Your favourite sounding car?

[Junkman]

So which car do you suggest for installing a Napier Deltic into to make it the best sounding car?

[oman5]

So which car do you suggest for installing a Napier Deltic into to make it the best sounding car?

I bet one of those tractor pulling types could do it, they fit stuff like multi row radial aero engines.

[rml2345]

At around 8 feet in height you'd need something with plenty of space.

Deltic powered LDV Convoy anyone?

[purplebargeken]

Anything that actually starts and runs!

 

Bikes: my TRX 850 on carbon cans. Wow!

 

The taxi: love that clatter.

 

The MGF with the roof down, cone filter and 52mm throttle body

[Wilko220]

I do miss the sound of real cars. When I was a kid my parents were bemused by my ability to name the car based on its sound before it came into view.

 

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I also had this party trick when I was about 9 years old or something. I don't think my mother has been so impressed by anything I've done since.

[Yoss]

That's not the best recording of a Deltic by a long shot (post #93). And whilst they sound incredible on the move and from several miles away they always got me simply idling.

 

Stand on a platform at the centre point of the loco so you're equidistant from each engine (to those of you who aren't cranks a Deltic locomotive has two Napier Deltic 18 cylinder engines). As one engine is supplying heat/light to the train it idles faster than the front one. Stand in the middle and it's utterly mesmerising as the beat of the two engines synchronises and then separates again. I could never leave before the Deltic did.

 

I feel we've gone off topic here. We should probably start a new thread.

[nisfan]

The sigma v6 sounds quite nice, that might be to do with the blowing exhaust though! Still think it's better than a straight 6 bmw

[Dick Cheeseburger]

My nova sport on sidedraught carbs. No better sound in my opinion. Added to that the whine of the straight cut box!

You have a Nova Sport?

[willswitchengage]

For shear insanity purposes... this is a Russian copy of the Wright Cylone; a 30 litre 9-cylinder radial engine producing ~1000 hp. I have seen these running before at Farnborough - even at the low, non-propeller load in this video they are absolutely deafening. At full throttle they're drinking almost a litre of petrol a second.

 

Skip to half way through to see it turned on.

 

[Faker]

You have a Nova Sport?

Two! One real (been in storage for many many years. Ill get round to it some day) and one not so real...

 

Not so real was a newly built rally car in 1987, registered as a 1.3 base (as all sports were supposed to be registered) and rac log booked as a 1300 group a. Technically a nova sport for competition purposes... but not really a nova sport.

[martybabes]

So which car do you suggest for installing a Napier Deltic into to make it the best sounding car?

 

Oops, I got carried away.  When I started, it was restricted to car engines, then I went off on one (as one does) with engines in general.  Sozzers.

[Formula Autos]

Four cylinder: Minor, Fiesta mk1/2 of around 1 litre, Beetle, Jowett flat-four

Five cylinder: Audi/Ford/Volvo 5-pot (they're all related somehow, aren't they?)

Six cylinder:Ford Duratec V6 (I have one in my Cougar - not the fastest of things, given its capacity, but sounds great at full chat). Also sounds "right" (to my ears) in a Jag X-type, given that they're meant to be a sporty(ish), small Jag.

Eight cylinder: Chrysler Hemi V8s, of the vintage found in Jensen Interceptors and later Bristols. And the General Lee.

Ten cylinder: A neighbour of mine briefly had a V10 BMW M5, which sounded great at full chat, and not dissimilar to a BMW Williams F1 car of around 2003 (albeit when it was pulling out of the pits on a hint of throttle - the road car couldn't rev anywhere near as high).

Twelve cylinder: The Miura at the start of the Italian Job, bouncing off the sides of an Alpine pass.

Diseasel: The V6 Turbo used in various things like big Jags/Land Rovers/Range Rovers and some bigger PSA cars always sounds interesting to me.

 

As for non-car engines the Vulcan takes a lot of beating. It sounds like it's about to warp space and time.

[fordperv]

Two! One real (been in storage for many many years. Ill get round to it some day) and one not so real...

 

Not so real was a newly built rally car in 1987, registered as a 1.3 base (as all sports were supposed to be registered) and rac log booked as a 1300 group a. Technically a nova sport for competition purposes... but not really a nova sport.

Pictures please

[sierraman]

TVR Chimera with straight through cherry bomb on it.

[Faker]

Pictures please

[Asimo]

Nissan Leaf.

[fordperv]

 

Pictures please

That looks lovely, ive got a bit of a soft spot for mk1 novas

[P304r5]

my Peugeot 304 Cabriolet sounds pretty good with the roof off especially with the blowing exhaust 

[Guest bangerfan101]

Straight 6 datsun.

Morris Minor coming down the gears.

2.8 Grannada screaming v6 with exhaust cut off at downpipes

[Noel Tidybeard]

 

1 cylinder - 1970's diesel tarmac thumper

2 cylinder - Ducatti

3 cylinder - Commer knocker

4 cylinder - marina 1.8tc/ sherpa coupe

5 cylinder - Focus st

6 cylinder - essex 3.0

8 cylinder - Range Rover 3.5

10 cylinder - BMW M5

12 cylinder - Aston Martin Vanquish

 

[Uncle Jimmy]

Marse Miner changing gear, parrrrp!

Minis, the whining gearbox, was that because of the box in sump?

The Volvo 240 that bumbles up and down my lane past the workshop- very distinctive.

Lotus 912 engine- the best induction sound- evah.

Alfa V6.

Ford Cologne V4.

MR2 Toyota 4AGE at 8,000 rippums

Mk1/2 Fiesta, odd burble, very distinctive.

Commer 'knocker' BT van going about its bad tempered business c1975.

BSA bantam 175 being given a thrashing by a fat old bloke c1980.

[Uncle Jimmy]

BRM V16.

[Jazoli]

BRM V16.

Couldn't agree more

[Honey Badger]

For those that say 4 cylinders sound shit have never had the pleasure of keeping an S2000 F20C in the 6000 to 9000rpm Vtec Yo range down some private* country lanes, yes its maybe a bit harsh and metallic but its soooo addictive, add in the snick of swapping gears and I'm missing my old one more every day.

 

Until I try to get out of it, then I remember  why we sold it.

[mercrocker]

All this is whetting my appetite - must get to a Prescott or Shelsley Walsh this year.....

[fordperv]

2.8 Grannada screaming v6 with exhaust cut off at downpipes

You bad bad man, Im smiling now thinking of years back at Buxton watching granadas and cortinas flying around, I loved it

[Junkman]

Top fuelers don't necessarily sound good in the truest sense of the word, but man, aren't they awesome sounding?

 

[forddeliveryboy]

Nissan Leaf.

Ah man, that's so sad. Like have you never heard an i3, with its reel pistons and valves? Awesome.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Dm8LoI6rM

[Asimo]

Ah man, that's so sad. Like have you never heard an i3, with its reel pistons and valves? Awesome.

 

 

Doh!

 

 

About to reply to the effect that what I drove to work this morning was an I(nline)3 and although it sounded better than an I4 it was a bit clattery and anyway the best sounding 3 cylinder road car is a Wartburg.

[forddeliveryboy]

Or an i8