Motor sounds...

[arts]

And because you absolutely cannot have too much Detroit 2-stroke sound:

As one of the comments said: "...never heard a vehicle that's so slow, sound so fast...

Regards,
Gordon.

The sound of a 2-stroke Diesel is my favourite engine sound, and that truck in the video is the same model that I actually learned to drive on, a 50's GM twin-stick Detroit.
I took a boot around the back roads in my buddy's old farm truck (same machine) a while back. Boy, I'd forgotten how loud those damned things are and what a lot of work they are to handle. I was pretty pooped (and deaf..) by the time I got back. What a blast!

Here's an old pic of me with a piston from my specialty, the Fairbanks Morse 38D 8 1/8. I kept it as a souvenir when the shop closed up. They purr like the worlds most content pussycat. Valves? We don't need no stinkin' valves!

 

[Eywadude]

Those Audis are my favourite sounding inline 5 engine. I always thought it would be interesting to have one. Sadly, the prices for those cars (like almost everything now) are getting higher and higher by the year it seems.

 

[Eywadude]

Perhaps not at idle, but have you ever noticed how a turbo'ed slant six sounds like a Cummins diesel?

 

[arts]

Perhaps not at idle, but have you ever noticed how a turbo'ed slant six sounds like a Cummins diesel?

All of my slant sixes sounded like diesels; a long-stroke motor with sloppy valves will clatter their way into your heart

 

[Eywadude]

All of my slant sixes sounded like diesels; a long-stroke motor with sloppy valves will clatter their way into your heart

Got out that feeler gauge and set that valve lash! Seems like you own/owned all pre-'81, pre-hydraulic lifter slants.

 

[arts]

Got out that feeler gauge and set that valve lash! Seems like you own/owned all pre-'81, pre-hydraulic lifter slants.

Yep, they all had solids. I had that procedure down to a science, but it was still a pain in the a**, and never really helped much. Not for very long at least. Think I've still got a spare cover gasket somewhere. I've got guitar cases that are shorter than the box that those gaskets came in....

When I was in my teens my buddy's grandfather taught me the proper (and best) way to do it; drop the idle to as low as it would go (retarding the timing a bunch often helped), then pull the valve cover and do the adjustments while it's running. Once you've got the sequence, it's a piece of cake. Other than some old British singles, I've never seen an engine that could idle as low as the Liberace, haha!

 

[Mr Boochie]

 

[Eywadude]

I likes me some thumpers. I really like the sound of the exhaust on this little Kawasaki Estrella 250.

 

[Bill S]

Motorboating, now that's a sound!

 

[arts]

If you like thumpers, you'd enjoy the only one I kept; Matchless G80 TCS Typhoon. She ain't pleasant on cold mornings...

 

[Mr Boochie]

I do miss the sounds of my old Honda CR250 and 500.

 

[Eywadude]

One of my favourite ratty altered wheelbase "gasser" builds. If you watch/listen to only one video, watch the last one.

 

[RickeyM]

I'm Ford car guy so. Paitiently waiting for a break in the traffic to pull out, like a predator waiting to pounce. Pulling out, then at the 50 second mark.