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So I got pretty bored today before work...
I've been thinking... people always give us flack for our cars sounding "ricey" or like imports... I realize that most souped up imports are either I4's I6's or V6s, and most fast American cars are V8s. Our cars are in fact V6s, and I think the fact people think our cars sound ricey is due to the fact that most other V6 cars that have been worked on are imports. I have short tube headers and a carsound cat and 3" catback to a summit turbo muffler and I know my car sounds more like an import than a muscle car, but it's because it's a v6.
Also, IMO Flowmaster sucks on a V6. The harmonization that a V8 engine has is not present in a V6 and that is why the resulting resonated sound out of the 80-series sounds like crap. Our engines are noisy by nature as they lack the harmony produced by a V8's A v8 has an even number of firings per rotation (four, since a firing only happens every other time the piston reaches the top of the cylinder), whereas a V6 has an odd number, which doesn't produce acoustic harmony.
Just an idea I've been thinking about for a while. I personally would rather have a muffler that cancels out the high pitched noise instead of something like a flowmaster that uses harmonics and whatnot to cancel certain sounds out. Turbo mufflers ftw
I've been thinking... people always give us flack for our cars sounding "ricey" or like imports... I realize that most souped up imports are either I4's I6's or V6s, and most fast American cars are V8s. Our cars are in fact V6s, and I think the fact people think our cars sound ricey is due to the fact that most other V6 cars that have been worked on are imports. I have short tube headers and a carsound cat and 3" catback to a summit turbo muffler and I know my car sounds more like an import than a muscle car, but it's because it's a v6.
Also, IMO Flowmaster sucks on a V6. The harmonization that a V8 engine has is not present in a V6 and that is why the resulting resonated sound out of the 80-series sounds like crap. Our engines are noisy by nature as they lack the harmony produced by a V8's A v8 has an even number of firings per rotation (four, since a firing only happens every other time the piston reaches the top of the cylinder), whereas a V6 has an odd number, which doesn't produce acoustic harmony.
Just an idea I've been thinking about for a while. I personally would rather have a muffler that cancels out the high pitched noise instead of something like a flowmaster that uses harmonics and whatnot to cancel certain sounds out. Turbo mufflers ftw
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