vans that we drive.

Chairboy · « **Reply #14 on:** August 22, 2005, 05:48:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
hows your head. My post flew right over it. I don't own a focus I was making fun of somone that I know who does. He want's it so bad to be a ricer and it sounds like the radios in our utility vans that we drive.

My good friend, I'm afraid that it was YOUR head that suffered from an unwelcome and undetected overflight. Please note the presence of the crap-eating-grin smiley face and review your book of 'traditional comic foils'.