*What's your favourite HOT ROD (other?) engine sound?*

<font color="brown"> After hearing what seemed a like hundred Harleys tearing down the motorway this weekend it made me ponder on what engine sounds really get your crank rotatin'?
As I was unloading tools (moving shop) and listening to the many V8's and cycles go by it got me to thinking what were the personal preferences here...?
A HEMI with limefires is hard to beat but then again a good ol' multi carbed straight 6 in full song ain't too bad either! (yes alfster, that was for you!.... )
Then again, the ol' warbirds with the Pratt &amp; Whitney sound mighty fine too!
Any links to automotive soundtracks would be gladly received.
A fave resides in here @ Bonneville...Deadend Cruisers
Cheers,
Cruisin'
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A big radial engine at full throttle does it for me.

I'm an A&amp;P mechanic, but all I ever got to work on is turboprops.

 

I'm not really into airplanes but I love the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12. Sounds a bit nastier than an Allison. Mechanical Music!

 

A Pro-Stock engine.

 

An un-corked Ford Y block. Nuthin' sounds sweeter than that to my ears.

 

my kick start maytag engine ,with a 4 foot flex pipe for an exhaust ,seems so simple yet all that goes on in order to make that rhythm, what a sound!!!

 

I'm partial to the sound (and smell) of a blown &amp; injected iron Hemi on 90% Nitro.

Then again, Peter Eagan, writer for Road &amp; Track , once described a hot-rodded Flathead as sounding like "a Grizzly Bear gargling with honey".

I've always thought that pretty much summed it up.

 

The sound of turbocharged rotories going up the hill after the hard lefthander at the end of the backstraight at Road America. The idle of a miller 120 straight eight. The wail of a blown Allison powered pull tractor. The buzz of a bunch of sports cars at Blackhawk Farms. The sound of a bunch of XR750s ridden in anger.

 

nothing sounds like a Hemi those big ports start the sound and it just keeps building,
what I miss the most is the crisp cackle of a high compression motor(don't start the engine ****! the english language has changed that argument years ago)11 1/2 to 13 1/2 compression motors ruled the streets when we had the good ol white pump(104 octane for you youngsters) at the local chevron station
A blower whine at full song rates pretty high also

 

I love the sound of a flatty when you run it up to 2500 RPM in second and let it back off .
Nothing else has that burbble.

 

Hmmm...a FEW faves...

A late 40s Pontiac straight eight flathead with a straight pipe...

The ambulance in the first Cannonball Run movie...listen to that ****er idle when Burt is talking to the cop in one scene...DAMN!!

Cruella DeVille's car...

A Kz1000/900 at full song...

Buddy Ingersol's old turbo V6 Pro Stocker...back before they decided not to allow it in!

A Te***seh mini-bike motor with an open pipe...

A hot 289 Ford through open tri-y headers...

Most big rig diesels!

 

nothing beats being there, with all senses filled but

I have a couple of these that I like to have playing in the background,

this one was put together in '59 and has all the old American iron

Paul

 

Hemi.....

Or a Merlin in a Spitfire on a full throttle climb

Dave

 

Oh, yeah, An Offy, any N/A Offy at full throttle. The thought makes my pulse race. The sound of my old 427 Galaxy idleing through the Burger King parking lot. Wish she was still mine

 

Novi !

 

Wide open Flathead. But my former employer had a 625 hp Corvette Z06 with Corsa mufflers, no cats, full length headers and more mechanical mahem under those engine covers than anything I've ever heard on the street; kinda like a V12 Ferrari with open pipes.

 

Yep! A flat motor........ wait......maybe an open headered "Y" block or maybe a Blown Hemi fuelie on search
(pulsating idle) but my all time favortie goes back to the early 50's when we ran a Hudson straight 8 in a T roadster on the dirt. That Hudson had such a coooooooool sound. Went to Bonneville in '92 and a fella from Astoria, OR had his Hudson sedan there and when he popped it off my heart just leaped!

 

http://www.autospeak.com/library.htm
this place has anything!!

 

P-51... IMO the Merlin has the coolest and most recognizeable sound of any combustion engine.

Here is a short clip in case any of you have not heard one... http://www.stallion51.com/sightsound/sightsound-flyby.cfm?CFID=3548364&amp;CFTOKEN=551873d-0006d26a-bcfd-10d4-9945-328042dfd82d

 

Uncorked Flatty

Turboed 13b rotary at 13 grand

and the top for me...

Denco Kawasaki H2 triple two stoke and full hooooowwwwwwl!!

 

I was thinkin a balanced 12 to one, dual quad 301 sbc at about 9200 RPM

 

http://nationalcapitolsquadron.com/fun.html

 

remember this!?
http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13203489/ItsAlive3.MPG

Also who could forget the vid of Jimmy White's Hemi couupe...

 

A blown 327 at 7500...........

 

A Harley choppin' at idle or hollerin' down the highway is hard to beat... unless you consider old school fuelies pre-staging at the 'strip... or some motor totally built motor that resonates DEEP from it, as you sit by it in traffic.
I had a '72 Skylark (which is dearly missed) that had some sweet sounding gl***packs on it; there was an overp*** near Mom's I used to go under, just LOVED revvin' it up right before I came out, the way it echoed out. That, and the short tunnel, south-bound Pasadena 210 freeway, right before you reach Old Town. Just loved telling others in that tunnel what I had. It wasn't the most awesome motor ever, but it was the best I'd ever driven at that point.
Creative post, Cruisin'!

 

I like the uncorked flatties, and Y-blocks

 

One of the Rob North Daytona Triumph Triples pulling fourth gear on the mile-and-a-quarter straight at BIR.
Offy
P-51 with a Merlin
At an airshow at Holman field in St Paul there was a Canadian bomber, Lancaster? with four Merlins.
Also really dig the sound of a radial starting up on its Coffman starter...like a dinosaur awakening.
If this thrills us, imagine how Rudolf Diesel felt when he pulled the flywheel around and his first little engine went "cough cough"
All these sounds are good history

 

I like the little ST8s
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Jdee

 

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good ol' multi carbed straight 6 in full song ain't too bad either! (yes alfster, that was for you!.... )


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For a video with sound go to.

http://danielstrohl.com/permanent.asp?id=73

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Some of the more wonderful motor sounds I know of were those I made with motors I built. In the early '80s I refurbed an original '68 Chevy L79 El Camino, a very rare piece that just fell into my lap at a righeous price at one of those rare times when I had not only the price of the vehicle but also sufficient bucks to see it properly completed. When the Elky was finished and running sweet, I'd reward myself with a "midnight run" about once a week.

At the time, I was a single dad with primary custody of my two daughters, with heavy work responsibilities running training and sales programs for several clients that included Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. The company I worked for would have preferred I drive something to make the client comfortable -- but which client? Part of my compensation package was a car allowance -- a couple of hundred bucks a month, a decent amount at the time. Rather than apply it to a lease car from one of he clients (which would have pissed off he other clients whose cars I didn't choose)I opted to apply my allowance to my own car, the newly acquired 1968 L79 El Camino.

When the Elky was all refurbed and sorted, my visits were looked forward to by my clients, particularly when lunch was part of the meeting and a spirited throttle romp on the streets of Gardena in the howling Chevy was ***ured.

My reward runs were made on Saturday nights, or more correctly, Sunday mornings, just after midnight. My daughters would either be home with slumber party girlfriends or at their friends' homes in a similar trade-off scheme.

A little after midnight, I'd fire up the El Camino, back it out of the driveway, and head North to Magnolia Boulevard and then East a few blocks, making my way to Chandler Boulevard, a divided two-way cross-Valley thoroughfare split down the middle by an old, derelict railroad rightaway that ran for several long blocks at a stretch without cross-street intersections. Add to that high curbs that would go a long way to contain an errant car, and you had a rather safe urban test track.

I'd turn onto Chandler at Hollywood Way, heading East, roll along perhaps 50 yards, looking down the road to see that it was really clear, then roll to a stop. I'd clean the L79 a couple of times with throttle, pull the M21 into first gear, then ease off the brake just enough to load the drivetrain as I fed in just a taste of clutch.

With all the hardware comfortably arranged, I'd bring up the revs while simultaneously feeding in some clutch. The fat radials would begin to moan rather than howl and I would be quickly at my 1-2 gearchange almost before I had tome to enjoy the jump.

The beauty part of my midnight-run therapy came in second and third gears, when the Elky had settled down to running straight and clean and I could just get off on the incredible intake howl of that sweet built 327 SBC at 7000-plus rpm, backed up with the gear whine of the Muncie.

I never strung it out in third gear on Chandler, choosing to click it somewhere between 90 and 100 mph and short shift into quiet fourth and let it all spool down while I basked in the rush of the sound and motion of just a few seconds ago.

I'd return home, a few minutes later, pull quietly into the driveway, turn off the igniton and hear the sweet laughter and little-girl squeals from my daughter's slumber party. Life was good, and precisely built small-block Chevies howling in small hours of the night just made it all the better.