Poll - Best Engine Note! In Anything!!!

> 10 years ago
Reply
Register to post, see what you've read, and subscribe to topics.
ikw777
ikw777
QLD
2995 posts
QLD, 2995 posts
13 Mar 2013 7:25pm
OK what do you think sounds best? Flat fours (air cooled of course ), inline sixes, rotaries, American/Aussie V8s, euro v12s, V10s, inline fours (God forbid), aero engines, F1, diesel locos?

I like it when a diesel loco goes through central station in Brisbane - ground shaking magnificence!

V8s on the dyno are pretty amazing too...

Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23646 posts
WA, 23646 posts
13 Mar 2013 5:27pm
anything in a V configuration, with 2 turbos, at 6000rpm plus.

ka43
ka43
NSW
3101 posts
NSW, 3101 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:27pm
Aston Martin Vanquish??
Lambo Countach??
stuk
stuk
NSW
894 posts
NSW, 894 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:44pm
Ducati MHe 900 Evoluzione....or then again anything ducati (including mine)
sn
sn
WA
2775 posts
sn sn
WA, 2775 posts
13 Mar 2013 6:27pm

just what every bloke needs, just to upset the kids outside maccas with thier blingluxes and turbowotsits
stephen
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23646 posts
WA, 23646 posts
13 Mar 2013 7:59pm
RC race engine.

40,000rpm on methanol and nitromethane.

Mmmmm noise and smell
d1
d1
WA
304 posts
d1 d1
WA, 304 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:12pm
Mig-21 afterburner.
sn
sn
WA
2775 posts
sn sn
WA, 2775 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:23pm
Mark _australia said...
RC race engine.

40,000rpm on methanol and nitromethane.

Mmmmm noise and smell


meh..kidstuff.
LJ50 at full song, burning castrol R= 539cc of pure awesomeness

stephen
Pitbull
Pitbull
WA
1267 posts
WA, 1267 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:30pm
The warp drive attached to The Enterprise.
juicerider
juicerider
WA
790 posts
WA, 790 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:38pm
Rolls-Royce Olympus 593
An engine still light years ahead of anything else. The sound of 4 of them at take off power and strapped to the fastest commercial aircraft, breathtaking.
busterwa
busterwa
3782 posts
3782 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:39pm
A; Isuzu diesel.
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23646 posts
WA, 23646 posts
13 Mar 2013 8:51pm
busterwa said...
A; Isuzu diesel.


I can see how clatter-clatter-clatter-clatter could be quite rythmic
kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
QLD
6525 posts
QLD, 6525 posts
13 Mar 2013 11:52pm
I got some favourites, a few before bed.

1951 they could make 600hp from 1.5ltr engine. Pretty mazing. V16 with RR supercharger. After the start skip to around 2:00 It's a big track, most of the vid is the sound of the car round the far side...
#t=119s


An aussie stuck a V12 merlin engine in a hydroplane, and won every race he entered. Aggressor:


This is a slightly modified R1 Yamaha 1ltr bike engine racing in italy. Also won a lot in a tiny car shell. Wet track oversteer monster. Great note echoing round. I think these rev limit at 14,000 rpm from the factory, easy to go more if you put in some stronger valves etc and override the CPU.


I'll find some more tomorrow...
fletchsewell
fletchsewell
QLD
31 posts
QLD, 31 posts
14 Mar 2013 12:11am
nebbian
nebbian
WA
6277 posts
WA, 6277 posts
13 Mar 2013 10:53pm
Listen to this thing.

Just LISTEN to it fly!

elmo
elmo
WA
8890 posts
WA, 8890 posts
13 Mar 2013 11:01pm
Top fuel Dragsters 20-50m down from the Christmas tree, something which needs to be experienced, the sound goes through your whole body

F1 cars, the tv does not do the sound justice

Harley Davisons with a proper OEM muffler on it, the after market ones just highlight what noisy buckets of sh1t they really are
Rus13b
Rus13b
NSW
271 posts
NSW, 271 posts
14 Mar 2013 7:49am
The mazda 787b, the won lemans in 1991, beating all the big name
brands in there little mazda. 700hp out of a 2.6lt. best sound ever.
Carnt link you's to it but its on the tube.
FlySurfer
FlySurfer
NSW
4460 posts
NSW, 4460 posts
14 Mar 2013 11:34am
BMW K1300R when on it.
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
QLD, 12365 posts
14 Mar 2013 11:00am
kiteboy dave said...
I got some favourites, a few before bed.

1951 they could make 600hp from 1.5ltr engine. Pretty mazing. V16 with RR supercharger. After the start skip to around 2:00 It's a big track, most of the vid is the sound of the car round the far side...
#t=119s





There is nothing quite like those older formula 1 cars for sheer adrenalin pumping engine noise.

If you can get hold of the movie Grand Prix starring James Garner you will get plenty of it. It was the first movie shown in Brisbane that had surround sound in the theatre.

This one wets my pants.




I would love to hear this one on the open road.

patsken
patsken
WA
717 posts
WA, 717 posts
14 Mar 2013 9:05am
Any Indian Chief at idle......even more agricultural than a Harley 'cos they are all sidevalve motors !!

Stand behind it and experience the exhaust pulses hitting you - and they are great to ride
SydPete
SydPete
WA
64 posts
WA, 64 posts
14 Mar 2013 9:06am
Zonda R

Cummins 6BT
pweedas
pweedas
WA
4642 posts
WA, 4642 posts
14 Mar 2013 11:21am
You can't beat the sound of a thumping great v8 grumbling away at 2000 rpm
This isn't one of them but it definitely has some musical ability in the rhythm section..
If we were still in the days of communications via smoke signals it would score well there too.

Rex
Rex
WA
949 posts
Rex Rex
WA, 949 posts
14 Mar 2013 12:42pm
kiteboy dave said...
I got some favourites, a few before bed.

1951 they could make 600hp from 1.5ltr engine. Pretty mazing. V16 with RR supercharger. After the start skip to around 2:00 It's a big track, most of the vid is the sound of the car round the far side...
#t=119s




Great sound.
NotWal
NotWal
QLD
7436 posts
QLD, 7436 posts
14 Mar 2013 2:58pm

Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23646 posts
WA, 23646 posts
14 Mar 2013 1:32pm
Loving all of them !!!!



How about the Atom V8? nothing exceptional in the sound but everything else is....


kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
QLD
6525 posts
QLD, 6525 posts
14 Mar 2013 8:32pm
Pweedas I was going to try to find that one tonight, it's great.


Quite possibly beastiest engine in existence at the moment... 144 litre, 7 x straight 6 radial, 8-10000hp, have a look at the size of the intake bell in the middle.



kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
QLD
6525 posts
QLD, 6525 posts
14 Mar 2013 8:52pm
Radial cranks for a while, just when you think she's never firing...

Ian K
Ian K
WA
4169 posts
WA, 4169 posts
14 Mar 2013 8:10pm
A bloke from way back used to have a soft top one of these. Made the best noises going through the gears but couldn't keep up with traffic.
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
QLD, 12365 posts
15 Mar 2013 12:30am
Surprised no one has put this up yet.

1100 + hp from a Falcon 4L six cylinder engine.

landyacht
landyacht
WA
5921 posts
WA, 5921 posts
14 Mar 2013 10:34pm

home grown noise from an engine.
it drowned out a chainsaw at 2kms
up close you could feel it
Ian K
Ian K
WA
4169 posts
WA, 4169 posts
15 Mar 2013 4:23am
landyacht said...

it drowned out a chainsaw at 2kms
up close you could feel it





Please Register, or first...
Topics Subscribe Reply

Return To Classic site 😭
Or... let us know if a problem, so we can tweak! 😅