You definitely would not like my Harley Davidson with the aftermarket
exhaust then Guy. It sets off car alarms at 100 feet when I really get on
it, but I wear ear plugs. The ear plugs are more for the wind noise instead
of the noise behind me.
Mike MacLean
56 BN2
60 AN5
02 Heritage Springer
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Guy R Day <grday@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Here in the UK a loud vehicle exhaust sound in the street is generally seen
> as a bad sign. It conjures up images of forever being stopped by the
> Police, of potentially dangerous youth involvement (ie drugs, muggings,
> thefts etc), of being a flash boy racer or fast uncontrolled driving. It is
> always a source of amusement to read posts where having a loud exhaust note
> is a requisite. Seeing some of the exhaust tail pipes that are larger than
> the engine cylinder bore is also an amusing sight provided by 'yoof' who
> cruise around in rather loud Jap cars. Bling rules in the street parade!
> Please do not get me wrong, the sound of a well tuned exhaust note is
> wonderful and despite living across town and 4 miles away from what was my
> nearest car tuning centre I could still hear when they had a 'good' motor on
> the rolling road. This was normally a single seat racecar on the third set
> of rollers (Harry's set)that read up to 600bhp and if doing nothing else I'd
> pop down there to see what it was.
>
> A loud exhaust note does not equate to the best power output and my
> recommendation would be to thoroughly research exhaust tuning, especially
> tuned length savaging systems for LBCs.
>
> Guy R Day
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