Wedge/SEAC V Skyline

[Waynester]

Now i'm not much of a Jap car fan, so knowledge is limited, but whilst out for a quick blast in my 450SEAC i came up behind a Skyline... which i think was an R33.
Anyway, i floored my car and went past but he stayed nailed to my 'fancy wing'

I know these things can be tuned to extraordinary levels so the performance didn't really surprise me, but what did was the sound! I have a sport JP exhaust on my Wedge but this Skyline drowned it out! I followed behind going into Hatfield tunnel whereby he proceeded to make noises like a cannon going off...bang bang bang on the overrun. Anti-lag? It was like he was switching off the ignition and banging the fuel off in the exhaust.

The tailpipe was big, so i'm assuming he had a drainpipe for an exhaust. I'm curious as to how a 2.6L straight six + turbo makes so much more noise over a 4.5L V8?
Must have been a straight through system!

[rev-erend]

No need for a silencer with a turbo .. as they work best with zero back pressure.

It's actually lean unburnt fuel that creates pops and crackles.. typically produced when you back off the throttle.. fuel in small quanties in still fed into the engine to give better driving charistics.

[combine]

Waynester said:

Now i'm not much of a Jap car fan, so knowledge is limited, but whilst out for a quick blast in my 450SEAC i came up behind a Skyline... which i think was an R33.
Anyway, i floored my car and went past but he stayed nailed to my 'fancy wing'

I know these things can be tuned to extraordinary levels so the performance didn't really surprise me, but what did was the sound! I have a sport JP exhaust on my Wedge but this Skyline drowned it out! I followed behind going into Hatfield tunnel whereby he proceeded to make noises like a cannon going off...bang bang bang on the overrun. Anti-lag? It was like he was switching off the ignition and banging the fuel off in the exhaust.

The tailpipe was big, so i'm assuming he had a drainpipe for an exhaust. I'm curious as to how a 2.6L straight six + turbo makes so much more noise over a 4.5L V8?
Must have been a straight through system!

Your flapper should make a hell of a crackle and pop , to make it even better sleeve the silencer Wayne .

[grahamw48]

Let's be honest, would you really want to look like a saddo superchav though, regardless of the noise ?

There's a big difference between a quality Hi-Fi and 5,000 watts of horrible boom box too.

[rev-erend]

Wayne - leaving you silencer as it is..

When you let the pub the other month - it sounded fantastic

Just like a SEAC should.

[Waynester]

My exhaust will indeed be staying 'as is' i'm more than happy with the noise.
Feel the quality, not the quantity.. Hold on, maybe that should be 'hear'



Maybe i'm getting old as the Skyline was just to fekking loud!

[eesbad]

Don't forget that you can never know exactly how good your car sounds until you are following it... Preferably not with the new owner driving

[grahamw48]

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[pwd95]

Those Jap machines can be tuned to destroy RV8 engined TVR's, unless you've had the SC Power treatment. Which balances things out in out favour if you want to compare 'buck for buck'.

[JVaughan]

raced one down the A303 one night.... he came out of the services, I was doing 80 as I passed him... he accelerated and left me for dead in less than 300 meters past the exit slip road ... I was in the 400SE