Which cars sound nice? (Videos please!)

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sumbrownkid
You mean the clunky old Honda Civic sound?
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I think the "brap" is usually used for straight piped or very unrestricted Subaru 4s or rotary engines
EDIT: I think it's more towards the rotary, though to me the boxer 4 sorta sounded "brap-like" :lol: I do like both of 'em
 
As said, a turbocharger is basically a muffler, absorbing all of that energy from the exhaust. Some muffler-less turbo set-ups are almost civil enough for street use.

Our local racing school uses diesels with a 3" straight pipe, and they're quieter than my car, which has a 24" resonator and a 2.5" muffler.
 
With a small displacement naturally aspirated vehicle I think it's important to have a resonator as well as a muffler. Can sound tinny otherwise. Not so important with a turbo as the turbo smoothes the sound. Big displacement vehicles don't usually suffer from it either but in saying that it will be louder without one, obviously.

You can get good quality mufflers that deepen the sound and lower the volume without really effecting flow. Your best bet is to go to a quality exhaust specialist and tell him what sound you want. You pay more for a custom one to fit your application exactly, but it's worth it. Mine was made to fit the location and be as big as possible to remove the most sound, but also be fairly hidden. It's straight through too so it has no real effect on flow. Apart from the high flow cat (which is advertised to flow around 98% compared to a straight pipe anyway) my system is straight through, all in 3". I don't have a resonator, just a muffler and mine isn't overly loud as it's a turbo. It is a lot louder than factory, mind.
 
motortrend
Not necessarily, you can get a really loud axleback that gives about the same as a quieter one
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That is true but it's usually in the case of naturally aspired, small displacement cars that don't benefit from larger piping due to a drop in exhaust velocity. So one can get away with using a more restrictive (quieter) exhaust on a stock 1.8, for example, and not sacrifice any significant "power" but the same would not be true on forced induction engines and much larger displacement engines that flow much higher volume of exhaust.
Anyways, resonators/mufflers work by restricting flow. It's just that smaller, NA engines won't show nearly as much of an advantage with a straight pipe.

MrMelancholy15
Integra works too. :lol: *chirp* craaaaaap, craaaaaap, crraaaaaaaap. I'm not a fan of this sound.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLYS6wG36nM">YouTube Link</a>
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Sounds like you're describing cars with crappy exhausts/mufflers. The sound of b-series engines with proper exhaust (or properly seized straight pipe) is music to any motorsports enthusiast's ears.

Also that Integra sounds great and you sound like you have mislead/misinfotmed tastes.
 
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^Indeed
Nothing wrong with that DC5
Bad:

Good:

EDIT: :lol: Just realized I had put e weedwhacker in the first vid.
 
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Aim for this kind of exhaust sound :



A music to my ear, I won't need a stereo in my car :) Watch till the end, you must ;)
 
^Awesome sound. You can see the waste gate dump underneath the car at 1:30 haha. I wish he would've chosen some nicer gauges to fit the nice car and mounted them in a much nicer manner though.
 
Darn, you guys have a lot of exhaust videos. I found the closest thing I could find, but, yeah, those "first videos" are atrocious.


However, the exhaust sound I like the most isn't an exhaust sound, directly. The sound of a blow-off valve opening is better, really, than just about anything else.
 
Seriously?

Listen to this, it might provide some salvation. If you still feel the same afterwards, I'm not sure there is much hope.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
Seriously?

Listen to this, it might provide some salvation. If you still feel the same afterwards, I'm not sure there is much hope.
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That's fine on a racecar, but, not even the M1 street car sounded that nice. :lol:


Street cars should always be a bit of a sleeper. That thing's sound is too nice for streets. Canada won't allow a car without 2 catalytic converters onto the roads, so far as I know.. My Subaru has 3...
 
Oh wow. How you can claim to "like" something yet be so severely ignorant about it is far beyond my gallactic understanding.

This is as honest as I'm allowed to be on here I suppose.
 
speed junkie
Oh wow. How you can claim to "like" something yet be so severely ignorant about it is far beyond my gallactic understanding.

This is as honest as I'm allowed to be on here I suppose.
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:indiff: Everyone here thinks everyone can have race cars on the street, and street cars on the track. = Too much GT5?
 
speed junkie
Is GT5 your first GT?
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I don't play GT5 much. I only rally on GT5.


My point is, not everyone can legally have an M1 Procar on the street. I'd love to, yeah, but, it's not legal in Canada. I said, at the beginning of this thread, that I want to know about muffler tech. Those questions have been answered. However, since it seems popular, I'll edit my first post, and make this into a "which cars sound nice?" thread.
 
That would be redundant as we already have a thread for that.

Best thing would just be to let the thread die a natural death.

Also, I was merely posting that in response to you saying your favorite noise is not induction nor exhaust but blow off valve, which was too absurd for me to accept.
 
MrMelancholy15
I don't play GT5 much. I only rally on GT5.

My point is, not everyone can legally have an M1 Procar on the street. I'd love to, yeah, but, it's not legal in Canada. I said, at the beginning of this thread, that I want to know about muffler tech. Those questions have been answered. However, since it seems popular, I'll edit my first post, and make this into a "which cars sound nice?" thread.
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Youre and idiot.

And since your question has been answere beyond your understanding maybe this thread will be closed now.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
That would be redundant as we already have a thread for that.

Best thing would just be to let the thread die a natural death.

Also, I was merely posting that in response to you saying your favorite noise is not induction nor exhaust but blow off valve, which was too absurd for me to accept.
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We do? Well, then, let this thread die. I don't know. I don't care, really. My questions are answered. Removing the cats and resonators is a no-no for street cars that must be driven at 2 A.M. Seems simple.


And, yes, I do love a Blow-off valve (BOV.)


Thing is, that's a valve that allows boots pressure to be released. It allows a turbo to release pressure more efficiently. Turbos run off of exhaust gases. Therefore, it's relevant. And, since it's an opinion, it's not absurd, either.


 
I would say it's tangentially relevant, at best. Even then, I was not questioning it's relevancy, so your defense of it's relevancy is quite irrelevant! And certainly opinions can be absurd...I have absurd opinions all of the time!

Also, I'm not sure if it's merely your not-quite-complete grasp of writing skills, or you don't know what a blow off valve really does, but your sentence isn't exactly clear.
 
BOVs (blow off valves in case you didn't get my cool car lingo) is used to release boost pressure. And that's an opinion!

:lol: :lol:

Also Eunos, you're giving this guy way too much effort.

Also, he probably didn't even understand your reply judging from the fact that he hasn't directly replied to anything we actually stated in our posts.

He definitely lost my second chance after page 2.
 
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Eunos_Cosmo
I would say it's tangentially related, at best. And certainly opinions can be absurd...

Also, I'm not sure if it's merely your not-quite-complete grasp of writing skills, or you don't know what a blow off valve really does, but your sentence isn't exactly clear.
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The turbo spools up, produces pressure. And, when you have to lift off of the throttle, (to shift or brake) that pressure needs to escape. But, you don't want it to go the wrong way out. So, you open a valve, allowing the pressure to escape directly out of the valve. You understand now?
 
You know, and this really is absurd, I may actually have a solution for you. If you like blow off valve better than exhaust, why don't you just install one of these? Constant blow off valve noise:

 
Again, the blow-off valves are made for performance purposes, (generally,) which means they're usually fitted onto track cars.
 
You should definitely get a blowoff valve for your exhaust then. Much cheaper than a full exhaust system and will give you that sound you like all the time!
 
speed junkie
You should definitely get a blowoff valve for your exhaust then. Much cheaper than a full exhaust system and will give you that sound you like all the time!
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I don't want a loud street car. That's what this thread was, before you started to troll. Now, stop trolling, and telling me to put ridiculous stuff on my street car, and stop telling me that I'm "absurd" for not wanting to drive a BMW M1 Procar on a Canadian residential road, at 2 A.M.


I can think of way too many reasons why I can't legally drive a BMW M1 Procar on the street, in Canada, at 2 A.M.
 
That is actually explained very poorly, especially the blow off valve part.

The intake valve isn't what closes, it's the throttle plate. Boost is such a bore...
 
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