[Closed] What's your view; BEST ENGINE SOUND?

The 787B earlier gets my vote, heard one at Goodwood and it's such a strange and vicious sound it's unreal!

Not a fan of really loud engines like Dragsters and the 20K F1 engines really, too hard to hear what's going on.

This on the other hand I could listen to all day:

Napier Deltic Diesel at full chat.
Alfa v6 (the proper one, not the rebadged Holden junk).
Lancia Delta S4.
Russian BTRs

I'll put these two forward....

Jesus this forums is turd at embedding videos.

not all of us were wrong about top fuel 😉

can always tell a n00b at the pod... trying to get nice close up photos of the exhaust flames... the burnout is exciting, then they totally c**p themselves and get the shakiest photo ever and nearly drop the camera 🙂

that was me on either the first sub 5s run or the first 300kmh run on UK soil (or both) forget which. that was a while back.

I love the [i]impact[/i] of a top fuel but the sound itself is rubbish. Bolts in a spindryer then raaarrrr and it's done. OK, it vibrates your soul while it's happening but it's like stopping and listening to Kerry King's actual guitar tone.

Also,

Klunk - Member

you can feel the sound waves hit you !!!!

Yes- that's how you hear 😆

Original Mini 1000 or TVR Griffith.

1) Rolls Royce Merlin

but as I can't afford one of those but I may one day be able to afford one of these,
2) Ford Mustang GT 2015 5.0 V8

Rolls Royce Griffon

This has got to be up there as one of the best sounding engines, none of your turbo'd V6 crap...

I loved the sound from this before it fell over.

2500bhp from a big block supercharged Hemi V8. Brutal.

Actually thinking about it, it's quite a similar engine note to the Bullitt Mustang, just angrier. No bloody turbos!

Pretty much anything V12 Ferrari for me. However the 6.3 in the FXX certainly left an impression on me after hearing it at Goodwood - glorious sounding thing! Nearly 800 horses at 8500rpm.. savage

Another shout for Ferrari v12

Love a rally Escort coming down a forest stage and you hear it miles away

I do appreciate a good Deltic

For me a racing two stroke single ~riiinnnnggg ding ding ding

Honda rc166

Big ducati on termigoni's

A good old 1980's ring, ding,ding,ding 2 stroke

It's not all about the volume

As a bike racing fan I used to get told that I'd heard nothing until I heard a MV Augusta.After hearing one in the paddock at Stafford the other year I understood why people loved the noise they made. 😀

I've always thought the 3 cylinder 675 Triumphs make the best sound in the modern era,but MV contested the Supersport race at the TT the other year & ran a loud but beautiful sounding pipe.You could never run something so loud at a BSB round as it would fail scrutineering... 🙁

I've been very lucky. The best have been H-16 brm followed by 27 litre zeppelin engined special followed by Ford's own gt40.

My Bsa A10 makes a lovely noise as well. 360 degree crank.

Probably one of my favourite ever sounds and one that i miss on my local rally now rule changes stopped him competing 🙁

Seconded

A Vulcan? Naa.
How about 4 Vulcans scrambling at RAF Finningley in September 1977 during the Queens Silver Jubilee Airshow.

A Merlin engine or multiples thereof.
A 500cc MV Agusta like what Ago used to ride.

Any LS 1 with loud pipes, any Harley Davidson too. I know they aint the best bikes but they are loud.

When I was seven, this would have beaten everything posted so far: [url= http://http://www.turbospoke.com ]Turbo Spoke[/url]

Metro 6R4 - 2.5l international

(Preferably heard in the middle of the night over Otterburn)

Lexus lfa. Sounds like a f1 car. A real one without hybrid turbos...

This makes me giggle when it gets on song..

Now I like the 6R4 as a car, but not convinced on the sound...

Had this little clip on my hard drive for quite a few years

Hmmm, might have to get my 916 back on the road!

Marge - Member
Metro 6R4 - 2.5l international

(Preferably heard in the middle of the night over Otterburn)

And another from me.. Alfa 1300GT Junior.. because I owned one.. and I LOVE them.

500cc 2-stroke screamer engine
Any large capacity twin with open pipes.
V10 F1 engine (somewhere on YouTube there's a video of one at good wood playing God Save the Queen)
I'd love to have heard /watched a Saturn 5 launch as well.

Yamaha RD350LC with micron exhausts.

About 4 years ago, i was stuck in traffic on northern section of M25 in one of the two tunnels up there in my red Berlingo van. There were about 16 high value sports cars including a beautiful Ferrari next to me (couldn't tell you model but one of the recent ones with switches on wheel), but my mate sat in passenger seat put window down and jokingly tried to swap my red van for red Ferrari, unsurprisingly it was declined, but not before the driver really gave the accelerator some right foot in the tunnel, sounded like Valhalla!

As the traffic finally started moving, my mate asked me if i knew who it was driving it, i said i had no idea and he told me it was Nick Mason

I give you the Commer 2 stoke, 3 cylinder, 6 piston, supercharged diesel engine..

This:

NO NO NO!

I know it has been done but surely it begins and ends with:

A Velocette Venom 500 with high compression piston, GP carb, flat cam followers, unbaffled reverse cone mega, and tuned by Geof Dodkin, being run up and down its powerband through a narrow winding road in a Highland glen.

No helmets in those days, so it was easier to appreciate real music. Wish I still had it. 🙂