by Tom Woods <tomarse_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 21, 2008 at 06:45 AM
On 21 Jul, 12:07, EMB <emb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ian Rawlings wrote:
> > Well, a turbo on the exhaust can muffle the exhaust note, I've heard a
> > V8 without a turbo and the same v8 with a turbo fitted afterwards and
> > it certainly sounded better without the turbo. The Lotus Esprit V8
> > has twin turbos and doesn't sound as good as a turboless V8 too.
> > Still sounds nice though!
>
> Turbo = "rotary muffler". The gentleman who bought my last racecar
> (sans engine) fitted a turbocharged Chev V8 in place of the naturally
> aspirated V8 I had used. When I drove it after this most of the
> adrenalin rush had disappeared along with the exhaust note despite it
> being significantly quicker.
I dont know - If you do the exhaust right you can get a nice burble
out of a turbo too. My saab has like a slightly reduced v8 burble by
adding a better flowing downpipe and silencer.
On the saab the burble is down to the manifold layout - Its an unequal
length one to start with and changing it to an equal length one seems
to remove the burble (though increases power i believe).
Perhaps the special 101 manifold increases the amount of v8 burble?
