Turbo6TA

I guess the only thing about this thread that is Corvette related, is that I am making a comparison between what a Corvette sounds like and the Viper I heard last night.

As much as I like my GS, I never really thought the car had what I could discribe as a great sounding exhaust note. We have all read the posts where people have compared the sound of a Corvette to a Rustang .. and of course, in most cases, the Mustang comes out on top as having a better exhaust note.

Well .... Last night I was at a small local car show, and this guy has this older 1996 model Viper. Fantastic looking car painted blue with white stripes and a set of very nice HRE wheels.

He then starts the car and drives off ... That car sounded like a 6 cylinder to me. How Dodge could ever get a V-10 engine to sound like a 6 cylinder with a fart-pipe on it is beyond me!

Anyone else have a comment on the sound of a Viper?

I am not at all impressed! ..... Or am I tone-deaf?

fyreline

No, that's always been one of the gripes about the Viper - it sounds like a school bus. No way you would suspect what a good high-performance motor that V-10 can be by the wet-fart exhaust note.

davidtcpa

You may be a little tone deaf, to be honest. I'm not trying to insult you, but a viper sounds pretty awesome.

The ls motors sound great with the right exhaust, but I agree that a mustang has one hell of a good sound right from the factory.

jschindler

For many years I have heard them described as sounding like a UPS truck with a hole in it's muffler.

4GS7

I am not a fan of the way Vipers sound. At all.

dvilin

I heard one a couple of months ago at a gas station and it sounded mean and awesome. Probably aftermarket exhaust as it was pretty loud.

Silver05GTO

Ask LS2 2005-2007 owners if they think their exhaust sounds good.........

As with most cars, with the right aftermarket mufflers, the sound is much improved.

AORoads

the vipers I've heard have all had modified exhausts and the overall loudness of them masked a lot, to me. but then again, they ARE truck engines or an adaptation thereof. I can't recall too many trucks that I've thought "wow!"

FloydSummerOf68

Well, 95% of corvettes sound like **** as well

(seriously)

Edit - I do agree Vipers generally don't sound nice.

COVERT GUY

That is one of the biggest letdowns of the Viper, its exhaust note is terrible, not like other V10's (Gallardo, Carrera GT and LFA) - which make some of the most amazing noises ever. The Viper sounds like two 5 cylinder motors going off.

apinedo

Hey Turbo6TA! We met in Orlando and I almost blew your ears off with the Black Mamba

I have heard some vipers and they only sound good while accelerating hard, not idleing IMHO

Turbo6TA

Nice hearing from you. Great meeting and BS'ing with you in Orlando!

My ears are still ringing from that!

I might have permanent ear damage from your Corvette!

LucaBrasiAZ

i would have to agree...i had an srt10 ram with the viper engine....took the resonators off and did full cat back exhaust and it still sounded like crap...the only ones I've heard that sound mean are the ones with high flow cats or cat deletes but then again almost any car sounds mean that way.

JSB LS3

The three exotics you mentioned all have a flat-plane crankshaft. Having only two alternating intervals per revolution where an individual cylinder can fire will make a drastically different sound than a cross-plane engine which fires its cylinders at 4 different intervals per revolution (or more precisely at one of eight intervals per cycle since we're talking about 4-stroke engine).

Obviously the construction of the rotating assemblies and the bore/stroke ratios are totally different as well and allow much higher RPM in the Porsche/Lexus/Lambo.

Your analogy about the 5-cylinder engines is spot on (for some Viper models at least). The ones that don't have a crossover pipe anywhere in the exhaust effectively ARE (from a noise standpoint anyway) two separate 5-cylinder engines.

Wayne O

With government dictating over the auto industry and in today's nauseating PC world, auto manufacturer's build weak sounding cars. The modified Vipers (and Corvettes) I hear most often sound pretty good! The stock Viper ACR-X and the Competition Coupe sound better than the Viper street versions.

tlove32

I've heard a lot has to do with the Viper V10's firing order......which is said to be quite strange.

Racer

Floyd, do you ever say anything good about Vettes? Seriously, do you?

Corby

Not trying to compare a Viper with a Ford PU, but I own a Ford PU V10 and I've heard some V10's with after market exhust. They sound awful. I don't know if it's the firing order or just the V10 sound but it's not for me. The 'vette sounds awsome compared to the V10's.

Racer

The stock Vipers sound is like poop being ejected from a dogs rump when he ate a tub of margarine.
No, maybe not.

Detoxx03

I love Vipers but despise the way they sound.