Features Best sounding engines ?

At Goodguys Nashville I saw/heard HAMB member the-rodster in his Buckshot 29 RPU driving by the swap meet all weekend. That little flatty sure sounded sweet popping along at just above idle.

 

Thought I was the only one. A 289 with a solid lifter cam made the sweetest sounds I ever heard, idling with a lope or wound out. It was in a 65 Falcon Sprint, and the year was 1967.

 

No kidding . . . that 4 min video of magicar from awhile back is the best of the best of those videos. That was THE video that made me want to build a fed.


As much as I love the 392 and modern AJ/TFX/BAE hemis, I still would have to go with the 800" mountain motor pro stock engines.

More full sounding than the 500" nhra engines and have their own special tone. I always thought they had a "throwing sheet metal on the ground" quality when they blip the throttle.

The one summer I interned at Jon Kaase's, I would leave the back door open when cleaning cylinder heads and listen to the exhaust coming out of the dyno room. The stacks were probably 6-7 feet from the door and there's not one bit of sound deadening material in them. The stacks are all for looks.

 

V-8 Studebaker w/glasspacks at cold idle. slow and sweet.

 

Easy: Jimmy White's putt around the back lots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAW3oV8tw8

 

almost all wood boats with v8s on the water

 

The best real "sound" I've heard on a street car has always been from a Y block.

The most impressive was from a 63 409 in 1965 that pulled up beside me in Sunnyside, Wa and literately bounced my Nash Metro ragtop off the pavement. That engine hit harder than any pro fairgrounds blown hemi I have ever heard.

 

The first start up of any motor.

 

brm racing vids on youtube.

 

I am a little partial to 289's Here is a short vid of a 289 that I built last year for an International Bobber Truck. Hyd. flat tappet and home made headers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNX-bkx0oMA

 

Dual Wright R-2600s, 14 cylinder radials.
Nothing like the cockpit of a B-25 to get your blood moving.

Also make you go deaf right quick, lol.

 

Or a 20b three rotor Wankel at 10k rpm.

For the record these are the non hamb friendly engines I can think of.
There are plenty of old school powerplants that around amazing.

Actually, now that I think about it, the Wright is period correct.

 

yblocks and flatheads with straight pipes!

 

High strung inline sixes....

The most evil motor I've ever heard? Road race built SBF in a Cobra. Jag V12 breathing through six Webers and dumping out headers is pretty special too!

 

Nothing sounds sexier then flathead with a hot cam!!! Although... I did have an 85 silverado with 95 block with 67 corvette 2.02 feullie heads on and a huge cam!!! My buddie called it the potato truck... Cuz when it idled... It was like potata potata potata potata!!!!

 

Y-blocks

 

396/375 L78 Super Sport Chevelle with chambered exhaust system..
Triumph X-75 Hurricane 750 3 cyl. motorcycle
Early solid lifter cam equipped 283 in whatever Chevrolet with Walker Continental glasspacs...

 

Fun thread. Even my wife likes it. She especially was impressed by the Desoto on the salt flats.

Here's a pretty sweet sounding engine...just your typical Small Block Chevy...lol.

 

Big blown OLDS at 1/2 -3/4 track.

 

How about a blown Flathead on Nitro... The fourth exhaust port under the blower makes the noise all that much sweeter.



I have to agree with the larger number of reply's favoring the noise coming out of a 2-Stroke Detroit under load. Nothing ever invented by mankind has been more efficient at converting fuel to noise then a 2-Stroke Detroit.

 

had a 1970 Z/28 with the 11-1 solid lifter LT-1 350 back in the early 80's. had the "off road Z cam" ... don't recall the specs. open headers and solid lifters... love that sound.

 

Big block Chevy's.

 

x2!

 

Al Teagues streamliner going thru the gears at Bonneville will put goose bumps all over your body in the early morning on the salt. A Chevy big block blown street roadster pushing into the wind over 200 will light your fire also

 

A turboed OFFY under full load at indy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nMNjOIRbA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

 

Ford 427 SOHC... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnUjxlp9_Q

Steve

 

A big straight eight sounds like an aircraft engine with straight pipes or an exhaust leak.

When I was last at a show with my Packard, (HAMB unfriendly) which currently has an exhaust leak so it sounds amazing. That engine turned the heads of the Hot Rodders and the muscle guys at about 1000 RPM.

 

"Grumpy" leaving the line at Englishtown in his vega,that and about 35 big block dirt modifieds charging into turn 1 at Fonda speedway !

 

The 230 flathead 6 sounds cool with straight 1 7/8s pipes, but nothing sounds like a top fuel engine makin power at 3/4 track....