What in your opinion is the best sounding powerplant?

WHAT?...........................................................WHAT?
WHAT?WHAT?

 

Lots of good choices here, I liked any built motor with a set of Cherry Bombs behind it. Something I didn't hear too often but thought was cool, was a built 235 with a split header, but if were also talking airplanes, I once had the opportunity to be in the cockpit of a B-29 with all 72 cylinders lit, an experience I'll never forget!

 

SHELTONK7 mentioned a good one. Take in a 2 cycle Detroit in a antique tractor pulling a sled and you will be saying WHAT?? WHAT?? fer sure!

 

Has to be a flatty, go slow but sound cool...

 

The blue pickup.

 

You can't run an engine on 100% nitro. Nitro doesn't burn on it's own ,you have to have 2% combustable minimum or the engine will hydraulic.

 

I agree with you though I like going to Oshkosh for the air show head straight to the warbirds They are the hotrods of the sky nothing sounds cooler than a corsair firing up

 

My pick for "early" V8's, STUDEBAKER !!! but I have a thing for ford fe's lately

 

Mopar flathead six with a split manifold

 

A friend's black & silver, '37 Buick Century Dual Sidemount Coupe with an exhaust "CANNON" made from a tapered drive shaft-----Sounded like a cross between a DUESENBERG & a SHERMAN TANK!!! Capone's car was nothing. Bill W.

 

You just can't assume anything around here!

 

My buddy Jer's dual dominator Indy Hemi

 

I watched this video on blast every day when everybody left the office. My favorite


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Ok a couple of my favourites. Enjoy

When it comes to V12's and music I think Matra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnCNyB52J0Q

When it comes to V-Twins then I think Vincent- Supercharged or NA , I'm not fussy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLzFdm88Yw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya2vlvX1vFk

 

At the five mile mark they all sound like they are in neutral

But standing on the straight away bridge at the old Riverside California track and listing to the Can-Am McLaren hitting high gear with the big block chevy is unforgetable. Chills

 

While i'm prejudiced towards Yblocks & flatheads I've heard many great sounding engines of all makes. Let me add Harleys in the mix.

 

well; yeah. i shoulda said anything uncapped that makes REAL horsepower.

my bad...

 

Yes definitely!

There's nothing like the sound of a Shovelhead or iron head Sportster with 1-3/4" drag pipes.

Patatoe patatoe patatoe patatoe.....

 

When I hear a Harley, and it happens all too often, all I think of is 'poor engineering' and 'slow'.

Noise from an engine is great when the engine has a reason to be noisy.

 

I am glad you mentioned that, I was going to say something but I blew it off.

Actually the most knowlegeable flathead guy that I know of says that on 50% you were lucky to get through the weekend with a flatty. He says you could run one on 50% way back when everyone else was running valve in head engines, blow it up and be running another the next week end.

 

I love the sound of a y block with glass or steel packs. Now that I have an FE I've grown pretty fond of that sound too...


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You must be one of those Jap scrap, rice rocket runners!

 

Don't Harleys hold all of the NHRA records for drag bikes? That doesnt seem slow to me!!!!

 

Checkmate!

 

Obviously spoken without knowledge or experience.
Poor engineering has lasted the test of time for DECADES with no reason to change. Yep must be a bad design. Or maybe its a classic case of getting it right the first time.

45*, single pin crank, knife and fork rods

 

Hey Vic, allow me to correct you..... It's been over a CENTURY of quality two-wheelin'.

 

Well lets see 200,000 miles on a 35 year old bike, Wendover to Salt Lake city in 34 minutes, yea that's poorley engineered and slow. I'll have to buy me a CB 750 for damned sure.

 

I'm with these guys^^^^^^^^^^

 

Well there is a place for highwinding jap bikes, but they don't allow outhouses in most major cities anymore.