Thanks peaslaker
It is done by 'remapping' so the engine dumps fuel into a hot exhaust. It ****s the exhaust and impairs the car's overall performance.
An office colleague of mine (who understood these things) used to charge the local chavs £150 a pop to do it for them. Nice little sideline for 60-90 minutes work.
There's a few around here but V8's with stupid loud exhausts seem to be the new trend, I regularly see two black & one silver Merc, two black Audi's & two older Jags booting it around the town - they can't be getting much more than single figure mpg the way they're being driven.
There’s a local crap fiesta going round with some sort of tune and a crap exhaust that seems to mimic shot gun bangs at all hours.
There’s a difference between a bit of over run crackle and actual bangs. Caused quite an annoyance lately.
My 450bhp V8 doesn't do it
It does drop a tiny bit of fuel into the exhaust on downshifts though to make it sound like you are an awesome driver, which I'm not. Sounds nice though
*edit - DP
Nuffin new, my mates Severn Valley Motorsport Escort RS Turbo used to spit flames out the exhaust too. Proper rad shit an all that
That was because it happened whilst making the car faster. Modern cars don’t need that kind of tuning to go faster. Which means the bangs and pops are programmed in to the ecu by an old person and are therefore not cool unlike you mates RS turbonutterbast@rd.
It scares my dogs so for that reason the trend can f.r.o.
And yes, as a youth, me and my mates went through a stage of inappropriately exhaust'd crap cars so I can relate on some level, but these were just farty big bores and not likely to give old folk and animals a heart attack.
My issue with it isn’t the pops and bangs necessarily, it’s more that it’s usually on a 1.2 Seat Ibiza that sounds rubbish
rickon
Full MemberTHIS.
It seems to be the thing for teens to do in Peebles, get an awful car, slap a big window banner on it saying ‘VAUXHALL’ or something, put a baked bean can exhaust on it so you can hear that terrible 90bhp 3-cylinder engine.
Oh, and slam it by cutting the coils so it bounces around on the road.
This is coming from someone who does own a 350bhp car that is a bit loud, and does pop on some downshifts.
just as annoying on a powerful car as on a 1.2 clio imo. More so sometimes, as the drivers are often old enough to know better.
There's one such peenarse up the road from me with a C63s mapped to do this. Utter utter prick. He drives up and down the high street 'impressing' people by purposely blipping the throttle, making it go "bang bang-bang-bang" as he goes past.
The irony is that the car sounded great when he got it, really mean low V8 rumble. Now it sounds like the engines ****ed.
Now, if they could map them to sound like the 2011 EBD Renault engined f1 cars I might be interested...