19Bozzy92

I post here a video of a very very loud Corvette C2 I saw a few weeks ago during an event for historical cars. I assure you that I had to stop filming because of the noise.

What do you think about this car?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAurUw6fBE

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about what would be expected for an open exhaust car, especially inside a building
Bill

capevettes

Sweet music

TheSaint

To me the car looks just like a Corvette C2 used for historic racing in Europe
Competing with Ferraris, Porsches, Astons well all the known European sport cars

dahogan

Got that right

Procrastination Racing

Agreed. If you want loud, find an old Trans Am RX-7 from around 1980. At Mid America Raceway You could hear the big block Corvettes in Turns 2, 3, 4, and so on from Turn 8, but the RX-7s grabbed you and wouldn't let go.

That loud does no one any good. After getting the 427 built, I recorded 115 dB on the straight to turn 1 at Moroso. Limit at the time was 108 dB. We put together a bunch of baffles and got down to 112. Black flagged again for noise.

So the rest of the weekend, I would lift and clutch in to coast as I passed sound control.

Even with ear plugs, the ear shields, and a full-face helmet, it was far too loud to be comfortable in the car.


The next month, we had it running about 106 with baffles. We never saw a difference in lap times.

The next year at Sebring, the baffles gave us 107 with the 302. Since that could marginally jump to 108, and some tracks were talking about using 105 dB, we changed to a different set of pipes with mufflers and dropped to 98 dB. No noticeable difference in lap times.



Loud pipes don't save lives, but they give you hearing loss and get you disqualified from races.

magicv8

This is a good one too. If you stand within a car length of it, you feel it in the soles of your feet:

MarkL36

I got wood listening to that! Love hearing a big block knocking them off.

OldKarz

Love that sound!

jjtoma

Get me a break, this must be a joke.

Jim

DZAUTO

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, so I would presume you're not a fan of top fuel dragsters, right? Or top fuel hydros?

Tom Parsons

ps374

It sounds louder than a Harley, and that means it really loud.

LSUvetteguy

Sweeeeeet!

John 66 Vette

Hua! Did he say it was too loud?

Fawndeuce

I hear you brother! This pic is from circa '77, and that little RX3 had a full race bridge-port 12A in it, with a Racing Beat high rise intake and Holey 450.
The problem was the noise, the backfires would blow out regular mufflers, or melt the glass in glass packs, so I ran a Racing Beat 16ga steal box muffler, BOY WAS IT LOUD!
The backfires when you lifted from full throttle were also entertaining, sounded like a shotgun blast, and would shoot two or three foot flames out the tail pipe!
Sure surprised a lot of Z28's, Vettes and TA's with that little car though, light and very fast.



Paul

earthquake68

Sounded like music to me. I guess I'm not old enough to be turned off by a well running big block through open headers yet.

DZAUTO

So, I guess he sure as heck wouldn't enjoy the sound of a Merlin in a P51 at full song, or our A26 making a low pass at full throttle.

What a shame. I guess he must be a ricer lover at heart with a fart can on the tail pipe.

And it would be a waste to invite him to Tinker AFB to observe a B1 bomber start it's takeoff roll with full afterburners kicked in.

Tom Parsons