I laughed like a drain last week when a local lad went up the road in his shiteoldmotor fitted with turbo dump valve. Every time he changed gear it made a racket like an elephant farting. He probably thought it was as cool as f*ck.
Turbo bollocks
Mar 04, 2014
6 Replies
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The fart is to let you know there's a turd coming.
Steve
Did he have a Horlick's can stuck on the end of the exhaust as well?
Worse still, you can get an electronic simulator...
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I remember seeing an ad for a device to plug into the cigar socket which produced a big-engine sound, but I gave up on such gadgets after hearing the air horns on my Ford Cortina echoing back from the canyon walls of the city..
ah yes, the Sound Racer. Mind you some manufacturers have incorporated similar into the sound systems, I prefer noise suppression these days on normal cars, mind you
4 open bellmouth webers on the v8 just behind your head do sound nice for a while, then it just gets tiring.
I quite like the growl of the 3-cylinder Focus until the revs smooth it out. I swear it's faster away from traffic lights than the 1.8 Mondeo.
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