Hairy Bikers and Other Petrol Heads
- Thread starter Eastsidepilot
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Richard Gawler
Western Thunderer
My neighbour's 23-reg Tiguan has four moulded but blank "exhaust outlets" and the tailpipe is inside, pointing downwards onto the ground. I suppose this could be a VW Audi group thing, not a type approval regulation.
Oz7mm
Western Thunderer
They already do Colin. I was in a friend's car (a VW Golf I think) and commented that there was a lot of engine / exhaust noise, so he turned it off.Just seems an odd and pointless thing to domy old Merc E class had turned down tail pipes behind the rear valence but there was no false tail pipe.
They'll be putting DCC sound chips and speakers in electric cars next
John
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Max M
Western Thunderer
...but it does give the designers more scope for different designs and looks across different trim levels.Just seems an odd and pointless thing to do
I also guess that it works out cheaper to make out of plastic rather than the metal that would be required for a functioning exhaust.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
...a bit like having a jet aircraft with a propeller stuck on the front
Ian@StEnochs
Western Thunderer
Or a steam locomotive with an IC engine inside. ☹️...a bit like having a jet aircraft with a propeller stuck on the front
michael080
Western Thunderer
Porsche's development centre is just at the other side of our village. From time to time, you can hear some interesting sound projects, especially funny if they switch from one setting to another.
Max M
Western Thunderer
er...no, not really...the exhaust are usually at the back....a bit like having a jet aircraft with a propeller stuck on the front
If that were the case then those who put spoilers on their car which do nothing other than add drag should also be worthy of our ridicule?
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Oh yes, do remember the local 'boom boys' turning up at the seafront cruise in Southend with ali duck tails rivetted to the back of the hatch, did make us laugh when you noticed the out of level and alignment ones, all that time and effort when all they needed was a can of octane booster
although all that would have done is burn the valves out !
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Got a few minutes to spare ?....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJ0nIbn_Ts
alastairq
Western Thunderer
My Dellow has a [near-side] side exit exhaust, for its sidevalve engine. [Just in front of the rear wheel]
A lot of the lanes around hereabout are quite narrow, and mostly also designated 'cycling routes'....{GRRRR!]
Now the Dellow is barely 4 foot wide [3 foot 9 inch track]...In fact, my right elbow and shoulder hang out over the side when driving. [Proper driving, not what passes for 'driving' with today's new motormobiles]
The roads themselves are barely 12 foot wide, mostly around 10 foot wide.
When I come up behind cyclists on these lanes, they struggle with the concept of 'pulling over/stopping' to let following traffic go past....
Where I can get the requisite 1.5 metres of space between the Dellow's left side, and the cyclist's right leg, I find I can just about get past, without putting the right side wheels onto what is usually, a very uneven verge. {Something I won't do unless other road users show signs of equal cooperation....This, despite the fact the Dellow was designed primarily for competing in Trials, thus it has most of the major requisites for good off-road capability....Unlike most folks' ideas of what a 'real' sports car is?}
But I try not to overtake with too great a speed differential.
However, some cyclists really do take the 'entitlement' [presumed] thing too far.....and so, when passing, I drop to 1st gear...the blast of the side exit exhaust can probably be felt from 1.5 metres away.........on their legs. Thus far I haven't noted any lycra melting....
Probably melts all the grease on their chains, however....
A lot of the lanes around hereabout are quite narrow, and mostly also designated 'cycling routes'....{GRRRR!]
Now the Dellow is barely 4 foot wide [3 foot 9 inch track]...In fact, my right elbow and shoulder hang out over the side when driving. [Proper driving, not what passes for 'driving' with today's new motormobiles]
The roads themselves are barely 12 foot wide, mostly around 10 foot wide.
When I come up behind cyclists on these lanes, they struggle with the concept of 'pulling over/stopping' to let following traffic go past....
Where I can get the requisite 1.5 metres of space between the Dellow's left side, and the cyclist's right leg, I find I can just about get past, without putting the right side wheels onto what is usually, a very uneven verge. {Something I won't do unless other road users show signs of equal cooperation....This, despite the fact the Dellow was designed primarily for competing in Trials, thus it has most of the major requisites for good off-road capability....Unlike most folks' ideas of what a 'real' sports car is?}
But I try not to overtake with too great a speed differential.
However, some cyclists really do take the 'entitlement' [presumed] thing too far.....and so, when passing, I drop to 1st gear...the blast of the side exit exhaust can probably be felt from 1.5 metres away.........on their legs. Thus far I haven't noted any lycra melting....
Probably melts all the grease on their chains, however....
Malcolmcelyn
Active Member
Wow! What a noise. 200mph back in the day must have been butt-clenching!Got a few minutes to spare ?....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJ0nIbn_Ts
I remember one of those. About 1949/50. I was about 8/9 year old and we went to New Brighton on holiday. In the fair on the sea front was a ride on train. It had what looked like a proper engine but it smelt like my granddads shed and sounded like a car. It was explained to me that it was a car or a tractor engine running on paraffin.
Not been back since, have I missed anything?
Regards
Allen
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
I'll settle for about 130 on a ' 89 Duke 900ss, the M1 at 2.30 am in the early 90's was fairly quite in those days compared with today