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Now if they could just work on making those cars quieter. So they don't deafen me when I'm trying to enjoy a nice day with the windows down.
by cglace 9y ago
Now if they could just work on making those cars quieter. So they don't deafen me when I'm trying to enjoy a nice day with the windows down.
- whalesalad 9y agoYou don't buy a 5 liter V8 to be quiet.
- cglace 9y agoI'm the guy in the car over wanting it to be quiet. I'm saying I find those cars extremely annoying.
- asteli 9y agoWe get spoiled a bit by how amazing noise suppression in modern vehicles is. A modern car rolling 60 MPH down the highway makes almost no engine noise, it's all aerodynamic whoosh and tire noise. Pretty impressive for a machine that's creating several thousand tiny explosions per second.
- mtm 9y agoActually, assuming about 2000 RPM at 60 mph in a 4 cylinder car you are getting more like 17 detonations/second
- asteli 9y agoShame on me! Mixed up my units. Note that we haven't accounted for _n_ cylinders either. For a 4 cylinder engine you'd average ~67/second. :)
- merraksh 9y ago2000 / 60 seconds * 4 cylinders ~ 133 detonations/second.
- asteli 9y agoMaybe in a 4cyl 2-stroke! In 4-stroke engines, a cylinder will fire once every other rev.
- loco5niner 9y agoI'm more annoyed by the ridiculous "mufflers" kids seem to think are a good idea.
- komali2 9y agoI think it's posing in the extreme. I recently got an SV650, and no matter what pipe you put on the thing, it's just not going to sound like a Harley or Busa or whatever. Mildly disappointing but then again, if I tried to get it to sound like a bigger bike, I'm kinda just lying. Nothing amuses me more than a riced out camry with a glasshatter pipe hitting high revs and then just kinda putting off the line. All bark no bite.
- loco5niner 9y ago> I think it's posing in the extreme >Nothing amuses me more than a riced out camry with a glasshatter pipe hitting high revs and then just kinda putting off the line. All bark no bite. Yep
- komali2 9y agoshrug you can't always get what you want, man. If he's tearing up and down your local neighborhood street that's one thing, but it's hard to feel sympathy for someone annoyed by a loud car when its out and about among hundreds of other cars. Can't you just roll the window up till he's gone? It's not like it's hard to avoid a loud car.
- cglace 9y agoFirst, what do hundreds of quiet cars have to do with one really annoying muscle car that likes to rev their engine at stop lights to show how cool they are? Second, how do I know that I need to roll my window up when I arrive at that stop light? Third, it takes about 10 seconds to roll all of my windows up. By that time my ears are already ringing. Sorry, I had a car pull up beside me yesterday under a bridge and rev their engine. My ears are still ringing. shrug, guess I can't always can't always get what I want.
- komali2 9y agoIf it's too loud, you can always call in with his plate. Enough reports and he can get ticketed for an illegal muffler. Happened to a buddy of mine back in Texas, and he totally had it coming.
- vlucas 9y agoActually, the stock setup on the 2015-2017 models is pretty tame/quiet. Most of the super loud cars are after market exhaust/mufflers.