> I dont know - If you do the exhaust right you can get a nice burble
> out of a turbo too. My saab has like a slightly reduced v8 burble by
> adding a better flowing downpipe and silencer.
You *can* make a turbo car sound nice, but if you put the same effort
into a non-turbo car, it'd sound even nicer ;-) I had it explained to
me once, but I forgot the reasoning, but it was something to do with
the pops from the cylinders being blended by the turbo and it ruins
the harmonics or the angle of the dangle, or whatnot.
> Perhaps the special 101 manifold increases the amount of v8 burble?
Just whack a hole in it!

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Steve Taylor - 21 Jul 2008 15:10 GMT
> You *can* make a turbo car sound nice, but if you put the same effort
> into a non-turbo car, it'd sound even nicer ;-) I had it explained to
> me once, but I forgot the reasoning, but it was something to do with
> the pops from the cylinders being blended by the turbo and it ruins
> the harmonics or the angle of the dangle, or whatnot.
Plus a fair old whack of energy is being pulled back into the inlet from
the outlet- energy lost to nice burbly V8 noises.
Steve
Nige - 22 Jul 2008 08:44 GMT
>> I dont know - If you do the exhaust right you can get a nice burble
>> out of a turbo too. My saab has like a slightly reduced v8 burble by
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>
> Just whack a hole in it!
Like it won't already have one :)

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Steve Taylor - 22 Jul 2008 09:13 GMT
>>> Perhaps the special 101 manifold increases the amount of v8 burble?
>> Just whack a hole in it!
>
> Like it won't already have one :)
No, no, we crack them specially.
Steve
Ian Rawlings - 22 Jul 2008 09:30 GMT
> No, no, we crack them specially.
I always suspected you of having a smoking crack pipe!

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