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?

The Audi Quattro S1, straight 5 group B rally car
Or for the poor man a humble suby rumble

if in the future we are driving electric cars, i would prefer to hear my old veedub again.

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

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).

A tappety Subaru

2 strokes, 2 cylinders Lawn mower also leaf blower sounds nice too

porsche 917 flat 12 cyd race engine. You Tube it to get your hairs tingling

Got a couple.
Ferrari F40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXohkJ7BQo&playnext_from=TL&videos=f1...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFygb5RkwPo&playnext_from=TL&videos=Ne...

Nissan L series motors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3550wXZHqkw&playnext_from=TL&videos=Kz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGDLttSK95w&feature=related 

Or of course the general lee audi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkXJST4bExs 

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.

Honda S2000 at 9500rpm

I still love the sound of an early flat 6 porsche running weber carbs.

Here is a mates...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NL6yQjkCWI

This sounds nice as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nd_5cVIMv0&feature=related 

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

Volksies sound pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgpusDRYNhY 

This one sounds pretty good too for a wayer cooled boat anchor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhcCCi3UVpU&feature=related 

Western Star with Cummins 620

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

this is easy, ur all thinking way to hard..


the best engine sound is..........


One that works!!!!!!!!!!!!


steff........

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.

I saw - and heard - a 16 cylinder (H16) BRM at Bathurst many years ago, and don't think I've heard anything better since.

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.

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

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

034motorsport VR6 Vw in a Audi...but all the above sweet

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

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.

Joel was on the right track with the 8 cylinders. But unfortunately its in the wrong configuration.

Meet the VW Passat W8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omJDI0AJHw&feature=related

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

How is this for an engine sound. Takes about 28 seconds into it before you hear what I am talking about. Smart cars !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIOZ7tQ98-U&feature=related

Kev