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I love listening to engine sounds from cars or any other engine. V-8s are my favorite. I know a site where you can listen to all kinds of engine sounds.

www.sounddogs.com
www.corsaperf.com

Nothing sounds better than an classic american big block V8 with headers, big cam, and nice dual exhausts.  

Aside from their F1 car's V10 engine. I love Ferrari's V8 road car engines. They just sound perfectly tuned.
Although theres something to be said for the classic american V8, screw being tuned to sound good, nothing like showing off raw power

Although theres something to be said for the classic american V8, screw being tuned to sound good, nothing like showing off raw power

Actually Craig, the "rough" sound you hear from classic American V8s isn't neccessarily from a lack of proper tuning.  Many classic muscle cars that are restored and have the motors built up a bit have an over sized camshaft in them which gives the car a rough idle sound (my car has a cam which is bigger than stock).  Even if the car is perfectly tuned, it will still have that "uneven" rough idle because of the cam.

Firing order, engine vacuum, camshaft timing, and valve overlap add to that V8 sound also.
A strong BB Chevy with anything over 280

[quote]A strong BB Chevy with anything over 280

Mh, no Leopard 2 sounds on there.
So I had a look into the M1 sounds and I found that thing sounded like an overdimensional hairdryer.

I've attended a number of vintage and modern racing events and have heard F1 cars from the 1960's to today, sports cars from the 1930's to today, etc.  Vintage Ferraris make wonderful noises.  Modern F1 cars make wonderful noises.  Listining to the LeMans winning C5 and C6 Corvettes up close is just glorious.  The biggest suprise for me though is the sound of a race tuned rotary engine.  I've heard it aptly described as a band saw ripping through fiberglass, only maybe a million times louder.  Can't say I have a favorite though, there are simply too many beautiful noises to choose.  Most impressive would have to be the 1960's CanAm cars.  Nothin' quite like 700-1000 horsepower to liven up a room.  And who doesn't love the way a big 'Merikan V8 vibrates your chest, the ground, the hair on your arms.

The wail of V10's and flat-6's (air cooled preferably) is what gets me going.
Or how about a v10 from a certain company known for flat 6's:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... sche+sound

[quote]I've attended a number of vintage and modern racing events and have heard F1 cars from the 1960's to today, sports cars from the 1930's to today, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPBdBIFGNQ
how many of those could do this though?
Watch all the way through. To be fair I dont think theres another F1 car that could do that as the Ferrari's are too deep, the japanese cars are all far to high pitched and the Mclaren's have that horrible buzzsaw sound to them.

Here's the sound that I like.  This is a 1969 Chevy Camaro equipped with a big block (probably a 396...it doesn't actually say).  Anyway, the last 15 or 20 seconds of this video show the car being moved around i a field (probably for a car show).  Anyway, this is the part where you can really hear a built big block sound...and I really like it.  This motor sounds moderately built, probably a 400-450hp street car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DknV9JujviM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPBdBIFGNQ
how many of those could do this though?
Watch all the way through. To be fair I dont think theres another F1 car that could do that as the Ferrari's are too deep, the japanese cars are all far to high pitched and the Mclaren's have that horrible buzzsaw sound to them.

Renault likes to pull that (fairly trivial) stunt.  Just about any car with an electronic throttle control should be able to do that with the right programming.

What interested me in your post was the description of the various team's F1 engines.  I've heard modern F1 engines in person and to me there seemed to be very little audible difference between the engines from the various teams.

I can tell you straight away there is a huge differance in sounds of a modern F1 car.
My recent trip to Silverstone only confirmed previous thoughts on that one.
The Japanese cars, all of them left a horribly high pitched ringing in your ears as they went by. The Mclarens you could hear a grinding or buzzing sound in the engine as they approached us. Ferrari not being there couldn't tell in person, but you can always here from the cockpit cameras how much deeper their engines sound than the others.
It was much tougher to tell with the V10's. but the V8's its been much easier to tell.

Can't whack the sound of a true vintage racer like the Napier Railton.

Even better is the unsilenced version, the Bentley-Napier.

I can't find a vid or sound clip so you'll have to imagine the wonderful noise, smoke & flame - not to mention the smell. 8-)

PS. I'll try to take a video clip at the 2007 Dunsfold Wings & Wheels event in August.