Interested to see what you guys think. This can include modified variants of course, and post videos if you like.
My favourite sounding engine has to be the chevy big block in normally aspirated form but with plenty of tuning. It sounds fantastic from idle to high rpms.
Ok so the v16 brm racer tops that but its a bit too left field.
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:45 pm
by hennared323i
2.2 pinto as built by millington running through an ashey competitions exhaust on a Darrien I saw hurtling around Knockhill a few years back at heroic speeds.
Epic sound especially on overrun.
This gives a bit of flavour (albeit not in a Darrien):
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:00 pm
by iceox
best engine ive heared was a brand new astin martin vanquish, some polish drug dealer in ipswich useto rag to the shit out of it everywhere. when he booted it, fuck me it sounded like summin outa war of the worlds lol
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:19 pm
by rh306
.. a lot of modern super cars sound rubbish, water cooled 911s, recent Ferrari's etc. They all have that flat F1 bark to them. A nice fruity AMG Merc for me please
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Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:44 pm
by HairyScreech
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:05 pm
by Falkster
Ive got tow but Ive forgotten how to post them properly
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:06 pm
by rh306
Falkster wrote:Ive got tow but Ive forgotten how to post them properly
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Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:09 pm
by Falkster
Thanks mate
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:36 pm
by penton08
E46 m3 CSL, boring I know but they sound fantastic!!
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:26 am
by harry_p
a proper works spec 6r4 at full chat is full on spine tingling. sadly ive never found an online vid that does the sound any justice at all.
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:09 pm
by 320Touring
A 440 V8 out a Charger, stright piped
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:00 pm
by winx
The sound of 19 of these reverberrating off the hills round Lake Garde a few weeks ago was to die for
I love my job:
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:22 pm
by pacerpete
winx wrote:The sound of 19 of these reverberrating off the hills round Lake Garde a few weeks ago was to die for
I love my job:
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RichW told me that was dubbed and in reality they sound sh1t
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:34 pm
by winx
I'll see if I can get some videos of us in Italy for Thursday night big man
Not sure young Rich ever heard and F1 as he was bolting bits to SLRs
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:10 pm
by toby
winx wrote:The sound of 19 of these reverberrating off the hills round Lake Garde a few weeks ago was to die for
I love my job:
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I love your job too (and I don't even have to do the work)
Those engines sound great, visceral but not nasty and balanced too.
Re: Whats the best sounding engine ever?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:12 pm
by toby
rh306 wrote:.. a lot of modern super cars sound rubbish, water cooled 911s, recent Ferrari's etc. They all have that flat F1 bark to them. A nice fruity AMG Merc for me please
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Love that - like a lion.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:20 pm
by pacerpete
winx wrote:I'll see if I can get some videos of us in Italy for Thursday night big man
Not sure young Rich ever heard and F1 as he was bolting bits to SLRs
Saucer of milk for young Henry !
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:54 pm
by E30BeemerLad
Big block chevy for that low revs/ tickover humm/bass.
Small block for when revving hard.
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Open headers FTW though
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The Audi 5 pot takes some beating
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:15 am
by Blitz
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:16 am
by Simon
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:48 am
by billgatese30
Nothing better than Nitromethane, unfortunately video camera's normally can't cope with the volume up close enough to do it justice, its more of a noise you experience rather than just hear
i love the interiors of tvrs, you know its bonkers without having to even start it.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:50 am
by snakebrain
Classic Ferrari V12.
If you haven't seen this video before, it was made by a playboy-filmmaker called Claude Lelouch. The title translates as 'It was a rendez-vous' or 'It was a date'. The camera car was allegedly a Merc 450SEL 6.9 but the soundtrack is clearly a manual car and as Lelouch owned a 275GTB at the time, it's thought he either did the same run in the Ferrari and overdubbed the sound or the camera was just mounted on the Ferrari. He never admitted to it at the time though as the law were on his back.
It's a single shot from a camera mounted low on the front of the car, about 8 mins in duration. It's just him ripping it through the centre of Paris at about 5am one morning and it's absolutely awesome!
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:46 pm
by Jesus325iTouring
Big block v8 is good but for me the but for me the best sound is produced by a knackered rover v8, just sounds sublime!
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:01 am
by Andyboy
This takes some beating:
Check out the cornering at 1.15!
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:30 pm
by Falkster
Andyboy wrote:This takes some beating:
Check out the cornering at 1.15!
Thats got to be one of the best car vids Ive ever seen. Big lazy v12 cat looked awesome and sounded unbelievable!! Not sure about flat b0ll0ck nacker on two wheels though!
A friend of my dad had a TWR XJS in about 1984, we just thought it was a jag with a bodykit at the time.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:32 pm
by alan1272
a screaming BDA in a welsh forest, makes the hours of standing out in the pissing rain just for a 1970's ford escort to come past all worth it
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:48 pm
by mrLEE30
My 225 Johnson outboard sounds fantastic out of the water. 6 cylinder 3.0litre two stroke, exhuast straight to the prop...porn!
But nothing beat the bahrain F1 GP of 2010, i was in a tent with williams FW18 and FW08, Lotus 72 and 79, Ford DFV powered beasts like a Matra MS80, ferarri 1512, 375 and 125, and the striaght 10 of the Merc W196. We were offered ear plugs but no way i was missing that noise.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:18 am
by pony
Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradele or a BMW S54B32 in a M3 CS ?
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:21 am
by pony
Nothing beats the 3.0 Litre V10 of the Formula One Cars a few years ago though ....
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:59 pm
by mrLEE30
pony wrote:Nothing beats the 3.0 Litre V10 of the Formula One Cars a few years ago though ....
except perhaps..
now imagine all running at once!!
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:51 pm
by kibble
hmmm tought choice....but i'd go for a simple 1600 x-flow ford engine running some nice throaty twin 48 webbers on ashley exhaust system...
orrr a noise i am fortunate to listen to rather often..
big block chevy v8 race engines, my uncle is a well known big block v8 engine builder in the drag racing scene, and im lucky enough to crew in the pits for him and my aunt who races her Chevy S-10 pickup in the supermodified class....this weekend at the mopar nationals including testing we managed to crack the personal bests with a 7.36sec 1/4mile @ 185mph....not bad for a woman driver! this is the video i got on the startline...music to my ears!
