Noisy mufflers. What is the purpose?

[VILEPLUME]

Hello all,

In my part of town, there are many 20-year-olds with 4 bangers and noisy mufflers who punch it at every light.

Is this like a cool thing to do carried over from the Fast and Furious days? Or is it a cry for attention that is maybe not received at home? I'm trying to understand the psychology behind it since my understanding that these car "upgrades" are often not cheap?

Thoughts?

 

[cannabineer]

Hello all,

In my part of town, there are many 20-year-olds with 4 bangers and noisy mufflers who punch it at every light.

Is this like a cool thing to do carried over from the Fast and Furious days? Or is it a cry for attention that is maybe not received at home? I'm trying to understand the psychology behind it since my understanding that these car "upgrades" are often not cheap?

Thoughts?

I’m generally a quiet sort of guy.

But when I procured me a dresser, I fitted it with a Thunderheader exhaust at the loud end of the possible.

It made my bike suddenly more visible to the car operators around me.

This has exactly zero to do with the abomination that is cars with “I scratch my balls in your general direction” exhausts.

 

[Singlemalt]

Hello all,

In my part of town, there are many 20-year-olds with 4 bangers and noisy mufflers who punch it at every light.

Is this like a cool thing to do carried over from the Fast and Furious days? Or is it a cry for attention that is maybe not received at home? I'm trying to understand the psychology behind it since my understanding that these car "upgrades" are often not cheap?

Thoughts?

This precedes Fast and Furious by 60-70 yrs. Young guys having been doing it since the 50's and it was an extension of moonshiners hopping up cars to escape the cops and "revenuooers".

It's a testosterone thing

 

[lokie]

This precedes Fast and Furious by 60-70 yrs. Young guys having been doing it since the 50's and it was an extension of moonshiners hopping up cars to escape the cops and "revenuooers".

It's a testosterone thing

 

[Oakiey]

Did running a garden hose up a hot cherry bomb really work making them louder braking up the fiberglass in them?

I did it

 

[DarkWeb]

This precedes Fast and Furious by 60-70 yrs. Young guys having been doing it since the 50's and it was an extension of moonshiners hopping up cars to escape the cops and "revenuooers".

It's a testosterone thing

Yes but very few know how to actually make it fast..........they throw lots of $ at it like a new grower does that has a few bucks. Everything needs to work in a harmony not just loud.

Same idea when someone says "ah it rides like a jeep" ........no you just don't get it!

LOL that is all!

 

[raratt]

Less restrictive mufflers allow exhaust gasses to escape easier to increase performance, to an extent. The "tuner" cars sound like gnats to me, but a nicely built V8 with turbo mufflers is music.

 

[Cookie Rider]

The idea is to "uncork" the motor, freeing up power.
Thing is it only frees up top end power waaaay up, near redline.
That's why they are trying to get to the top of each gear.
In my shame days I had a "pea shooter, fart cannon"
Sounded sweet untill I accelerated.
Fuck me, I regretted it instantly.

Lived w it for a few months, and got a speeding ticket.

The cop exclaimed "I heard you coming from a mile away!"

I swapped it out for a quality exhaust,
That is much quieter, even gets compliments on how good it sounds.
The exhaust the car should have come with.

 

[DarkWeb]

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/when-do-gas-exhaust-temperatures-become-cause-for-concern/
Harmony.........freer flowing exhausts work to a point then you rob power. You can have a V8 with duals but a H or a X pipe is better than straight.......it helps keep heat which helps with pulling the exhaust through the pipe. Think of a cold chimney compared to a hot one.

 

[spliffendz]

We have them here every night, sounds like gunshots going off or loud crackles and bangs.... I prefer the sound of a solid exhaust with a good vrooomph sound

 

[spliffendz]

I met a guy who was showing me a top level mercedes on his phone and said he was going to buy it next, all crackles and bangs when you press the accelerator, I asked him what you are asking, and instead of punching me, he said people like what they like, so I was like errm ok...

 

[raratt]

Nothing like a bunch of loud motorcycles riding through a parking garage setting off car alarms. I was giggling by the time we parked.

 

[DarkWeb]

I met a guy who was showing me a top level mercedes on his phone and said he was going to buy it next, all crackles and bangs when you press the accelerator, I asked him what you are asking, and instead of punching me, he said people like what they like, so I was like errm ok...

Yeah my best friend has a Honda that you need ear plugs (not shitting he drives with ear plugs) and I make fun of him all the time........but it is pretty cool and handles like a mofo! Solid mounts front to back.

 

[fragileassassin]

I have no mid mufflers on my hellcat and I stomp on it all around the city.
Makes me feel nice.

 

[spliffendz]

Yeah my best friend has a Honda that you need ear plugs (not shitting he drives with ear plugs) and I make fun of him all the time........but it is pretty cool and handles like a mofo! Solid mounts front to back.

Someone took me for a spin in mercedes 6.3 something or other and it growled like a beast, not sure which one it was, that was preferable to crackly gun shots for me

 

[fragileassassin]

We have them here every night, sounds like gunshots going off or loud crackles and bangs.... I prefer the sound of a solid exhaust with a good vrooomph sound

Likely someone out there dicking around with a 2-step. Its meant for launch control when racing but a lot of dickheads get them just to hit it randomly and make noise.
Some cars sound like a damn ak47 or some shit when it pops.

 

[spliffendz]

 

[raratt]

Commiefornia made a law against any modifications that "Increase exhaust noise" The original bill was to outlaw exhaust cutouts, which I can understand, but they just cut the throat of aftermarket exhaust companies. Sissies.

 

[raratt]

NASCAR's roots were the bootleggers.

 

[lokie]

NASCAR's roots were the bootleggers.

Sure thing

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Robert Glenn Johnson Jr., better known as Junior Johnson, was a NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s. He won 50 NASCAR races in his career before retiring in 1966. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a NASCAR racing team owner; he sponsored such NASCAR champions as Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip. Wikipedia
Born: June 28, 1931, Ronda, NC
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Throughout the years, this rebellious approach to living sent Junior’s father and brothers in and out of prison. In fact, the only one in the family never to get busted was his dear mother. And when Junior got behind the wheel to run ‘shine at the tender age of 14, things finally started to turn around. He had the spirit of a racer, and his slick driving skills were good for the family business…and bad for the authorities in the rearview.

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