The sweetest sounding engine.

[The Vanishing Boy]

What do you think is the engine that is music to your ears? Feel free to post.

I think Hondas (I-4 & V6), BMWs I-6 & V8), and Porsches (boxers)has the sweetest sounding engines on the road today. And some American V8s.

Ferrari just screams out loud. :smirk:

I have no idea what McLaren F1 sounds like.

 

[Cobraboy]

Ferraris usually have nice sounds. But my alltime favourite is a 427 V8. Hopefully in a Cobra. Hopefully my one in about 20 years time

 

[SandStorm]

I reckon Holden Special Vehicles sound awesome.

Ferrari - can you describe it *blissfully imagines owning a Ferrari*?

 

[Cobraboy]

It sounds as though it means business. Yet knows its fast.

Thats the only way I know of.

 

[slip2rock]

V8's starting up....


The big American ones by preferance but i'd be very happy with a Brit Rover V8.

TVR S3 with a V6 would make me happy enough though.......


Haven't we had this chat before? Somebody put up a post that made me dewy eyed and nostalgic....

 

[Cobraboy]

"...Theres nothing like the way in which a big-block wakes and only a WW2 warbird's Pratt and Whitney radial can rivel that sleepy eruption of power. Hit the starter button and you can feel those fat pistons slide up and compress the mixture. It takes several revolutions - humper...humper...humper - before it suddenly fires and there's and avalanche of sound down the sidepipes..."
:thumbsup:

 

[Race Idiot]

For a while there used to be an old style TVR griffith down my road. I loved that sound, although there is still that 68 Mercury cougar XR7 a few streets away from me.

 

[sn00pie]

I heard an F355 F1 fitted with a Tubi intake, sounds quite - ahum - nice.

Edit: Sounds suh - weet!

 

[Cobraboy]

Beautiful. Dont be afraid to express yourself properly.

 

[MazKid]

13Bs. They all sound really smooth and aboundant.

The new Renesis sounds exellent, the 6 isn't too bad either.

 

[Roo]

NASCAR V8, espically at idle. First time I ever heard one was in July. So, so loud. It was brilliant

 

[mr_pushrod]

Audi Quattro 5 pot really does it for me

 

[DGB454]

Again I am going to have to go the easy way and say the 454 under my hood.

Cobraboy, excellent choice on the 427 . That's my second choice.


http://www.geocities.com/ss1972chevelle/72SS454Chevelle.html

 

[SaleenASL]

Gotta love the raspy V8 on the MR format Ford GT40

Honda NSX up and down the revs.

 

[12sec. Civic]

The nicest exhaust I think I have ever heard was in a friends 1999 Porsche Boxster. The exhaust sounds wonderful from the outside, but I think it was designed to sound SO nice in the cockpit. If you ever get a chance to be in one for a drive with the top down, you will see what I mean.


I also heard a Prelude once that must've been revving past 10,000rpm.

 

[-Fred-]

easy. Honda NSX with 6 individual throttle bodies, and a Taitec Exhaust. wish i could do a sound capture from the video...

while i can't find the soundfile for that, this Turbocharged NSX is almost as sweet...
http://www.nsxsc.com/turboexhaust.mpg

 

[BMW POWER]

i use to love the straight - 6 in my old M Roadster, that was amazing, especially low down the revs

 

[Ryan2]

Ah...Good ol' american V8. Try revving a Durango every once in a while.

 

[12sec. Civic]

Ok, I have never like RX-7's all that much, but I just watched a video of one that I found on KaZaa!!!

It was a 1988 RX-7 Non-Turbo. It had the 2Rotor 13B but they had it revving to 21,000rpm!!!!!!!!!! Yes, they got this 1988 RX-7's rotary revving to 21,000rpm. It sounded wickedly horrendous, and its dyno reading was 479hp@17,000rpm and 128ft-lbs @ 9,900rpm


I typed in "13B nitrous", but this car didnt have nitrous. I urge you all to try and find this video. It starts out with it in a garage revving. Then it does a fly-by and then at the end they dyno it.

 

[Zero]

I love the GTB/4 Daytona and pretty much any Ferrari V-12, Jaguar XJ220, the old Senna years McLaren F1cars, and the old Williams-Renault F1 cars. Sorry I like them

 

[Hooligan]

My overly-sensitive hearing has been privy to some truly awesome engines. The recent Ferrari 360 at full chat is stupefyingly unique...and good. The Dodge Charger the guy down the block has is a dreadfully nice V8 rumble. Boxsters sound too electric for me, but the guy who drives his 993 911-S to the train station garage every day is nice when I catch it once in a while. The E46 M3 has a surprisingly full-range sound, depending on RPM.

But my favorite is far less exotic. Fuji Heavy Industries EJ25. That is, the Subaru Impreza 2.5L boxer-4. No other four-cylinder engine burbles. And this one sounds like a reasonably-silenced Harley-Davidson. "Chugga-chugga-chugga." It smooths out as you get moving, but that "un-evenness" is still there. It's not as strong on the WRX, with the turbo muffling the sound quite a bit. I imagine a larger turbo with a stroked EJ20 (to 2.5L) would be tolerable.... The cause, apparently, is the uneven-length exhaust headers. I think there's a difference, between left & right cylinder pairs, of 2 feet. Equal-length headers eliminate this sound almost completely.

I like this because it's unmistakable. Not that a S50/B32 is easy to mistake for something else, but the Scooby engine brings my favorite automotive images to mind: dirt rallying, mostly sideways.

 

[f50]

i'm with cobraboy the 427 is my #1 and the second is the viper gts (i heard it fully moded :thummbsup

about ferraris:they sound good but is not my type of sound.
i love the V8 sounds more.

 

[Cobraboy]

I do have a dyno vid of a Turboed Supra with 874hp at the rear wheels it sounds pretty lovely :thumbsup:

 

[Cobraboy]

Anybody know of a way to seperate sound files from a video?? I've got some awesome sounding cars but they're mpgs and are too big to attach to post.

 

[f50]

hey cobra are you sure about that power (on the wheels) that is too much power.

i never seem a car with 847 on the wheels (never).

 

[Cobraboy]

Well thats what it says, 874 rwhp / 796ft-lbs

 

[-Fred-]

Originally posted by f50
hey cobra are you sure about that power (on the wheels) that is too much power.

i never seem a car with 847 on the wheels (never).

that's very possible... Top Fuels make 5000+ hp @ the wheels, there are some 1000+ hp Supras and GT-Rs, not to mention Corvettes and Vipers...

 

[f50]

you are so right about the top fuel.

supras with 1000 @the wheels wow.

btw can you show me one ????

 

[-Fred-]

http://www.exvitermini.com/movies/852r33.mpg

this is a Skyline, don't be fooled by the 852 number. it's in kilowatts, which means it makes about 1200hp @ the wheels...

i'm still looking for a Supra video, they're getting rarer and rarer

 

[f50]

ok this enoght for me thanks.