[Closed] Backfiring cars - is this a ‘thing’?

My Cooper S does it from standard, lift off/change gear and it pops and bangs

Mrs DoDs Clubman does it as well and tbh it gives it a bit of character.

The jag F types rather mental if you hear one in the flesh.

I do find it ironic thou that it’s once perceived as the preserve of the antisocial chavvy type but then gets whacked on the jaaag as standard.

My faves the Ferrari 430 on the Miami Vice movie doing blue flames thou.

Christ you lot are old.

Where’s the under 50s forum.

You need Kik.

Theres an app for it.

TBH remember  regularly helping to weld up my mates MK1 RS Turbo exhaust  back in the day they were new and only white unless you were Princess Di.

We were always getting a good bang and flames out of that, so tbh it’s a bit retro IMHO.

Lots of the “classic boy racer” cars around here + a surprising number of M series BMs, AMG Mercs and RS Focus

one of the local meet places is the “wee”Tesco(chased from “big “ Tesco which now has speed bumps)which makes our local paper due to complaints about the noise at nights on a regular basis....

There is also the practice of hitting the Rev limiter, some appear to dip/slip the clutch to achieve the end result. I’m just waiting on a rod through the bonnet moment.....

We live in a quiet residential street that is used as a shortcut by people who think they are clever but don't realise it's actually taking them longer. After 30 years of campaigning we got speed humps and a 20 mph limit last year. At 1.30 in the morning it's no joke when some *rs*h*le blasts through at 60 mph with their exhaust banging and popping, waking everyone at 72 addresses.

I'm a bit conflicted on this one as I'm a massive petrol head and my M135 does make burbles and bangs on the overrun in Sport mode. However, there's a time a place for it.. Namely not in built up areas or later on in the day.

Some absolute * launched his RS3 through a tunnel I was walking through (literally 10ft from Newcastle Police station!) and then lifted off the throttle which basically sounded like a machine gun going off in an enclosed environment with plenty of pedestrians. I was away up the street after him hoping he'd hit a red light as it had just sent my tinnitus into overdrive. It didn't sound good, it was just an extremely loud set of bangs that pissed me off no end after a shite day at work.

We live on a main road in a blanket 20mph zone but it doesn't stop bellends doing 60mph then slamming on their brakes for the sharp bend (next to my house) and then accelerating hard again. Normally get 1 car/year in someones garden. Last time it happened, they cleared two decent sized curbs and missed the paper boy by about 6ft. All four wheels were neigh on snapped off and the dickhead driver asked if I would push them out. *

Am I right in thinking it's a purely 'engineered-in' effect on modern cars? With precision fuel injection, the car doesn't need to burble and bang on the overrun, as it would with an old carburettor set-up.

They might as well just have it as a sound-effect through the stereo as they do with other engine effects, so the petrol heads can get all fizzy in the crotch & pretend their doing a Welsh rally stage, while everyone else sits undisturbed in their gardens....

My car just makes a weird burbling noise at about 2k revs (Seat Leon petrol turbo).  Just sounds like a massive Bong.

It looks and sounds stupid on any modern car not FIA/MSA log booked.

50 years of progression from inefficient dripping carbs to ECU managed direct injection and ignition meaning very little fuel should reach the exhausts to gain maximum road efficiency (rather than outright speed, power and torque of a competition car) and these eejits want to set fire to expensive fuel...

I'd probably still win best backfire with my 1980s motorhome if it came to a competition.

I’d probably still win best backfire with my 1980s motorhome if it came to a competition.

Our 1920s Ford Model A would give it a good run for it's money - I've a selection of blown apart silencers as evidence 😆

Nothing wrong with a bit of flame/pop and crackle on overrun but the AK47 sounding maps that seem to be popular at the moment are the shittest things I've ever heard.

I’m not saying we need more cars/build more roads/kill polar bears, etc.

You sound like a right barrel of laughs.

You sound like a right barrel of laughs.

Because I don't want to kill more polar bears?  Is confused.

We need more Polar bears, not less.  They're truly minty.