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All about that bling bling innit? 
It's not a picture, but here's some exhaust porn if anyone is interested.. my cousin decided to wake the neighbours when I dropped in
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21341/random/AM/exhaust.mp4
Skilfully edited using Windows Movie Maker
Have you removed the exhaust valve fuse from the car so it's permanently open?
No, that's with fuse 22 still in - I have removed it once but its too loud when I am leaving for work at silly AM - I might look at having a switch fitted.
Oh that's all fine, time and a place for everything and all that!
But you've seen the type I'm on about, the usual "spotted supercars" crowd, always revving at every light, always revving when parked up
Back to my point on simulated car engine sound.
Car exhaust noise is similar to loud music - only the person playing it wants to here it, no one else is in the slightest bit interested.
Pumped into the cabin engine noise means the driver should be happy and so is everyone else not in the car because they can't hear the noise pollution.
Save the loud sounding engines for the F1 track.......oh
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Depends on the noise, if it sounds like a hairdryer, then nobody wants to hear it - So having synthetic sounds pumped in the cabin is all well and good for the occupants, but everyone else hears a hairdryer
If the engine/exhaust sounds somewhat exotic, then different matter. Generally only the elderly and people with a general complaining attitude don't want to hear that.
But again, time and place for everything. All cars sound much nicer anyway when accelerating on the road, not when revving standing still.
If the engine/exhaust sounds somewhat exotic, then different matter. Generally only the elderly and people with a general complaining attitude don't want to hear that.
But again, time and place for everything. All cars sound much nicer anyway when accelerating on the road, not when revving standing still.
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I like hearing the sound of a nice, real, engine driving past... so you're statement is incorrect, SDK^
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I made at least 6 school children look up from their phones when I left a roundabout in second with my foot down this morning, does that count?Depends on the noise, if it sounds like a hairdryer, then nobody wants to hear it - So having synthetic sounds pumped in the cabin is all well and good for the occupants, but everyone else hears a hairdryer
If the engine/exhaust sounds somewhat exotic, then different matter. Generally only the elderly and people with a general complaining attitude don't want to hear that.
But again, time and place for everything. All cars sound much nicer anyway when accelerating on the road, not when revving standing still.
Why does it have to simulate engine soundBack to my point on simulated car engine sound.
Car exhaust noise is similar to loud music - only the person playing it wants to here it, no one else is in the slightest bit interested.
Pumped into the cabin engine noise means the driver should be happy and so is everyone else not in the car because they can't hear the noise pollution.
Save the loud sounding engines for the F1 track.......oh
it's a powerful car it should create an awesome sound coming from the exhausts like my ST225 which is probably -100bhp on your R. Can't be a real sound when u boot it. Knowing its simulated would irritate me.
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I'd have said that there was quite a difference, as the simulated noise is fabricated, whereas an exhaust system uses the existing engine noise and it is all done mechanically.
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I made at least 6 school children look up from their phones when I left a roundabout in second with my foot down this morning, does that count?
I remember making quite a few people jump and scream in a scared fashion with a buddyclub exhaust I had on my MX5.
It was a decat + straight pipe... so LOUD.
It had been doing the rounds on MX5NUTZ forum for a few years because it was too loud for everyone.
I thought I'd give it a go for a giggle.
I managed to keep it on the car for a full week before I put something more suitable on.
The blue flames coming out the back of an NA car were pretty impressive
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Haha! That sounds like a health and safety issue to me, and more useful to have a chuckle at as opposed to admiring
Noise being fabricated electronically or mechanically is different
it's still frabricated There are some awesome sounding one litre Corsa's and some dire sounding F10 M5's.
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Noise being fabricated electronically or mechanically is different
There are some awesome sounding one litre Corsa's and some dire sounding F10 M5's.
That's OK... I'm sure you enjoy fleshlights just as much as the real thing...
/ can't say I've every heard an awesome sounding Corsa... when they're modified... they tend to try to emulate Subaru Imprezas and in doing so, lose back pressure and 1/3 of their torque.
Noise being fabricated electronically or mechanically is different
Well, not really. It's just tuning the output of the real engine sound, rather than fabricating it entirely. Think of it as listening to a live instrument rather than a synthesised noise of the same instrument. Technically they might sound similar, but the sound of a real instrument is much more satisfying and natural.
I would much rather listen to the real sound of an engine/exhaust, even if it has been engineered to deliver that sound, than a completely fake engine note delivered through the speakers.
Just to clarify though, I'm not talking about the utterly ridiculous cracks/bangs that are engineered into a lot of modern performance cars to happen on every single shift. If they happen naturally as a result of the way the car is fuelling, fine, but there's a guy who lives near me who drives some big Mercedes, might be C63 or something, who boots it up the road sometimes and it sound horrendous. Makes a kind of farting noise on the up shift and it just sounds like the car is broken.
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Pops and bangs get tiresome, I tweaked the map on the MX5 to give a couple of pops/cracks on the over run before decel fuel cut came in. It was all fun and games for about a week and a half then it just got annoying after it did I everytime you lifted off above 2500rpm or changed down from 3rd to 2nd slowing for any reason