What in your opinion is the best sounding powerplant?

The engines I've heard with the off-road cams were in "street" cars.

 

nothing warms my heart quite like the pop and crackle of a 235 with straight pipes under deceleration...

 

To me nothing quite sounds like the Flat Cad at full song, amazing..........

 

"Blew by you " is one awesome hot rod.
Videos just can't do it justice .

 

You got it.

 

283 bored an eighth over, full dome TRW's, Comes up on the cam at about 4500 and spins to 8500. That's just sweet music!

 

427 Ford with a lotta compression and a lotta stick- the boomer
And a late Hammy ain't bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsis4EQeDCE&feature=related

 

I'm torn between a Flat Head,a Hemi,or a Ferrari.I guess it's just the mood you're in.Also,my old 327 with double hump heads,uncapped.Another mood....

 

A Genuine 427 Cobra with open side pipes at Full Song - Nothing is sweeter!

 

X2! ...and not just because that's what I'm currently running

 

Come on, ya gotta admit that if the sound of a Can Am car, Bonneville run at full song, or an altered's WaWaWaWaWa when it's not quit hooked up doesn't make ya smile a little, then ya ain't quite right. Kinda like chips, betcha can't pick just one.

 

Gives me chills no matter how many times I have heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

BRM V16

 

Tough to beat the sound of a big Cammer at full song.



O/T, I always get a kick out of a tuned up "Buzzin Dozen".

 

Yea you're right!

That J.D. Gator sounds awesome!

 

I am a Chevy guy, but if you have ever seen and heard footage of Phil Bonner's red Falcon running on nitro. The cammer in that car is awesome.

 

on the street; through full mufflers; big block mopar from the muscle car era. (not that there's anything wrong with any of the suggestions so far; but the question was best)

uncapped: anything...

 

I was on the back side of a hill, mowing a road up to the peak. He didn't know I was there, but I sure knew he was.

 

A 325 ci flathead running on 100% nitro on the dyno.
After that a 270 Offy timing in on a 1/2 mile dirt track.

 

Most distinct and identifiable one I can think of is an old Cushman Eagle with a gutted muffler. Wish I still had my '58.

 

Turn it up. Click on Rare Bear and friends Reno 2003.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...830F47C244011AA916DC83&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5

 

wholly disagree - there is NOTHING worse than some uncorked wheezer 305 with no compression and a stock cam NOTHING.

 

10-4 on that one- every once in a while some kid goes flyin' around in his old Chebbie pickup with a new set of uncapped headers and no hood- you've seen him lol- blaaatttpopbangblaaaatttpopbangrepeatrepeat....

 

Datsun 2.0, weber, offy intake, single 2" pipe out the back and an old glasspack.

 

...or maybe a 70 Z/28 with an LT-1 and the off road cam. something about a nice solid lifter cam gives me goosebumps.

 

AMEN! I've been there and experienced that...simply badass! Next best thing is walking the pits and listening to them tune and rev it...

 

It's hard to beat the sound of an "FE"!

 

How about a 30's single seat racer with a hopped up banger and six feet of straight pipe down the side of the body?

 

peterbuilt 425

 

A large displacement early Chrysler (392 + 1/2 or 5/8 stroker), with an 8 or 10-71 @ 25% over and 60deg lead on 90 to 95% nitro. I dare say it's sweeter sounding with the throttle feathered doing a 1/8 mi burnout than a Merlin in a P-51.

The Chrysler simply had to be designed from jump street with something besides gasoline fuel in mind as natural as it is supercharged on methanol and nitro.

I have only heard the V-12 Ferrari on a video, but certainly in the running.
Tom S. in Tn.