Best Engine (exhaust) note

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It is hard to beat the sound of a W06 being driven in anger , even if much of the sound is from the supercharger .

Der weiße Elefant, Mercedes SSK (W06) - ADAC Eifelrennen Daimler Classic - YouTube

 

[Ted]

Sorry everyone, but a V8 trumps all.

 

[cinek]

TVR Cerbera always did it for me ( when it worked).

 

[Leabrooks]

Alfa romeo Alfasud 1500 Ti Cloverleaf with twin downdraft webers and Ansa exhaust, lovely rasp on acceleration and popping on throttle lift off!

One of my mates has one of these in the early eaighties, yeh a great noise!

 

[Leabrooks]

Sorry everyone, but a V8 trumps all.

Afraid your mistaken, when it comes to exhaust notes V8's don't trump all by a long way. they sound good no denying that, but they dont always sound sharp and crisp when thrashing around country lanes.

 

[ripface]

Deja Vue

That Judd v10 is pretty cool. Based on an old f1 engine I think?
Speaking of f1, my vote is for a 1950's BRM V16.

Road cars, 15 years or so ago I had a 1982 Alfa GTV 6. The 2.5l. That had a lovely sound.

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Ah yes ... the GTV6!! Forgot about that one. Wonderful memories of glorious thrashes in the countryside with the windows wound down. Frozen to death, but loved the rasp of that V6. Pity the unbelievably long gearbox linkage spoiled the experience somewhat.

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[WantSL55]

VW golf R32.

 

[grober]

Any Giotto Bizzarrini 60 degree v12 with multi twin choke weber carbs. Posted before but worth repeating
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[mbenz1]

500 sec

 

[Marcel-Anthony]

My Harley (Custom Built 1200 Sportster), with its straight through Shotguns.

 

[E55BOF]

Moto Guzzi Le Mans with Lanfranconi pipes. V-twins are the best, but any decent N/A straight six 'on cam' sounds pretty good. Come to think of it, so does an MGB with a stock exhaust pulling hard fairly low in the rev range. Most V8s with a not too restrictive exhaust sound pretty good too.

Yes, I'm old. I'm not much of a fan of the ugly, tearing metal rasp of highly-tuned modern engines, however good they are, or of high-rev screamers. It's not the volume, it's the nature of the sound that matters.

 

[DRIXTON]

Moto Guzzi Le Mans with Lanfranconi pipes. V-twins are the best, but any decent N/A straight six 'on cam' sounds pretty good. Come to think of it, so does an MGB with a stock exhaust pulling hard fairly low in the rev range. Most V8s with a not too restrictive exhaust sound pretty good too. Yes, I'm old. I'm not much of a fan of the ugly, tearing metal rasp of highly-tuned modern engines, however good they are, or of high-rev screamers. It's not the volume, it's the nature of the sound that matters.

Just spotted this little missive.
Guzzi with Lanfranconis is glorious. My bro. has one or two of them. Hilarious bikes.
The crispness of a works V4 125 Yamaha changing down 4 gears going into Eau Rouge is stunning... Or there's my old 500 Drixton which would wake the dead... And the nicest V8 sound also happens to be a Guzzi... I could go on. Ad. infinitum.

 

[krisby]

5 cylinders for me, I love the sound of the old S60 R with a tuned exhaust, just different from all the 6 and 8s we are so used to hearing.

 

[Allybasher]

I don't think you can beat the rasp of a straight 6. It's a big part of the reason I bought mine.

 

[dredd32]

Yamaha RD250LC...Loved the sound and feeling as it hit the powerband

 

[Chalpkin]

Yamaha RD250LC...Loved the sound and feeling as it hit the powerband

I had a 350LC and you're right, it used to whistle when it hit the powerband, addictive.

 

[Allybasher]

Alfa romeo Alfasud 1500 Ti Cloverleaf with twin downdraft webers and Ansa exhaust, lovely rasp on acceleration and popping on throttle lift off!

My dad had a Sud in the '70s and I can still remember the rasp - brings shivers down my spine thinking about it. He later had a Nissan Cherry Europe with the Alfa flat 4 engine after I'd passed my test. A crap car but it made the same fantastic noise with me redlining it.

 

[deian]

my w202 C250td minus the catalytic converter, it just whistles at idle, then when you pull off its like the devil talking to you!

It just a cool sounding car, a bit like a diesel locomotive (class 43), it starts like one with the busted glow plugs too.

 

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I don't think you can beat the rasp of a straight 6. It's a big part of the reason I bought mine.

A straight six shouldn't rasp - it should be a turbine-like 'yowl' at high revs , but always silky smooth .

 

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my w202 C250td minus the catalytic converter, it just whistles at idle, then when you pull off its like the devil talking to you!

It just a cool sounding car, a bit like a diesel locomotive (class 43), it starts like one with the busted glow plugs too.

I liked the sound of my normally aspirated W124 E250D when I had it .