I mean, I run straight pipes already but it just buzzes... =P
Is there like some special muffler I could attach to take the engine sound down an octave or two? =D
~Kujila
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 Aug 25 2005, 4:04 pm
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Ack! Will that just make it buzz more obnoxious? I just want a deeper, more "V8-esque" sound to my jalopy =]
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I'm not sure what it would do. But I heard some kids in school mention how they saw someone with a 4-banger Ford Escort with a coffee can around it's muffler, which made it louder.
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Hehe, well I don't know much about cars or anything, but I don't want to sound louder really, just... sound different ^^
I posted on this car forum place so maybe they can direct me to some 'four-banger' muffler kit or something ^^ Of course, I'll lose respect from everyone in my school if they consider that to be "ricing" the jalopy. I don't want a ginormus muffler >_>;; ~Kujila | |
Loud cars are obnoxious. And trying to make a four-cylinder engine sound "mean" is like trying to remake Patton with Pee-Wee Herman in the title role.
I drive a four-cylinder car, BTW, and as luck would have it, I missed a half-day of work getting a new muffler today (only $70 -- woohoo!). Trust me: if you expect a car to do anything more than get you from point A to point B, you are in for a huge disappointment sooner or later. | |
Get a car with a V-8?
Come on now, don't rice out your car. And don't say "I am not ricing it out, I just want it to sound better" Because what you are wanting to do is the essence of ricing out a car. Making to "look" better, without actualy "being" better. Sound is included. Just like script kiddies, you want visable results from minimal work and effort. You are a car script kiddie, how does that make you feel? Sound is nothing to a car, and means nothing in power. A good example, Mustang -VS- S2000 A mustang is a very loud, and can be V-8. A S2000 is a honda with a 4 cylinder, very quiet. Most S2000s can beat most mustangs any day. Why? The S2000 is a sports car, the mustang is a sports body with a truck engine. | |
look up something called 'glass-packs' - special mufflers or muffler add-ons that change the sound of the muffler output.
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Kujila wrote:
Ack! Will that just make it buzz more obnoxious? I just want a deeper, more "V8-esque" sound to my jalopy =] Something I suggest you don't do! - Cut off the exhaust at the manifold. A mate of mine did this to his little brother's car. Sure - it sounded like a V8 with a big bore. But the car soon screwed over. =) | |
Kujila wrote:
I mean, I run straight pipes already but it just buzzes... =P Unless you're running a lot of pressure out your exhaust, there's not going to be anything for you to make your 4 banger sound any "better". Believe me, 4 bangers aren't meant to sound good - they're meant to be quiet & be used economically - not for racing. =P | |
I am not going to race the bloody thing, I don't even want it to run better because it probably has 10k miles on it before the engine blows. I just don't like the way it buzzes. =P
Jeez.=/ ~Kujila | |
Kujila wrote:
I am not going to race the bloody thing, I don't even want it to run better because it probably has 10k miles on it before the engine blows. I just don't like the way it buzzes. =P As I say, "If you can find a better car, buy it!". | |
Scoobert wrote:
Most S2000s can beat most mustangs any day. Why? The S2000 is a sports car, the mustang is a sports body with a truck engine. Well, to give some credit to REAL V8's (Sorry, Ford - I don't consider anything less than a 5.4 liter to be a V8), Mustangs are slow, ugly cars & without a supercharger they're crap. Now, take a Firebird, Camaro, or a Charger - & you've got your self a V8 that eats 4-cyl's for breakfast, lunch, & dinner for 1/4 of the price of a Honda S2000. Not to mention they look, sound, and feel better. =P | |
Trust me: if you expect a car to do anything more than get you from point A to point B, you are in for a huge disappointment sooner or later. I would like to clarify my statement, lest anyone think I don't appreciate a nice car. What a car can do: * Get you from point A to point B. * Go fast. * Look good. What a car can't do: * Defend itself against predators and the elements. * Repair itself. * Fill the hole in your soul. (As ABBA noted, it takes rock 'n' roll to do that.) | |
Scoobert wrote:
Most S2000s can beat most mustangs any day. Why? The S2000 is a sports car, the mustang is a sports body with a truck engine. Hey now, truck engines can be fast. They just aren't meant to be fast. That's an invalid argument :P Anyhow, I hate Mustangs and I have a keendislike for Hondas. Not because they are bad vehicles, or because they are foreign, but because idiots around here get a Civic and put a racing wing on it and that annoys the hell out of me. With some adjustments to the engine of a truck they can be pretty quick. Maybe not S2000 quick, but I didn't pay that much for my truck either. Outside of that, I agree with everything you said. Oh, Kujila, my friend Chris got one of the glass-pack mufflers Digitalmouse was talking about. In my opinion, it sounded like crap. It did make the sound a little bit deeper, but you roll the window up and it goes away. There's just no replacement for that V8 sound :P | |
Gughunter wrote:
What a car can't do: Right... >.> * Repair itself. That's planned for version 2. * Fill the hole in your soul. (As ABBA noted, it takes rock 'n' roll to do that.) Correct, but the car can play rock 'n' roll music! | |
digitalmouse wrote:
look up something called 'glass-packs' - special mufflers or muffler add-ons that change the sound of the muffler output. that is true i run dual glass packs with 2.5" piping coming from a v6...it sounds deeper, because of the size of the pipe and the packs, as well as the tips the go from 2.5 - 3" now on the firebird (which also has a v6), it has a single pipe 2.5" going into a DynoMax muffler, then porting out with one pipe on each side with 2.5" tips.... but to make a 4 cyl. to sound like a v8.... id say replace the exhaust manifold with a header, and run 2.5" pipe out to a FlowMaster or DynoMax MUFFLER...and not that SpinTec or ricer BS....a true muffler....then keep the same size pipe after it. the basic principle is the smaller the diameter ie 1.25" the louder the sound is, and the higher the dia. ie 4" the hollower it is. i am a car god. i have pics of my t-bird, but my thumbnails are messed up on my site. and who ever said mustangs are slow, you should meet my buddy who has the 5.0 HO motor from the strang stroked to a 331, with gt40 heads, and all the goodies except a SC, or Turbo.....dont get pissed when he whips your s2000 in the 1/4....nothingimported, besides the skyline or supra type, beats 730 bhp.definately not stock imports.... **edit** for those who dont know bhp (breaking horse power) is the amount of horsepower that is measure at the rear wheels. | |
Also, a 4-cyl could NEVER sound even remotely like a V8. For starters, good like trying to run anything larger than 2' piping off of a 4 banger, not enough back pressure - second, not even enough exhaust would fill that large of pipe - which is where that high pitched "waaaaaa" sound comes from when the ricers put those annoying fart cans on the back of their crap cars.
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