Yank tank

[cajun]

It seems that American V8's have a different accent. I don't claim exhaustive knowledge but I do remember my dad's 1973 Mustang returning home at night when I was a kid (how could I forget it was the signal to run to bed and pretend to have been long dead!) and other yank tanks seem to purr the same way. Blasphemy perhaps but I maybe even prefer that sound the satanic Spitfire growl of the Chim 450 I've got outside.

Is there anything in this, or am I tripping?

[bazza2000]

It could be true, I also am no expert, Steve might be able to help us out on this one, but I understand it is all to do with the crank or to put it another way, the amount of time that passes or the crank has to rotate before another cylinder fires. I think it might be called "Crank Offset" A Ferrari V8 sounds totally different to a Rover V8 also you may have noticed.

[cajun]

Sure does. So it's a yank tank crank thing then?

[apache]

If I didn't like yank tanks I could say ''it's a w**k yank tank crank thing'' then