This is a kind of pointless topic to help me make it through seemingly endless crap to the weekend.
I read somewhere that there will most likely be some regulations about the minimum amount of noise that an electric vehicle is required to make. Since we'll all be driving electric cars one day I foresee that there will be various sounds downloadable for your car like ring tones for your phone. The article suggested Star-wars sounds. Which would be cool, but not necessarily what you'd like to hear all day while driving. I'd rather listen to the sound of a 356 Carrera....or maybe....Cizeta v16T....or maybe...Alfa GTV6....or...BRM H16
Is there something better?
ryana89 路
The Audi Quattro S1, straight 5 group B rally car
Or for the poor man a humble suby rumble馃槀
jjwebb123 路
if in the future we are driving electric cars, i would prefer to hear my old veedub again.馃榾
Bizarre 路
I love the sound of those rotary motors in the sea planes
I live near Parramatta River and you hear them flying up on Sundays
So sweet
Gringo_54_oval 路
A nicely tuned flat4 with some big ass webbers
and my v6 4 motion with cold air intake thats the sound il be downloading for energizer car!!
(0 ! /0). 馃榾
Joels72Lowlight 路
A tappety Subaru 馃榾
jsheppard64 路
2 strokes, 2 cylinders Lawn mower also leaf blower sounds nice too
LUFTMEISTER 路
porsche 917 flat 12 cyd race engine. You Tube it to get your hairs tingling 馃憤
DaveCarter 路
Got a couple.
Ferrari F40:
Nissan L series motors:
Or of course the general lee audi 馃榾
shaihulud 路
Many years a go a friend had a recording of old Grand Prix and US track racing cars.
My favourite was the sound of one of the Bentley Boys in a 4 1/2 litre Blower Bentley being chased down the Mulsanne Straight during the Le Mans 24 Hour Race by Nuvolari in a Bugatti.
It sort of went a bass BBRRRRRR!!!!!!! and high pitched NNNNNAAAAAAARRRRR!!!!!!
The thought of it still puts goose bumps on me.
Craig Torrens 路
Honda S2000 at 9500rpm
reub 路
I still love the sound of an early flat 6 porsche running weber carbs.
OnE neighbour has a Ferrari 360= awesome
other Side an aston Martin vantage = beautiful
the other has a Merlin v12 powered rolls Royce phantom ii= earth shattering.
But I love the sound of my 1916
dangerous 路
Volksies sound pretty good:
This one sounds pretty good too for a wayer cooled boat anchor.馃憤馃馃お馃檯
hellbugged 路
Western Star with Cummins 620
bugzla 路
my mates Lambo diablo v10 on full noise nothin beats a true Super Car except when hes racing my other mates 400cui ht monaro running on avgas boooooomshackalucka 馃檪
DubCrazy 路
this is easy, ur all thinking way to hard..
the best engine sound is..........
One that works!!!!!!!!!!!!
steff........馃お
71-BEETLE-SEDAN 路
The best soundingto me is probably a turbo rotarty bouncing off the rev limiter with a straight through exhaust system.
Or a bigger than 2 litre beetle motor with a lumpy as f*** cam sitting at idle.
HappyDaze 路
I saw - and heard - a 16 cylinder (H16) BRM at Bathurst many years ago, and don't think I've heard anything better since.
snowman9 路
I have fond memories of 6ltr and unlimited V8 carburetted race boats --while an apprentice-- and running/tuning/racing them on the Hawkesbury and Georges rivers.
They'd "crack" when on-song while spinning constantly around 7000 rpm, indicating the magic 600 - 700 bhp goal for a N/A engines in those days (early eighties).
Aaaah...memories. 馃樀
modulus 路
A Bugatti Type 35 at full song - all 2.0 litres of it, with ball-bearing mains allowing 6000 rpm - has a sound like amplified tearing calico. Absolutely rivetting.
hth
Joel 路
Naturally Im biased on the subi note
but another i love is an old school v8 without all the pollution crap and a big f**k off carby for that induction roar with a decent twin exhaust with no balance tube.
a flat 12 Ferrari engine sounds is right up there too
JVLRacing 路
034motorsport VR6 Vw in a Audi...but all the above sweet
polak 路
i agree with Joel, except for the subie sound, its not bad, but i dont know, just doesnt do it for me..... the crisp and healthy v8 is my fave by far, especially a blown hemi or the old holden 5ltr when worked properly and stroked to 355.... and as for the the flat 12 ferrari engine, its brilliant but the 6.0ltr V12 aston martin engine definitely gives the ferrari a run for its money and if fuel injection isnt your style, the v12 from the old jag e-type had a really nice and raspy note to it.... cheers adam
Joel wrote:Naturally Im biased on the subi note
but another i love is an old school v8 without all the pollution crap and a big f**k off carby for that induction roar with a decent twin exhaust with no balance tube.
a flat 12 Ferrari engine sounds is right up there too
bajachris88 路
Craig Torrens wrote:This sounds nice as well.
Oh man! a CGT is my favourite car! pity the price tag is a little high....馃憤
Grey 57 路
Biased I know but an early 911 flat 6 sounds pretty sweet I reckon.
Non car would be a Rolls Royce Merlin Mustang/Spitfire engine. One at the air port near where I live an it sounds sweet when diving down fast and then pulling up.
trickysimon 路
Joel was on the right track with the 8 cylinders. But unfortunately its in the wrong configuration.
As this doesn't say what sort of engine, how about this.
Until recently, when he gifted the plane to the Aircraft Museum at Nowra ,Laurie Ogle owned and restored a 1937 Lockheed Electra. It has 2 Pratt & Whitney 9 cylinder radial engines, and seats 10. I was fortunate enough to be on a flight to Bendigo (for the swap-meet) with Laurie and some other friends in 1992. What a flight!
When it was time to get back to the Bendigo airstrip, Laurie 'Buzzed' the showground (swap-meet) in the Electra to let us know. I've never seen so many people look up at one time and yell #%@* ! The plane was so low, you see the rivets in the aluminium panels.
That was spine-tingling stuff, and I will never forget that sound.
Cheers, Greg
Camo 路
How is this for an engine sound. Takes about 28 seconds into it before you hear what I am talking about. Smart cars !!
i dunno what your raving about, they just do not sound like a grunty engine.
oh yeah, whilst i do love the sound of a turbo spooling, geez i miss my supercharger, just wish i could make it fit the EJ
for those that havent heard a toyota GZE before check this
VolksVair 路
Okay yas got me fired up, I work in the marine industry and trust me, a pair of 502 bigblock chevs with open above water exhausts at full noise is bloody damn fully SICK!! then when ya ears have had enough, you flick the a pair of switches and the electric solenoids attached to the exhaust system rediverts the exhaust back under water and all is quiet, errr well allmost, reckon its better than sex馃槑 cheers Frank
VolksVair 路
Better clarify something, solenoids activate internal exhaust butterflys to re divert gasses & noise below water line, but even in this mode, once you are wide open throttle not much of the boat is in the water and its just heaven!! this system is really designed for when you are slowly motoring inside a marina and you dont freak out the normal people, or is that abnormal people
Menangler 路
This used to make some cool noises, 1776 Turbo.
bus914 路
Cool stuff, keep em coming.......
Beetle with IDA's
Stradale 33 (2L injected V8) Clutch start
Merlin v12 on a boat
911 Turbo rally car
vwvic 路
I recon the beetle in the Quaife diff test movie is still one of the best sounding engines ever.
I also like the noise the General Electric F414-GE-400 makes.These are the engines out of the new super-hornet ,totaly wicked.
Menangler, that sounds sick! What ever happened to that car?
Menangler 路
trickysimon wrote:Menangler, that sounds sick! What ever happened to that car?
Car was sold in 1998, I haven't seen it since, although it was listed on Ebay a couple of years ago looking very sad 馃ゲ.
Some drag noises
mactaylor 路
ducati at full noise in a pack of jap bikes. sounds that get me very excited.
DylanTheDubber 路
Come on guys what about a WRX STI turbo with canonn on the back. = ] Best Sound!!!
shaihulud 路
When I was a boy, back in the 1950s, Rolls Royce Merlin engines were very cheap and they were fitted to speed boats which were run on the Swan River.
I could follow the path of one of them from my home which was a couple of streets back from the river.
The noise was awesome and the rooster tail out the rear of the boat was astonishing.
Later I was to be reminded of the sound of a Merlin engine when there was a Mustang P51 in Perth.
He used to show off by flying up and down, just off the beaches in summer. Lucky blighter.
What a sound. The big paddle propeller stirring up the the exhaust made for an orgasmic experience.
JVLRacing 路
shaihulud wrote:When I was a boy, back in the 1950s, Rolls Royce Merlin engines were very cheap and they were fitted to speed boats which were run on the Swan River.
I could follow the path of one of them from my home which was a couple of streets back from the river.
The noise was awesome and the rooster tail out the rear of the boat was astonishing.
Later I was to be reminded of the sound of a Merlin engine when there was a Mustang P51 in Perth.
He used to show off by flying up and down, just off the beaches in summer. Lucky blighter.
What a sound. The big paddle propeller stirring up the the exhaust made for an orgasmic experience.
ohw yes....sweet plane no doubt....iam ready to pay 1k for a 20min flight,they sometime have mustang flights comin to coffs..
bus914 路
Alfa 8c
Will Vintage 路
911 Turbo rally car
That is driving taking the car to it limits good post bus914
Robo 路
Ducati 900 SS running Conti pipes! and my 36hp beetle engine.
Rob...
Turbo54 路
Not as exotic as some but this is one of my favs. Love the blower whine.