After rambling around West Texas for a couple of weeks and staying in campgrounds with a large number of oil field workers, I wish I could go back and apologize to all the folks I've annoyed with my noisy hot rods, motorcycles, and even a pickup or two. I'm old and cranky, now, I guess, but a diesel pickup leaving the campground at 5:am is really annoying! I'm glad they're working, but I WOULD like to sleep a little longer! I reckon it's payback for the sins of my youth.

Several years ago i was working out of town and the rv park i was staying at came to me and told me to park my pickup outside the park as people were complaining about the noise in the morning.

I have no problem with loud diesels -- even when they do wake me up -- since that's how they came from the factory.

My Diesel is loud even more so when it's cold and the morning is quite. I try to start it and idle out of the campground as quick as possible.

If your youth was anything like mine...yeah, this is payback for your past sins. I grew up in a small town and some of us guys had cars that we modified the exhaust with headers that could be opened for the drag strip. We thought it was great fun to drive up and down the residential streets, late at night, with our headers open.So now I'm punished every time I go out on the street as some young squirt pulls up next to me with his base woofers blasting out a beat that causes my dentures to vibrate and hearing aids pop outta my ears.I just smile and drive on....Ron

lanerd wrote:If your youth was anything like mine...yeah, this is payback for your past sins. I grew up in a small town and some of us guys had cars that we modified the exhaust with headers that could be opened for the drag strip. We thought it was great fun to drive up and down the residential streets, late at night, with our headers open.So now I'm punished every time I go out on the street as some young squirt pulls up next to me with his base woofers blasting out a beat that causes my dentures to vibrate and hearing aids pop outta my ears.I just smile and drive on....RonSame here.

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burningman
Explorer II
Apr 30, 2014
I love the sound of a loud engine if it's loud for a legitimate reason. High compression, big cam, free breathing intake/heads/exhaust sounds great. But loud pipes on a stock engine is nothing but annoying noise, that doesn't even sound good to a hot rod guy like me. It's not the same.
DRTDEVL
Explorer
Apr 30, 2014
Sometimes its supposed to be loud... But this won't go on the road with me. I will put it in storage in my father's garage when I full time.

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Stefonius
Explorer
Apr 30, 2014
Toddlers always feel the need to be as loud as possible all of the time. Some folks just never progress past that stage.

In nature, the quiet prey animals survive and the loud predators starve to death.

I learned my lesson as a teenager. My truck was loud and sounded sweet, but I couldn't sneak home after curfew without waking up my parents and the neighbors. These days, I try to be as quiet as possible when I'm around other humans who may want to enjoy the peace of being out in the woods with their RVs.

Of course, I have a 2003 7.3 liter diesel and you can hear it a block away. I have been looking for ways to quiet the darned thing down ever since I brought it home and realized that I am now the third loudest guy on my street. :o
rickeoni
Explorer
Apr 30, 2014
Most of us who like/have sweet sounding vehicles do it for our own pleasure and not to impress anyone. I like the sound of a big cam and a free flowing exhaust on a V8. I am quite proud of the fact that I never grew-up and got old and crabby. I will do anything I can to stay in my childlike stage and enjoy life, life is short enough not to enjoy it to the fullest.

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pnichols
Explorer II
May 04, 2014
rickeoni wrote:
I like the sound of a big cam and a free flowing exhaust on a V8.

So did I ... until I heard the sound of a V12 at 8000 RPM.

And then I fell entirely out of love with V8's and in love with the wildest engine sound of all ... a V16 at around 12000 RPM:

http://bangshift.com/general-news/videos/hearing-test-video-is-the-brm-v16-the-best-sounding-race-motor-of-all-time/
Jarlaxle
Explorer II
May 04, 2014
Hardly. Try the thunder of a Hemi with an 8-71 blower running a fuel mix of methanol, nitro, and hydrazine...7000RPM through open zoomies.

The F1 car sounds like a sportbike.
Kusani
Explorer
May 04, 2014
This topic has drifted far from 'Rv Lifestyle'.

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