Useless Poll #2: Second favourite exhaust note

[Bipolar]

I have done this pre-boostedfalcon.net, but kents had trouble deciphering the choices, so I thought I'd make it easier. I got inspiration from the Top Gear episode when James had the theme music played in exhaust notes and I finally got to hear an I8. I've picked what I think would be the more obvious choices out of the 11ty billion engines in existance.

Post about how much you hate or love any of the below notes:

Single
I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I8, I9, I10, I12, I14
V2, V4, V5, V6, V8, V10, V12, V16, V20, V24
F2, F4, F6, F8, F10, F12, F16
W8, W12, W16, W18
1 rotor, 2 rotor, 3 rotor

I'm only including piston and rotary engines. I haven't included any of the configurations not used in modern road vehicles (that I know about) like the radial, X, U, H, square or opposed.

[Commando]

dak dak does it for me (VW)

[spope]

Rotary all the way.
They sound awesome, wether it be 12A, 13B, 20B, and the new Renesis rotary in the RX-8. All of them sound great.
And there is something special about an engine that spins to 8000 rpm and develops power the whole way up!


PS My dream car is a JC Mazda Cosmo. Twin Turbo 20B FTW!

[Steady]

Brap brap FTW.
No boxers?
Not that would I have picked them
But twin turbo boxer 6 sounds decent

[Malakai]

Oh man I can't go past a the awesome sound of a turn of the century steam engine I reckon!

Second choice: Turbo I6 with screamer pipe, at full boost of course.

[Bipolar]

No boxers?

F4 and F6 = Flat 4 and Flat 6

[BI6TIM]

I am so over the sound of a V8, it's all you hear on the Powercruise DVD, although now they're starting to recognise the turbo 6's as Gup get's owned by a R32 GTR on the DVD fron this year.
Sorry if I offend any V8 lovers here but V8's just sound dated and simple(without technological advance), to me.

There is nothing like a turbo 6 with an external gate venting to atmosphere, at full noise!

[Gozza]

Rotary all the way.
They sound awesome, wether it be 12A, 13B, 20B, and the new Renesis rotary in the RX-8. All of them sound great.
And there is something special about an engine that spins to 8000 rpm and develops power the whole way up!


PS My dream car is a JC Mazda Cosmo. Twin Turbo 20B FTW!

a stock 13b will rev past 9000 no worries:)

im a mild rotary fan - love ported ones that kick you in the face standing a meter behind the exhaust lol

how bout one with a power band from 6g to 14g

[EDFalcon]

gotta love an old rx brap brapping away at the lights...

[nommic]

BRM V16 for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYaA4b2 ... re=related

I have a CD one of my uncles burnt me a copy of called "Sounds of Goodwood". Basically a discussion about all these classic cars and recordings of them from inside the cabin and trackside as they go flying past. The BRM just sounds so brutal.

[Damo]

Rotary.

[donno]

V10 in the Carerra GT. Almost made me cry the first time I heard it.

[Bipolar]

LOL. Now that's something I wanna hear in person.

[slo_sprint]

The Essex V6, i still get chills remembering the sound my old Capri used to make at 8000rpm through a 2 1/4 twin system with a 464cfm 4 barrel holley and alot of head work. It just has an unreal note, words just cannot describe it.

[Simmo]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLjXa2RPBoc

that is THE BEST SOUND EVER. 3L N/A carbed GTR skyline from 1969. watch the video and listen, it gives me goosebumps. skip to about 1:20 and crank the volume.

[Bipolar]

Wow. That don't sound like no regular I6.

[Bipolar]

***EDITED*** - change your vote if you hear something you like more.

[krisisdog]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLjXa2RPBoc

that is THE BEST SOUND EVER. 3L N/A carbed GTR skyline from 1969. watch the video and listen, it gives me goosebumps. skip to about 1:20 and crank the volume.

i used to use that car playin gt2 all the time. loved it.

[EL XR8]

Rotor's...
You either love 'em or hate 'em.

[[Sterling]]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NeVft91 ... re=related
nothing beats this exhaust note!

[Commando]

Rotor's...
You either love 'em or hate 'em.

Well, I swing both ways (no Bipolar... not *that* way), I love the sound of a tough old RX2/3/4(?) on-song, and I like the later RX7s & the RX8, but early 80s RX7s with a cannon sound like a swarm of blowies in a tin bucket.

[Bipolar]

Damn it.

[Commando]

what are you trying to say here?

[Bipolar]

[EL XR8]

I agree with you there Commando. A properly done 12A, 13B sounds nucking futs.
Its kinda the same with any motor though. Anyone can **** up any exhaust note big time. Cannons, being 2" to big the whole way through, etc.