> > From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/28 Tue PM 11:37:58 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PESO: Speaking of March Madness... > > Nice, but not king. > > King is a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine, all 28 or so litres of it, tweaked > out to 4000HP or so, in full song, better yet is more than one of them.
That's the nicest, not the noisiest. > A close second is the sound of a Bearcat at full roar (Which actually > accellerates as fast or faster than most Nitro dragsters, courtesy of > the big honkin paddles hanging off its rotary) Radial. Aero engine 101 for you, my boy..... 8-))) > > -Adam > > Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > No. You have it wrong. I've heard both of those, and they don't come > > close to the king. The most incredible sound in motorsports is an > > 8-liter, 8000 horsepower, nitromethane-burinng, supercharged drag > > racing engine at full tilt. That much air moving that fast creates a > > sound unlike anything you have ever heard. Of course you shouldn't > > listen without ear plugs. The exhaust note lays right under the > > banshee scream of the intake, and it is wide, deep, and awesome. You > > can feel it in the ground, and in anything you touch. Of course, if > > you're standing near the starting line, you can also feel the pavement > > move when the cars accelerate at an off-the-mark rate of about 100 > > feet per second. Speeds at the 1/8th mile mark are now around 270 mph. > > Zero to 200 comes in somewhere between two and three seconds. > > Unfortunately, television chooses not to broadcast the real sound of > > any motorsports. Unfortunate, to say the least. > > Paul > > On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:03 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:44:39PM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> In motorsports the largest widescreen TV with 1000 watts of > >>> surround-sound home theatre can never come close to the visceral > >>> experience of several dozen big-block V8's rumbling, tires squealing, > >>> the smell of smoke and gasoline, or in the case of F1, several dozen > >>> 3.5 litre V10's screaming at some 18,000 RPM (and at those revs, > >>> "scream" is the word). > >> > >> > >> That was last year. This year they're 2.4L V8s, revving to 20K+ > >> > >> But the big-block V8s in NASCAR or Trans-Am (or some ALMS classes) > >> are the most awesome sound, if you ask me. Especially if you catch > >> them at some event like Long Beach, where they are running on city > >> streets (aka concrete canyons). The sound of a Trans-Am pack running > >> between the vertical walls of the Convention Center and the parking > >> structure has to be felt to be believed. It literally shakes the > >> buildings enough to trigger car alarms. > >> > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
