What is the worst sounding car ever??????
Tired NA B6s sounds pretty blasted bad. I'm going to have to go with an NA FC Series 4 with a straight pipe as 'The Worst', though. Or maybe the local tradition of a mid 90s Chevy/ Ford pickup with a low compression small block or 3.8/4.3L V6, and stock manifolds and straight pipes.
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Almost any Honda....it's pretty hard to make one sound good without a turbo in the exhaust. I agree, Harleys sound like **** no matter what. All V8 pickup trucks with any kind of exhaust modification sounds like **** too (maybe it's a redneck southern thing)
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Auto trans '98 sunfire convertible with the muffler removed and replaced with a chrome magnaflow tip, think never ending fart with a hint of exhaust leak.
Doppel, its far more wide spread than the southern states. I have two neighbours where I'm moving from that have jacked, loud v8 trucks and another is just moving in.
Doppel, its far more wide spread than the southern states. I have two neighbours where I'm moving from that have jacked, loud v8 trucks and another is just moving in.
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Does anyone know what makes hondas sound so awful? Like, even the well built ones with intelligent owners that make decent power? They are pretty efficient little engines, what about their design makes them sound so bad?
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Any mid-to-early 90's GM product that had the Quad 4 engine. Not really among GM's worst engines overall, but man was it a thrashy mess. Sounded like someone tossed a bike chain, 8 bolts, 6 nails, and a handful of ball bearings into a blender.
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Actually, I know what the worst-sounding car of all time is: an air-cooled VW with the Type 1 engine and the stock muffler. Beetle / Karmann Ghia / Thing. And this comes from the perspective of somebody who has owned two of them.
We'll start with the exhaust. I have utterly no idea what they were trying to accomplish here, but the damn thing sounds like somebody stuck a pair of tweety-bird whistles into a large porcelain vase, and decided that would be an appropriate device to vent the exhaust gas into. Dogs can hear it from outer space.
Next, there's that enormous squirrel-cage fan driven off the back of the generator. Even when you have the split pulley shimmed exactly to spec, it still makes a sort of "whirr / rattle / whine" noise that's almost indescribable.
The engine case is made from magnesium-impregnated tissue paper, and the cylinders are on the outside of it. So every little lifter tick, piston slap, cam gear whine, and what have you, they all radiate. I'm pretty sure you can hear the oil itself moving through the thing.
Oh, and that valvetrain? The rockers are located seventeen and a half feet away from the cam, coupled to it by pushrods made out of whatever they use to make tuning forks out of, and the mechanical alignment between the heads and the camshaft is governed by a pair of cast-iron accordions on each side. The cylinders themselves grow and shrink so much due to thermal expansion that you adjust the valve clearance with a yardstick. When the engine is cold, the whole car can be driven through the space between the rockers and the tips of the exhaust valves. Cold idle sounds like the entire 18th century Royal Navy firing cannonballs at a harpsichord.
We'll start with the exhaust. I have utterly no idea what they were trying to accomplish here, but the damn thing sounds like somebody stuck a pair of tweety-bird whistles into a large porcelain vase, and decided that would be an appropriate device to vent the exhaust gas into. Dogs can hear it from outer space.
Next, there's that enormous squirrel-cage fan driven off the back of the generator. Even when you have the split pulley shimmed exactly to spec, it still makes a sort of "whirr / rattle / whine" noise that's almost indescribable.
The engine case is made from magnesium-impregnated tissue paper, and the cylinders are on the outside of it. So every little lifter tick, piston slap, cam gear whine, and what have you, they all radiate. I'm pretty sure you can hear the oil itself moving through the thing.
Oh, and that valvetrain? The rockers are located seventeen and a half feet away from the cam, coupled to it by pushrods made out of whatever they use to make tuning forks out of, and the mechanical alignment between the heads and the camshaft is governed by a pair of cast-iron accordions on each side. The cylinders themselves grow and shrink so much due to thermal expansion that you adjust the valve clearance with a yardstick. When the engine is cold, the whole car can be driven through the space between the rockers and the tips of the exhaust valves. Cold idle sounds like the entire 18th century Royal Navy firing cannonballs at a harpsichord.
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