Favourite Exhaust Note

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What exhaust note steriotypicaly sounds the best (by manufacturer)

The Mitsi "burble"
8
11%
The Suby boxer engine "thud thud"
23
31%
The Honda VTEC "boobaa"
2
3%
The Toyota "???"
16
21%
The Mazda Rotary "motormower"
8
11%
The Holden/Ford V8 "thump"
7
9%
Other - what?
11
15%
 
Total votes : 75

Postby Pies » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:48 pm

aston martin V8s ;)
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Postby event2 » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:11 pm

i was at dunedin street race and loved the sound of old school rs ecorts flying past was great. o and who herd that quad rotor rx7 bat at 4 and rotors drags in chch this year that was am awsum sound going down the drag track. o yea and a ferrari v8 pulling away from infront of u at lights the hi pich werr is truly orgasmic!
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Postby MrBob » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:31 pm

any v twin ducati, or an 8
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Postby blackie » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:34 pm

i went with the subbys boxer. distinctive, sounds beautiful.
it was a hard choice though.
love the sound of an 8 rumbling, and any Nissan RB series motor on boost sounds mint.

a guy from work also has a 3sgte which sounds great from outside, but the majority of 4ages i have heard with exhausts sound crap.

vtec induction noise is awesome. also the brap-brap-brap of a rotor can sound really nice.
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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:46 pm

for me a 1953 BRM V16 F1 car

http://members.madasafish.com/~d_hodgkinson/brm-V16.htm

buy nick masons/mark hales book 'into the red'
comes with a cd of the engine notes of all the cars in the book, the BRM is THE BEST sounding thing i have ever heard!! it really sends shivers down my spine.

the next best would be victor brays drag car,

http://www.victorbray.com/

that was prety cool! (and loud!)

then comes ferrari V12, TVR mmmm

im afriad most jappas are waaaay down my list... cept for a certain nissan patrol around here... got a nissan V8 in it and it sounds sweet
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Postby 92GTApex » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:04 pm

comes with a cd of the engine notes of all the cars in the book, the BRM is THE BEST


I dont suppose you could rip it off the cd and send it to me?
Im in the process of trying to get it transferred from an old record that dads got onto a cd, But it would be awesome if you could send it to me :D
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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:24 pm

ill see what i can do.. i dont have the technology myself for that, but i no ppl who do
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Postby 92GTApex » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:36 pm

Sweet...

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Postby Snoozin » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:37 pm

Well.... none of the choices do much for me except the rotary one, nothing at all sounds like a well-tuned 13B PP brapping like mad... my mate had one in his 323 and it was the most crazy-grin inducing engine note ever!

But my all time favourite is...

BDA Ford Escort, resonating through a forest/countryside etc as it comes towards you on a special stage on a rally pulling 9000rpm... oh $&#$% yes.

Also the Alfa Montreal I sat o the back of during a dyno run ranks up there.... they use a 2.6l quad cam V8... and this is the early 70s!! Sound of ripping silk... yes indeedy. 7000rpm V8s with VERY free flowing exhausts is a sound to behold.

As far as bikes go, for me the Britten V1000 always had it over the Ducati's, just so deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep you could feel it from the stands at Manfeild when it was blitzing down the back straight!

Oh yeah and the 1969 onwards Kawasaki Mach III 500 two-stroke triple, that thing sounds just so brilliant.
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Postby 20vtoylevin » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:56 pm

Mmm, Boost wrote:Pretty much any Japanese turbo inline 4 sounds tractorish (think 3SGTE, 4G63, SR20DET)

I dont care what anyone else thinks, but the quick brap of a PP motor really does it for me...when I first heard Stu Lawton's 323 fire up (I was approximately 5km's from the lock ups 8O ) it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

I do quite like the sound of a stupidly cammed V8 pretending to idle, and also EJ20's sound mean, especially with headers...yummy!



:wink: exactly!!!!! that 323 was primo but i avnt seen it for ages!!!!
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Postby kingcorolla » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:05 am

herd this baby fire up in the weekend.. its my uncles road king.
brand new 1600cc twin, 10.5:1


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damn harleys sound beautiful. VERY unique. I love it :D :D
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Postby Mr Revhead » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:33 am

BDA Ford Escort, resonating through a forest/countryside etc as it comes towards you on a special stage on a rally pulling 9000rpm... oh f**k yes.

Also the Alfa Montreal I sat o the back of during a dyno run ranks up there.... they use a 2.6l quad cam V8... and this is the early 70s!! Sound of ripping silk


oh yes yes yes BDA are sex to my ears! and i can imagine a montreal mmmm the euros know how to make an 8 sound sweet!
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Postby Snoozin » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:19 pm

kingcorolla wrote:herd this baby fire up in the weekend.. its my uncles road king.
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damn harleys sound beautiful. VERY unique. I love it :D :D


Not intending to offend here but...

Each to their own I suppose but the sound of a two-wheeled road-legal air compressor (aka Harley Davidson) almost makes me chunder!
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Postby Emperor » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:32 pm

My dad's brand new Harley, Springer doesn't sound too bad. :D
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Postby RunningRich » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:22 pm

The Japanese don't know how to do a great exhaust. Even an Italian saloon car exhaust will blow them all out of the water.

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Postby Mr Revhead » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:23 pm

The Japanese don't know how to do a great exhaust. Even an Italian saloon car exhaust will blow them all out of the water


yes soooo true
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Postby -Dan-Knee- » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:20 pm

I like the sound of that fully worked jappa r34 godzilla on HO Overboost. The one wen they are just about to leave that track day and it comes out last phuckn hell that fings insane.
Also love oldskool mazdas, rollas toyotas eg: rx2,3,4,7, ke20,30 etc wiv a rotang in it wiv a big dumpie hangin out the back (not sure if its the sound of the engine really more the look of a nice oldskool car done up)
But v8's are still right up there nice growly sounding one!!!!
My uncle dons pontiac trans am drag car wiv a 455 big block i fink it is sounds mad screamin down the quarter.

but my fave by quite a long shot is my old mans 95 harley davidson softail custom sounds mad wen he wakes ya up early sat morning wiv the mad grumble of the harley. Sounds awesum (also had sum exhaust work to it)

Anyways that will do....
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Postby CHOMPA » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:58 pm

My Faviroute exaust note is the mitsi tractor sound, But i have to stay loyal to honda, so the runner up would be the honda raspy exaust note.
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Postby mr bmw » Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:47 pm

MAZDA QUAD ROTOR at full tilt!.......oh crist i just shot a wad!
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Postby Caveman » Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:28 pm

1. scoobys
2. v'8s
3. bigport t-vis or "TVIS-tec" :D :D :D
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