Exhaust farty popping noises ?
Discussion
ferrariF50lover said:
Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.
I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.
I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.
I really need to stop making this mistake - it has happened several times this month.
I can understand if you're bouncing it off the rev limiter around a housing area etc.
However, people calling people anti-social and pricks etc. really need to have a word with themselves and not get so uptight. This forum after all was a TVR website if I believe what is to be read - and they were hardly quiet cars! I can only imagine the stick people would have once gotten if they came on here and called people pricks because they liked a good exhaust note.
And, yes! Before anyone spots the flaw in my argument that we're talking 4 pot vs V8 - It really doesn't matter as areas of opinion like this are subjective. Do I like the sound of a Corsa 1.2 NA with a large bore exhaust? No. Do I think they're a prick? No. They like it and that's the main thing for them. Now if they're driving anti-socially fair enough.
Young people without a lot of money strive to be a bit different even if they do similar things,paradoxically
Back in the day when I was just starting driving we did silly stuff to Minis. Wheel spacers ,modified exhausts,”racing” steering wheels , very minor performance tweaks and so on. My sense is that all that nonsense produced zero performance gains but was a naive attempt to look cool.
Which it didn’t.
Still , essentially harmless
Back in the day when I was just starting driving we did silly stuff to Minis. Wheel spacers ,modified exhausts,”racing” steering wheels , very minor performance tweaks and so on. My sense is that all that nonsense produced zero performance gains but was a naive attempt to look cool.
Which it didn’t.
Still , essentially harmless
daemon said:
ferrariF50lover said:
Stu08 said:
What's wrong with rims? I call them alloys, wheels, rims etc.
I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.
Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.
I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.
My apologies gents I won't pipe up next time I will keep my opinion to myself.
And it's me causing pistonheads to be the male version of mumsnet... righto chaps.
AlrightYouns said:
daemon said:
ferrariF50lover said:
Stu08 said:
What's wrong with rims? I call them alloys, wheels, rims etc.
I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.
Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.
I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.
My apologies gents I won't pipe up next time I will keep my opinion to myself.
And it's me causing pistonheads to be the male version of mumsnet... righto chaps.
At 48 i'm far too old to be bothered with whats the current "yoof" or "gangsta" terminology.
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