www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxw4whvBiA
Sato is a loon! :-) I remember him literally destroying a set of rear intermediates on one run up the hill at the Festival of Speed a few years back. Donuts until you couldn't see anything, up the track with the rears smoking. Stop, egg the crowd on by waving his fists until the air horns and cheering got loud enough and repeat. About 30 times.
Those things really do sound amazing.
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Anyone else fondly remember the sound of the Ford/Lotus Twin Cam unit, particularly in works prepared Escort RS 1800 or 2000 with twin Webers, preferably being driven Roger Clark or Ari Vatanen? Music to my ears!
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Sweetest engine sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCYl3I91aKA
Best sounds at the start...4.30,6.22,8.55, enjoy this sweet Napier Diesel fix..
thanks for an ideal excuse to sooth my ears with sounds of engines that kissed the very air
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Best with sound only, IMO :-)
The dirt-bike impression (single-cyl 4-stroke) is amazing!
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Has anyone got any personal favourites sound wise?
Anything at the Goodwood Revival, frankly. I spend the entire day there slightly weak at the knees.
The Festival Of Speed is good in its own way too, but the Revival does it for me without fail.
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Re the 2-stroke Fodens - I used to live on a hill on a main road where there was a lot of lorry traffic and as a boy I could tell all the different noises and the Fodens were particularly distinctive with their bellowing sound - very loud too, and also because they had (I think) 12 speed gearboxes and the drivers were always changing gear to maintain speed.
Most Fodens, of course, had Gardner diesel engines - only a minority had Foden's own 2-stroke engines (4 or 6 cylinder variants). But one real rarity owned by a local coach firm was a rear-engined Foden luxury coach, complete with the 2-stroke engine. It had wild body styling too - I've discovered since that it was bodied by a firm called Windovers.
The other really distinctive sound we used to hear was a guy who had a Jensen Interceptor who used kickdown to pass slower vehicles going up the hill!
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Re the 2-stroke Fodens - I used to live on a hill on a main road where there was a lot of lorry traffic and as a boy I could tell all the different noises
I liked the industrial sound of the unstoppable Commer TS3 better known as the Double Knocker, (oh-er misses) I believe this pre-dated the similar Foden.
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enjoy this sweet Napier Diesel fix.
You can't beat the Deltics when it comes to locos GB. Putting cars aside for a minute I always liked these too
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-USZJqkeYU
You could hear that throbbing (oo-err) for miles across the countryside on a still summer night.
I'll take my anorak off now!
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It seems that we've hijacked this thread with posts of 2-stroke diesel sounds....
Here's another - Detroit 12V71 V12 supercharged 2-stroke diesel
After the first minute or two of playing about in the yard there's a good ride in the cab...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmytwZnXgjM&feature=related
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hi
one to beat
the vulcan, on reheat on a sharp turn and climb.
that makes your insides quiver
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Car engines - old yank V8's sound best to me:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzTu3yXaK4
Audi straight fives are pretty special.
Anything loud, raw, and dangerous sounding, like this TWR XJS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RM2N_8CfQo
Merlin is obviously the best sounding aero engine.
I once went out for a walk at Derwent reservoir with my brother, we were on the grass in front of the Derwent dam and heard the unmistakeable sound of WW2 aero engines. The sound got louder then all of a sudden the Battle of Britain flight flew over the dam at very low altitude, right over our heads. Words cannot express how incredible that was.
I spoke to a bloke in the visitors centre afterwards and he said it had not been publicised because last time they did, 80000 people turned up and caused traffic chaos for hours..
Edited by Group B on 13/01/2010 at 10:48
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The Rootes TS3 two-stroke horizontally opposed diesel - as fitted to Commers and Karriers - sounds lovely, particularly with the transverse front exhaust box. There's lots of clips on Youtube. It's worth Googling for an explanation of how it works, too, with its three cylinders, six pistons, twin superchargers and rockers turning the crankshaft. All designed as a bus engine more than 50 years ago. They don't use imagination to make engines like that any more.
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They don't use imagination to make engines like that anymore.
If you'd ever worked on the Chieftain tank engines (same configuration as the Foden but MUCH bigger) you'd know why!
Just as an aside, I often hear the comment "They don't make 'em like that any more" when at shows with the pick-up or the old side-valve Harley.
My stock reply.... "They wouldn't dare!"
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