Features Best sounding engines ?

Hot little 289 in front of a 4sd hitting 4th gear giving all She's got

 

Injected hemi @ idle w/ 68 degrees and 100% on the high side with the clutch out and the wheels locked!!!

 

426 Hemi on just idle...

 

For everyday driven cars, I like the variety of lively sounds from a Chevy straight six 235 and 261 with dual cast iron headers and dual straight pipes without mufflers over the axle out under the bumper straight.
If you can't spell 'deceleration', you learn it quickly after hearing it in this way.

But WW2 and earlier aircraft engines are my favorite engines sounds - no contention.

 

9,000 rpm sbc red line fever

 

solid cam nail head in my 32 roadster also sounds kool tho

 

Champion Speed Shop SBC Top Fueler.

 

got to love the y-block

 

Amen!

 

I'm a sucker for some inliners, the Ford GAA v12's sound pretty amazing, and of course the standard 'ol bellbutton SBC is hard to beat and easy to find.

 

Totally agree with road runner!! Nothen like a Chevy 235 with Fenton headers straight back through dual inch and a half pee shooters!!!! Makes everybody stare at you!!!!! Lol

 

I must say that Kay Sissel built 12 port GMC six at WOT is a thing of beauty. even better when there's 2 in line.

 

I can't beleive not one mention of the fine sound of the 45 degree V twin, Harley Davidson! Now that is an iconic sound from the 20s to the present.

 

Packard straight eight Flathead.

Flatheads in general. Can't beat a Flathead. No matter what.


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Perhaps we've just heard it too much. Not the engine's fault, though.

Thereby hangs a tale: I wonder if the extremely ugly VW-powered Amazonas motorcycle was still being made in Brazil at the time HD were describing their engine sound as "potato potato" in their attempt to copyright it. We all know what a Beetle engine sounds like: "spud spud spud spud ..."

Seriously,

• any seriously-cammed American pushrod V8;
• any flathead Ford V8 including a stocker; but also:
• Subaru EJ
• Porsche air-cooled six
• Audi 5-cylinder
• many 2-stroke diesels e.g. Detroit, Commer TS3
• Ducati V-twin
• classic British vertical twins e.g. Triumph T120/T140

Many people like the sound of a BMW six, but it sounds like a garden hose to me.

 

You are fucking kidding, right?

 

Winner.

 

It's pretty much the same formula as the classic British twin, on a smaller scale. Even so it doesn't sound like 305cc. Still, the CB450 Black Bomber sounded that little bit nicer:

Agreed.

 

[ about 35 big block dirt modifieds charging into turn 1 at Fonda speedway ![/QU x2

 

Anything that's bringing me home,...........

 

the one that got me was a hopped up fe 390 ford, and i'm not a ford man.

 

How 'bout an air-cooled six cylinder?



More on this car is at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=799746&showall=1

 

12 cyl. racing engine at hi rpm. Or when the V10 F1 cars were running at Indy backwards. Sitting in the the front straight at Indy during practice for the 2001 F1 race. The cars were full throttle all the way from the last turn onto the straight.



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I'll admit that I haven't read the whole thread to see if someone mentioned this one, but I'm kind of partial to it. BRM V or H 16 (they were made both ways) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

 

The Eliminater car from ZZ Top! I crank the speakers up on Gimme all your lovin!

 

Factory spec, Ford HiPo 289, with solid lifters and exiting through an Arvinode exhaust system.
(rare exhaust built excusively for the HiPo)

 

Man, that's a good call! I'm of the other camp, but the old man bought a new '65 2+2 HiPo (I was 11 at the time) and that thing had a (great) sound all it's own. I remember the duals had little turn downs right under the rear splash pan. May be the exhaust you mention, it sounded damn good!

 

I don't know how to post links to youtube but if you go there lookup "Mc Claren can am and check out the 7 min ride along video with Jim Pace in an orange mechanical injected small block powered can am. the sound of the engine and the whine of the gearbox will raise the hair on your neck. true badass! CRANK UP THE VOLUME!!!

 

Bigblock Mopar at idle
Smallblock Mopar stroker at full song

 

Hamb friendly would be a solid or roller lifter cammed v8. Just the way the idle dances is like music. Non hamb friendly a hayabusa with a huge crank large very large cams a sidewinder exhaust still running efi. I've never seen so many people drop what they were doing to watch the busa my friend owned go by in the pits.