Is this the best sounding race car ever?
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Try this (you'll have to save it to your PC) :
Plenty of volume needed for the full effect !
http://homepage.eircom.net/~expatjen/
One of the best clips of an F1 engine available. And compare the speed of the downchanges compared with the BRM
Seen the GT40 clip before, superb !
Oh, and one more for the road : http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?d (Not strictly a race car, but too good to pass by)
Plenty of volume needed for the full effect !
http://homepage.eircom.net/~expatjen/
One of the best clips of an F1 engine available. And compare the speed of the downchanges compared with the BRM
Seen the GT40 clip before, superb !
Oh, and one more for the road : http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?d (Not strictly a race car, but too good to pass by)
Edited by slippydiff on Sunday 1st April 00:17
FourWheelDrift said:
308mate said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Sounds good, but general PH consensus is the BRM V16 from 1949-55 is the best sounding. A 1.5 litre supercharged monster developing 600bhp.
Few samples on here - www.billzilla.org/engread.htm
Few samples on here - www.billzilla.org/engread.htm
Dammit. Thats hard to beat.
I think they were taken at a test at Goodwood, on the Loud pass clip after the car had passed the pits where the recording equipment is you hear it downchanging for turn 1 (Madgwick) then blasting down the next straight through Fordwater. This 2nd straight section with the car going away from the pits sounds just like a modern F1 car.
The recording sounds to me like the one in Nick Mason/Mark Hales book into the red where they tested it at Donnington. The really shrill noise is as the car goes down through the Craner curves. I can't Chiscester Council allowing that much noise at Goodwood!
One of the most amazing cars i've heard was a Brabham BT28 fitted with a supercharged 785cc Cosworth BDJ - It was built by a Cosworth engineer and revved to god knows what. I saw it at Brighton Speed Trials in the eighties when they were allowed to run unsilenced...
Andrewm said:
I can't Chiscester Council allowing that much noise at Goodwood!
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No it is Goodwood, it's from the Sounds of Goodwood CD that Motorsport magazine gave away a couple of years back I have it as well. It's the V16 BRM doing laps at Goodwood along with an ERA, D-Type, 250F, 250GTO and Ferrari 512S on the disc. I'm not sure exactly when the BRM was recorded, could have been the 1950's so no problems with the council. But with the commentary from Simon Taylor and Nick Mason who was doing the driving they are talking about a recent drive so it could have been very recently. And I'm sure it's appeared at the Revival meeting in the last few years at least once.
velocemitch said:
How about this little lot then, for me the carb fed flat 12 on the over run is the best of the bunch. But as someone said about this advert, eat your heart out Honda
[url] http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/x1h[url]
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This brought a tear to my eye! pure magic
GravelBen said:
pib said:
With the turbo Lancia, the engine is so muffled all you hear is a lot of gear whine rather then the engine.
Thats not gear whine, thats the supercharger...
Doah . . . you're right! I guess it's the toothed rubber belt spinning the super charger makes that noise?
I would like to hear an engine with cams driven by gears. My understanding this is not done because of the noise it makes. I'm not sure if any production engines have that.
The noise restrictions at Goodwood are lifted completely for the Revival meeting so noise is not an issue regarding running the BRM V16 at that track. V16s have indeed appeared at the Revival meetings, although they rarely make it to the end of the race.
However, having said that, I am absolutely sure that the V16 track on "Into the Red" was not recorded at Goodwood. All of the cars featured on the CD were recorded at Silverstone during a session specially arranged for the book. True to form, the BRM would not co-operate on the day and an additional session had to be arranged purely to capture the sound of the V16. This additional session took place at Donington.
However, having said that, I am absolutely sure that the V16 track on "Into the Red" was not recorded at Goodwood. All of the cars featured on the CD were recorded at Silverstone during a session specially arranged for the book. True to form, the BRM would not co-operate on the day and an additional session had to be arranged purely to capture the sound of the V16. This additional session took place at Donington.
Eric Mc said:
The noise restrictions at Goodwood are lifted completely for the Revival meeting so noise is not an issue regarding running the BRM V16 at that track. V16s have indeed appeared at the Revival meetings, although they rarely make it to the end of the race.
However, having said that, I am absolutely sure that the V16 track on "Into the Red" was not recorded at Goodwood. All of the cars featured on the CD were recorded at Silverstone during a session specially arranged for the book. True to form, the BRM would not co-operate on the day and an additional session had to be arranged purely to capture the sound of the V16. This additional session took place at Donington.
However, having said that, I am absolutely sure that the V16 track on "Into the Red" was not recorded at Goodwood. All of the cars featured on the CD were recorded at Silverstone during a session specially arranged for the book. True to form, the BRM would not co-operate on the day and an additional session had to be arranged purely to capture the sound of the V16. This additional session took place at Donington.
Goodwood only have a dispensation for unsilenced running for the revival, so testing there has been restricted to 105db for a while, save the test for the revival meeting. I think 4wd is talking about a different recording to the Into the Red CD.
A few years back, I was at the British GP at Silverstone when they had 3 running for a couple of laps - must be some kind of record.. Just wonderful - you could clearly hear every gearchange and blip of the throttle the whole way round the full GP circuit!
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