Are you satisfied with the way your car sound?

[Benbay001]

Just wondering.

Also what's the car, how many cylinders and what noise enhancing work have you had done to it?

[kambites]

Mine sounds complete rubbish.

Noise has never been high up my list of priorities. Although I do wish it was a bit quieter; one of these days I'll get 'round to taking off the "sports exhaust" that the previous owner put on and fitting an OEM one.

[BRMMA]

The Boxster sounds pretty decent, especially since i had the OEM sports exhaust retrofitted

The Scirrocco sounds awful, but then it's a 4 pot diesel so it was always going to

I want a V8 next though, the noise X63 Mercs and latest V8 Jags make is just awesome

[CraigyMc]

kambites said:

Mine sounds complete rubbish.

Noise has never been high up my list of priorities. Although I do wish it was a bit quieter; one of these days I'll get 'round to taking off the "sports exhaust" that the previous owner put on and fitting an OEM one.

The OEM Elise S2 exhaust weighs a ton.
You'd be better off replacing it with a lighter aftermarket one (assuming you can find one suitably quiet), wouldn't you?

C

[CraigyMc]

Mine is a 4-pot diesel. It sounds ugly. Say no more.

C

[Hoofy]

4 cylinder dull box. With a mild steel exhaust guaranteed to rust within 2 months. It was quiet at first but now sounds bigger than the engine it's attached to (no holes in the exhaust, though). Older Golfs do have a certain deeper exhaust sound to them, I've always noticed.

[Codswallop]

Very happy with the way my car sounds. A stainless exhaust connected to a narrow angle V5 means it sounds reminiscent of an old ur-quattro (minus the turbo chatter sadly), with an offbeat warble and some pops and crackles on the overrun.

[DaveZT260]

MG ZT 260 4.6L V8 with XPowers

No sound is better that that..,

[paulmoonraker]

Impreza STi - complete exhaust system. Loud with loads of pops and bangs.

Cayman S - standard. Sounds great when driving hard, and silence when going slow. Perfect.

[DoubleSix]

Hell yes, BMW straight six with Performance exhaust and intake - touring car tastic!!

I miss the Porker growl though...

For me sound is very important in a car.

[KB_S1]

Classic Impreza turbo with full system.
Did sound great (imo) with rumbles, pops and snorts.
The Stainless steel exhaust has split around the weld between backbox and pipe though so it has an annoying farty rasp just now at anything over 3500rpm.
Just need to get a few days where I don't need the car to have it fixed.

[Blib]

Masser 4200 - standard exhaust. Sounds better to the passer by than to the driver. Unless I'm 'proceeding' through a tunnel with the windows down.

Hawk Stratos -Alfa V6 - Mental. A tremendous rasp. I need earphones to hear the instructions of the sat-nav.

[kambites]

CraigyMc said:

The OEM Elise S2 exhaust weighs a ton.
You'd be better off replacing it with a lighter aftermarket one (assuming you can find one suitably quiet), wouldn't you?

C

Possibly, but the active valve in the OEM exhaust appeals, since it's meant to be very quiet at low revs but sound a bit less like a sewing machine once the revs pick up.

[Captain Muppet]

The Elise exhaust pops on the over-run, which I like but am sometimes ashamed by. Sounds ace going up through the gears, but too loud on motorways. I'd prefer an OEM exhaust, but not enough to pay for one.

My MX5 has a very quiet exhaust, but I love the sound of it as I can hear the noises the turbo makes.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

///M straight 6

[Baryonyx]

Codswallop said:

Very happy with the way my car sounds. A stainless exhaust connected to a narrow angle V5 means it sounds reminiscent of an old ur-quattro (minus the turbo chatter sadly), with an offbeat warble and some pops and crackles on the overrun.

That sounds awesome, what do you drive?

As for me, yes I'm happy with the sound of my car. Naturally aspirated Subaru Boxer 4 with a custom made exhaust on it. Loud, but not excessively so, but importantly not strangled by a turbo so you get that very 'direct' sound. My favourite noise is tootling along in second gear at a burble before charging up through second and third for that classic offbeat rumble.

[XJ40]

I've a nice S6 in the Jag but it's a bit subdued I have to say.

There two lots of silencers on each side so four in total, I'm planning to delete a couple. AJ6 Engineering sell a pair of straight through subtitute pipes so may well nail a set of those on, should let a bit more growl out.

When I bought this one I specifically looked for a decent pre-'92 so I didn't have to run a cat. The early cars do like a good rust so are getting quite rare now, especially in manual form!

[g3org3y]

Old school BMW straight siz (M20 2.5, no cats). Sounds brilliant (esp with the roof down) although back box is starting to blow a little so a touch boomy at 60-65mph.

[Chicane-UK]

My Corrado VR6 I think needs a K&N panel filter.. I'd like a bit more induction growl than standard, but when I tried a BMC CDA I found it far too loud - fun for the occasional blast, but a bit too attention grabbing to use all the time.

The Skoda Octavia VRS.. sounds fine I guess! Not too worried about increasing the noise of that.

[NotDave]

Saab 9-3 vector sport TID - tick over fking wky diesel
Being given a bootful, turbo wooshyness and grunty exhaust note
- ok

Mondeo mk3 1800 petrol - cement mixer

Austin 1300 mkii - raspy, popping burblyness

Morris Minor 1000 - awesome, properly awesome

ETA previous:

E36 2litre straight six - awesome when booted

200sx with full system, 4branch, decat, BOV and HKS mushroom - loud, angry but fking immense

MG ZR with Janspeed 4 branch & custom sports system, with pipercross viper kit, larger TB & custom in-feed - loud, deep, burbly... Until you thraped it... Then screamed and sounded better the harder you drove it. Pops, bangs, over-run and when hot exhaust you got properly loud cracks/bangs

Edited by NotDave on Monday 16th July 09:46