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I've heard a 26B in real life with close to 600hp @ 8500rpm daily driven. Saw it at a drag day and he couldn't get it to grip off the line and had problems changing from 2nd I think but the personal best is in the 10 second bracket. It sounds awesome high pitch very close to an F1.

I also have a video clip of it - but I'm afraid to say my hosting is down.. :(
 
Ev0
And no piston aircraft can even come close to the sound of an F-14 at full afterburner. Your chest feels like it will rupture, and your eardrums will explode. It is probably the coolest (and loudest) thing I have ever heard in my life.
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It is an amazing sound - even the modest F-16 sounds great on full burner - but jets just don't have that sweet mechanical song that the Merlin has. Allison V-12s are almost as good, but the Merlin has the most beautiful mechanical sound I've ever heard.
 
Ohhh this is one of the best thread in quite a while.

I'm torn between two very specific engines.

Alfa Romeo V6 - those of you in the USA may never have heard one of these but the noise is quite wonderful. Top notch powerplant as well.

Rover V8 - One of the most succesful engines ever (and longest running), and an American cast-off.

And its the Rover V8 that I have to go for, but not in its 4.3 litre form (as The Cracker went for). Now mine is it the same car (Griffith) but the 5 litre version from the Griffith 500. Pure aural heaven, particularly in a tunnel with the noise bouncing all around you.

Scaff now has to go and have a lie down.
 
mrhambone
i had to say other due to there being a BRM V16 - its a 1940's racer with about 600bhp from a 1.5 litre v16 sounds awesome , sends tingles down your spine
http://www.f1-fansite.com/sound/Brm_v16.mp3
can download it going around a track jst sound no video
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Sorry but that is the most orgasmic sound ever!
I've heard one in teh flesh before at goodwood, and it does sound better than a merlin from a spitfire. It's just.............unimaginable. It properly makes you grumble from every part of your body, you think you're about to explode and when it does roar past you, you just can't help but have a missve grin on your face!
That sound recroding was taken at the front of goodwood race track, and the V16 is soo loud, you could hear it make a complete lap of Goodwood. That's just........can you get that with any other car apart from an F1 car?

Although the Panoz V8 does come very close. Going to Le Mans, and when arriving the first thin I remember was hearing an almighty roar comming from a distance. When we reached the gates of the track you thought it was the end of teh world it was soo loud. Ok it was amplified by the stands and stuff but still that made you rumble.
 
Scaff
Ohhh this is one of the best thread in quite a while.

I'm torn between two very specific engines.

Alfa Romeo V6 - those of you in the USA may never have heard one of these but the noise is quite wonderful. Top notch powerplant as well.

Rover V8 - One of the most succesful engines ever (and longest running), and an American cast-off.

And its the Rover V8 that I have to go for, but not in its 4.3 litre form (as The Cracker went for). Now mine is it the same car (Griffith) but the 5 litre version from the Griffith 500. Pure aural heaven, particularly in a tunnel with the noise bouncing all around you.

Scaff now has to go and have a lie down.
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I've never heard one in person, but I bet you Griffith 500 sounds amazing.:drool:
 
DRIFT4EVA
They use daihatsu engines .
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:grumpy: The Daihatsu 1 ltr 3 cylinder engine sounds awesome! Especially when its got a turbo cramming air down its intake. The best word i can use to describe it is "throbby", oh, and rev-happy!

I think it was Takumi who said that the 4AGE sounds awesome. I have to agree on that one - once the T-VIS kicks in, its even beter!

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Scaff
Rover V8 - One of the most succesful engines ever (and longest running), and an American cast-off.
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Is that the one from Buick, and in the early Range Rovers?
If so they sound AWESOME!!!

But yeah V8 for the best sounding engine. I've got a clip of a '60s Australian Ford Falcon GT with the 351 Clevland going half way round Bathurst and that sound beats any exotic V12 imo.
Then theres the old school 289, 302 from Ford, 305, 308, 327, 350 and 427 from GM.
Ferrari 360M sounds the **** too.
And BMWs 4.4 in the 5/6/7 series and Range Rover sounds the part as well.
 
I voted for the boxer 4. It probably isn't the BEST sounding engine out there, but I like mine. I like how my little 2 liter doesn't sound quite as whiney as most others.
 
miniMADness
:grumpy: The Daihatsu 1 ltr 3 cylinder engine sounds awesome! Especially when its got a turbo cramming air down its intake. The best word i can use to describe it is "throbby", oh, and rev-happy!

I think it was Takumi who said that the 4AGE sounds awesome. I have to agree on that one - once the T-VIS kicks in, its even beter!

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Actuallly, it was me that came in about the 4A-GE... however, T-VIS is for low RPM operation, it works to give the car more torque in the lower RPM band. Now me, I have VVT on my 4A :sly: Get that timing change :dopey: and WEEEE. That, and the idle sounds mean wtih an HKS exhaust 👍
 
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Is that the one from Buick, and in the early Range Rovers?
If so they sound AWESOME!!!
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Its the GM cast-off that Rover bought the rights to, has been used in Range/Land Rovers, various Rover, TVR, Westfield and many other cars.

Without a doubt one of the finest engines ever made, its been refined over the years, but sadly stoped production this year due to increasingly strict emmision regulations.

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Info http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?engineroverv8f.htm
 
I chose 5-inline because Audi Quattro's sound is just awesome!

Another awesome sounds are old, 1970-1990 F1s.
 
American V8, pre cat-converter...

Nothing better then the sound of twenty 410 powered sprint cars standing on the gas coming out of turn one on the green flag...

Sweet methanol fueled, mechanically injected, open header emotion....
 
Sorry, nothing beats the sound of a built V8 with a thumping cam.

I've heard those damn rotaries screaming like weedeaters, and I hate them most of all. The Viper V10 sounds like crap, and there's no way in hell you can compare the annoying blast of NOISE from a Jet engine to the beautiful symphony of those old WWII piston engines. You poor people have been damaged by technology, and your definition of what's cool has been twisted and warped so badly you don't even realize what you're missing. :D
 
I'm sorry, but no piston engine in existance has anything on the pure thunder that is produced from the back of an F-14 at full afterburner. The sound, and vibration produced is simply mind blowing (almost literally). About the only thing that could surpass the sound of a military jet engine at full afterburner would be a rocket engine, like the Space Shuttle, and of course the mighty Saturn 5 (I think it's the most powerful vehicle ever made, someone please back me up on that).
 
Ev0
I'm sorry, but no piston engine in existance has anything on the pure thunder that is produced from the back of an F-14 at full afterburner. The sound, and vibration produced is simply mind blowing (almost literally). About the only thing that could surpass the sound of a military jet engine at full afterburner would be a rocket engine, like the Space Shuttle, and of course the mighty Saturn 5 (I think it's the most powerful vehicle ever made, someone please back me up on that).
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Obviously a thread like this is always going to be rediculous to argue, because we're talking about opinions, but it's fun to disagree.

I was in the Navy and I heard plenty of jets, and I didn't like a thing about them. Simply making loud noise does not equal "cool" in my book. It's got to have a more to it than that.

Like....these two examples 💡

Burnout

Cobra Revving
 
Surprisingly enough, the exact same motor was used by buick in its most famous showcar in 1951, the Le Sabre. the entire engine worked and wieghed only 550 pounds. for 1951!

:drool: the BRM V 16 is yummylicious, But I've heard a P-51 at an airshow, and it has to be the best. Bar None.

*little known fact* - the ford mustang was named after the fighter plane, but people associated mustang with a horse instead. Imagine "fighter cars" instead of "pony cars"
 
I agree with anyone who says the BRM V16 (not the H16) sounds gloriuos. It's the combination of the eagre rumble at idle, buzzing at mid-revs and howling mid-high to the the high-pitched scream at 9500+ rpm. God, it sounds good.
 
toyomatt84
I disagree. The Scoot RX-7 at full rev. makes me orgasm.

Anyways, I chose the I-6. I've had nothing but great luck with that style engine, unlike V-8's and V-6's. It even went as far as to start right up after being tipped over and having the oil drain from the pan towards the pistons, without any after-effects.
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Thats a WAY different engine than the standard rx7 engine. It would be comparable as to an inline 4 (normal RX7) to a ferrari flat 12 (scoot sports FD). The engine they put in that was a custom one off 12a based four rotor engine with peripheral intake and exhaust ports. Closely related to the r26b that was in the 787B but only displaces 2.4L, has one less spark plug per chamber, and doesn't have the magnificant telescoping intake tract.

The standard RX7 engine does sound a little bit "raspy" but its still the best. :)
 
lol who voted inline 4 :lol: v8 for me :drool:, there arnt many inline 5's about, the only one i know is in the fiat coupe and that sounds great, also the engine in the clio v6 sounds meaty for a lil renault :scared:
 
I voted inline 4. Why, cause how can you argue with the sound of a car you actually own? V8 are too brutish :p

High reving whiny bastard engines all the way :D
Though some 6 cyls do sound nice... and the b13 rotary has an eerie unforgetable sound... but 4 cyl all the way
 
V8 all the way, Ive heard so many good sounding V8's, hotrods, etc. they sound so good
 
Taurine
I've heard a 26B in real life with close to 600hp @ 8500rpm daily driven. Saw it at a drag day and he couldn't get it to grip off the line and had problems changing from 2nd I think but the personal best is in the 10 second bracket. It sounds awesome high pitch very close to an F1.

I also have a video clip of it - but I'm afraid to say my hosting is down.. :(
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I have a video of a red FD w/4rotor at some drag strip is that the one you saw? I think this video was posted on GTP before.
 
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