Revving

[WildHorse]

GTR you mean?

Fuckin autocorrect lol

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[grabber yote]

My 3 inch stainless Pypes H-bomb cat back attracts attention. Old folks don’t like it. Lol.

 

[2018OFPP1?2]

In the two weeks I've had my car, I've had a half dozen people ask me to rev it. From adolescent boys, to boy racers with fart cannons on their imports. BTW, the stock active valve exhaust on the 2018 works just fine in track mode for this purpose.

 

[Hack]

I love the sound of the cars, that's not the "douchey" part. If they just revved it would be fine. It's the speeding on a residential street with kids, pets and old people puttering around.

Got it. :cheers:

 

[69mach1-395]

If you thinks this is bad, try a diesel truck. I was towing my trailer thru a small town yesterday and a guy with his kid in a new dirtymax chevy decided it would be fun to roll some coal past me. My wife got panicky when at the next light I revved my loud ass 7.3 at them, which he did not like at all. Of course mine doesn't blow black smoke, which is a big waste and very childish. Anyway, no road rage, just fun and games.

 

[Norm Peterson]

My 3 inch stainless Pypes H-bomb cat back attracts attention. Old folks don’t like it. Lol.

Loud for the sake of being loud is not something I've ever liked, and sometimes it's the character of the sound that's more annoying than its volume (I find Flowmaster'ed Fox/SN95 Mustangs to be particularly offensive in this regard).

It's one thing for a car's exhaust sound to have a "voice" that's a bit above a factory-sedan whisper. Just enough louder to notice it's a little louder or sounds a little different is enough.

Maybe it's the people who think that "only a little louder" isn't loud enough are the ones who aren't as much the "car guys" they think they are. Else they wouldn't need all that extra loudness to tell that a car has a modified exhaust that might hint at other mods of interest. No, anything quieter than an "ear-bleeder" is too subtle for them . . .


Norm

 

[Ebm]

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Loud for the sake of being loud is not something I've ever liked, and sometimes it's the character of the sound that's more annoying than its volume (I find Flowmaster'ed Fox/SN95 Mustangs to be particularly offensive in this regard).

It's one thing for a car's exhaust sound to have a "voice" that's a bit above a factory-sedan whisper. Just enough louder to notice it's a little louder or sounds a little different is enough.

Maybe it's the people who think that "only a little louder" isn't loud enough are the ones who aren't as much the "car guys" they think they are. Else they wouldn't need all that extra loudness to tell that a car has a modified exhaust that might hint at other mods of interest. No, anything quieter than an "ear-bleeder" is too subtle for them . . .


Norm

Heat and noise is a byproduct of power in an ICE. No way around it. Tell me how many times you've heard a quiet car(Don't be stupid and say an electric car, those don't count) on a drag strip or race track? It just doesn't happen all that often.

 

[TexasRebel]

Heat and noise is a byproduct of power in an ICE. No way around it. Tell me how many times you've heard a quiet car(Don't be stupid and say an electric car, those don't count) on a drag strip or race track? It just doesn't happen all that often.

Higher cylinder pressures make louder "pops" when the exhaust valve opens.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Heat and noise is a byproduct of power in an ICE. No way around it.

Of course. But it doesn't need to be left "dialed up to 11".

I've had to listen to 'ear-bleeder-level-loud' cars at autocross (as a course worker) and even a couple of times at HPDE where a car passing was too loud even with my full-face helmet on.

On the street, there's zero need for anything approaching those levels. Showing off is not a legitimate reason.


Norm

 

[Ebm]

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Heat and noise is a byproduct of power in an ICE. No way around it.

Of course. But it doesn't need to be left "dialed up to 11".

I've had to listen to 'ear-bleeder-level-loud' cars at autocross (as a course worker) and even a couple of times at HPDE where a car passing was too loud even with my full-face helmet on.

On the street, there's zero need for anything approaching those levels. Showing off is not a legitimate reason.


Norm

Norm,

I agree there's no need and it's probably actually illegal how loud(in decibels) some of these cars on the street are.

But at the same time... I'm a hypocrite. My car is pretty loud. Not ear piercing, but it's hard to tame the V8 waiting to get out.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Norm,

I agree there's no need and it's probably actually illegal how loud(in decibels) some of these cars on the street are.

But at the same time... I'm a hypocrite. My car is pretty loud. Not ear piercing, but it's hard to tame the V8 waiting to get out.

Explosively transforming fuel + oxygen into propulsion is indeed an intrinsically noisy process, whether the "vehicle" being propelled weighs up toward 4000 lbs or only 17 grains (sorry I screwed up closing the quote in yesterday's post, since fixed).

These days - and I doubt that this is just around where I live - when you hear what's clearly a V8 and hope to see a Mustang/Camaro/Challenger . . . or better yet some classic musclecar still being street-driven, you're likely to end up disappointed.

Used to be, you could count on the V8 rumble coming from a ponycar or a musclecar. Nowadays, it's almost always some truck being driven by somebody blessed (cursed?) with too many rudeness genes.


Norm

 

[chain]

I had a Challenger pull up next to me a couple weeks ago in front of a red light. I started revving and my wife kept telling me to stop. I kept it going and when the light turned green I nailed it with everything I had. Dude pulled away like I was barely moving. My wife was laughing, it was pretty funny.

I was driving her Rav4.

 

[ivantwilliams]

I had a Challenger pull up next to me a couple weeks ago in front of a red light. I started revving and my wife kept telling me to stop. I kept it going and when the light turned green I nailed it with everything I had. Dude pulled away like I was barely moving. My wife was laughing, it was pretty funny.

I was driving her Rav4.

My wife and I are here cracking up! :cheers::lol:

 

[rick81721]

I had a Challenger pull up next to me a couple weeks ago in front of a red light. I started revving and my wife kept telling me to stop. I kept it going and when the light turned green I nailed it with everything I had. Dude pulled away like I was barely moving. My wife was laughing, it was pretty funny.

I was driving her Rav4.

My wife doesn't even like me driving with the sport exhaust mode. Needless to say, no revving goes on when she's the passenger

 

[cnycomp]

Why have a big V8 if you dont want to rev it up and hear the rumble. I love revving it up but no I dont usually do it to other cars.

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