How should they sound when....
How should they sound when....
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al bell500

Original Poster:

114 posts

271 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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you start them up cold?
Want you to be very descriptive now lads and lasses.
If nobody mentions the word diesel, i`m in trouble!

Al

markys

620 posts

279 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Mines like a bag of spanners.

GCerbera

5,161 posts

273 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Heaven

SXS 

2,068 posts

262 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Check my profile: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0&memberId=32375

a sound clip will load in the background and then you will hear what she sounds like...

Best words to describe it...

"Hell on fire!", just wished there was a little more induction noise like on the GT...

>> Edited by SXS  on Wednesday 12th May 17:01

al bell500

Original Poster:

114 posts

271 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Oh dear.
Did`nt see the word diesel but i spose a bag of spanners is close.
Bit of a worry really.
Maybe i just need to get used to it not sounding sweet like the chim did when its cold.

Mildyworried Al

Pies

13,116 posts

278 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Yours sounded just like the rest do when cold like a bag of spanners

SXS 

2,068 posts

262 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Rover V8 cant be faulted can it... beautiful at idle, beautiful in motion...

Cerbera V8's dont all sound the same at startup though, some sound very smooth and only slight ticking until the oil warms up... others like a tractor... the first cerbie 4.2's were real beasts when it came to first start engine noise... someone got a sound file of that?

GCerbera, maybe a page of just engine sounds should be up on the TCR site... everyones got a different note... will be a nice feature... ????

TimW

3,848 posts

269 months

suffolkfox

458 posts

275 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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Al
4.2 with original clatter cams - bag of spanners, with lumpy bits, and the odd bit of off-cut 4x2 added for that random off line pause between rattles as the bag is shaken. Oh, and very occassionally a slight wobble until one of the cylinders decides to join the rest of the crew for a scream across the countryside.

All of the sound effects on here sound far too healthy to me. Once its warmed up, it settles down to only sound like two siamesed Ford Cortina engines planted in the engine bay, when at every set of traffic lights your'e trying to look . If you are really worried, next time your at a meet, ask someone. But believe me, they never, ever, ever will sound as smooth as the Rover V8, but hell do they fly.

All joking aside, I have been told by an Indi I trust that if it ever comes back from a service very quiet, be worried, as it can mean the tappet gaps are too tight, and this is more of a worry than noisy. Happy driving

BrianTheYank

7,585 posts

272 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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[quote=SXS ]Check my profile: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0&memberId=32375 [/quote]

Lovely, i really need to get myself over to blighty sometime and see me some TVR.

FourWheelDrift

91,767 posts

306 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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SXS said:
Check my profile: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0&memberId=32375

a sound clip will load in the background and then you will hear what she sounds like...


Just so you know it doesn't work on Mozilla Firefox. IE's OK though

kojak69

4,547 posts

275 months

Wednesday 12th May 2004
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suffolkfox said:



All joking aside, I have been told by an Indi I trust that if it ever comes back from a service very quiet, be worried, as it can mean the tappet gaps are too tight, and this is more of a worry than noisy. Happy driving


Especially when cold. Its better to sound slightly 'tappety'.

al bell500

Original Poster:

114 posts

271 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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Big phew!
Thanks one and all.
I had been assured that it was perfectly normal but it did make me wonder a little(a lot actually).
Ok so my neighbours can continue to scoff at my shiny diesel car.Tonight i`m gonna let her warm up on the drive as per normal but instead of driving off when warm, i`ll just sit there for a further 10/15 mins and let her pop and bang as pay back!
I`ve had the car since friday and managed to set off 6 car alarms with me pops. Makes me p--s me pants with laughter.

Relieved Al:-)

RUSSELLM

6,002 posts

269 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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TimW said:
There is a cold start sound..
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/tvr-cerbera/sounds/coldstart.wav

A leaving garage start..
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/tvr-cerbera/sounds/leave_garage.wav


Are these definately from a V8 cerbera ?

cos mine or anyone I've heard at meets, sounds nothing like it, apart from the griffs & chims that is

Would agree with the diesel comment, for about two minutes

rich25

282 posts

264 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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i would describe it as 'agricultural' on start up for about ten mins or so. Then (when being driven properly) it sounds like someone is literally tearing the air apart in front of the car, before my Lancaster bomber rear-gunner guards the boot on the let-off!

al bell500

Original Poster:

114 posts

271 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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Rich,
Now that`s what i call a description.
Superb mate:-)

Al

SXS 

2,068 posts

262 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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"Lancaster bomber" - an awesome metaphor.... but damn, you ever heard those things go over your head about 5000 feet or so... totally exhilirating!

sportie

561 posts

273 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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The sound clips on here are from the exhaust......

The engine sounds much more like a diesel untill warm

SXS 

2,068 posts

262 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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Not true about my recording, as you will hear the ratio of 50/50, from ignition pull to a few revs then switch off. I stood on the side of the car, litterally in the middle about 6 feet away, and using a Sony DV camcorder recorded the sound at 16bit 48khz in stereo.
The fact you have a sports exhaust system does make a difference to the overall engine sound too... god knows if its the fact you've got free'er flowing gas or what...

RUSSELLM

6,002 posts

269 months

Thursday 13th May 2004
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I think we're on about the sound, when your sat in the car,

I don't know about anyone else, but I can only hear the engine clattering, not the exhaust note, which i'd imagine is going away from the car

It would be nice to hear a recording from inside the car, cold morning, windows & doors shut,

I'll bet it's not all that impressive