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America’s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies: The rise of fake engine noise
Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2015 | Drew Harwell

Posted on 01/21/2015 1:07:39 PM PST by Second Amendment First

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I'll stick with the 6.0 L LS2 V8 in the SUV and the 6.8 L V10 in the truck.

I'm done with new vehicles, don't want or need the gadgets or govt spy equip.

1 posted on 01/21/2015 1:07:39 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Just like our Prez.


2 posted on 01/21/2015 1:10:10 PM PST by gaijin
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What? You don’t like the $70K full size new truck? I guess that we will continue to by $3K beaters. Besides, I can park anywhere.


3 posted on 01/21/2015 1:11:03 PM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: Second Amendment First

No playing cards in the spokes tho


4 posted on 01/21/2015 1:12:58 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: Second Amendment First

Nothing really new. Cherry Bombs and such have been used to enhance exhaust noise for a great many years.


5 posted on 01/21/2015 1:13:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Is nothing genuine anymore? Our whole world is mirage and fabrication.


6 posted on 01/21/2015 1:13:45 PM PST by RatRipper
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Growl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2AzOL25s60


7 posted on 01/21/2015 1:15:01 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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Enhancing existing engine roar with pipes is one thing, running fake sounds through the speakers is gay.


8 posted on 01/21/2015 1:15:40 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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Is nothing genuine anymore? Our whole world is mirage and fabrication.

From the White Hut on down.

9 posted on 01/21/2015 1:16:33 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Much violence and crime can be explained by the Bell Curve (Bing it))
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” don’t want or need the gadgets or govt spy equip. “

A guy I know owns a car dealership, and he told that 90% who want their gadgets disconnected are in the military.

LOL


10 posted on 01/21/2015 1:17:18 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Graybeard58; RatRipper

11 posted on 01/21/2015 1:18:10 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Mrs. Lesh’s Subprime Barney Cars. Back-stopped every year, by Extortion-Care April 15th.


12 posted on 01/21/2015 1:18:14 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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I went to high school with a guy who could make his truck backfire anytime he wanted. He used to make a lot of crowds duck.


13 posted on 01/21/2015 1:18:38 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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I had lots of fun with straight pipes in the 70s.

Although not a speedster some of the best fun was a Datsun 510 wagon. I could turn the ignition off with the engine in gear, fill the exhaust system with fumes, and restart with a boom and a mighty fine flare.

Speakers worth more than whole car but that’s another story. Underdash cassette decks ROCKED!!


14 posted on 01/21/2015 1:18:52 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: VerySadAmerican

See my #13


15 posted on 01/21/2015 1:19:30 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Sparkplugs in the exhaust goes way back to the 50s.lol


16 posted on 01/21/2015 1:19:43 PM PST by easternsky
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Not really the same. This is about adding resonators, etc, to change the actual exhaust note as heard inside the car, as well as actually piping fake engine sounds through the car stereo. When you put a Cherry Bomb in a car you heard the same sound as everyone else around you (and boy did they hear it).


17 posted on 01/21/2015 1:21:14 PM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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The sound is also adjusted depending on the size of your appendage - the smaller the louder.


18 posted on 01/21/2015 1:21:54 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Second Amendment First

Max's blower was a prop spun by an electric motor.

19 posted on 01/21/2015 1:22:38 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Many years ago (early nineties) I read an obscure scientific paper that analyzed of the acoustics of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine that concluded that the engine was purposely mis-designed in order to emit a large amount of energy in the the form of odd acoustic harmonics, thus giving it the characteristic ‘sound’.


20 posted on 01/21/2015 1:23:48 PM PST by SpaceBar
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