Yeah, I've seen it where I am too. Mostly the trucks with the 'Carolina squat' and those HUGE exhaust tips that seem to greatly amplify the noise from their straight pipes. Drives me absolutely insane. I was pulling out making a left across a 4 lane road leaving the cruise-in in the '57 the other night. Just as I was pulling out, a guy behind my squatting obnoxious hero changes lanes, getting away from the obnoxious noise I guess. At any rate, lane changer slowed and motioned me to go, which at that point I really had no choice as traffic was closing in from my left. I had to stand on it a little, which my squatting obnoxious hero seemed to take as a challenge. He laid on the throttle while those huge exhaust tips were pretty much even with my open pass side windows. Instant noise-triggered headache. (Yay for migraines, yes?)

 

Each time we are identified as a particular group (Bowlers, Green Bay fan, street rodder, etc) you are an ambassador for that group. I try to maintain good driving habits while on the road in my roadster BUT some people will claim you are speeding (or whatever outside the law) just because of your profile. And yes, every time I'm first at a light you can bet the guy in a belch-fire eight next to me will feed his ego.

 

I live off SR64 in Manatee County Florida, right down the road from Cletus's freedom factory and the drag strip. during the import drags, we get drones of yahoo's banging their cars off their rev limiters. the cops usually get them on video street racing and cite them as they pull into the track. its really funny when they start talking back to the LEOs. then you see citation after citation

regarding squatted bro trucks...... plenty here..... stupid looking IMO. and because the ID-10-T behind the wheel didnt adjust his headlights properly, they blind everyone at night.

as I get older, I quit caring about what others think or do.

 

Often I get young guys doing "fly-bys" or drifting in my lane when they see my car. Its getting to the point where there's places and times I just take the civilian ride instead

Im all for people making their car their own. Hell I still do burnouts and rev my engine, and downshift aggressively; but its purely because I enjoy it. With the exception of when a kid asks me to rev the engine LOL Get em addicted early.
My car gets a fair amount of detractors who dont understand 90s ProStreet, Henry J's or having fun LOL

 

I hear that get um interest in it early. I did take my friends 10yr old for his first hotrod ride. And yea I stood on it and banged 2nd, just to show him the fun. But not racing the blvd

 

I have to peel my 3 year old daughter out of the Nova any time she convinces me she needs to sit in it and "drive". If that girl doesn't end up scrubbing grease out from under her nails an hour before picking up her date to prom in whatever interesting vehicle she ends up with I'll be shocked. She's got about as many tools as I do at this point lol.

 

When the noisy stuff isn't even fast it's so much worse. The number of the squatted trucks or rice rockets, or V6 modern pony cars with loud pipes that sound TERRIBLE that stand on it and take 10 minutes to get out of earshot drive me crazy.

All that commotion and noise for nothing... Barely even speeding after staying in it assaulting everyone's ears for 20 seconds... The truck guys... dear lord, how in the world do you make your V8's sound so horrible?! Is there some secret underground of muffler / pipes designed to make the sweet sweet sound of an American V8 sound like a misfiring Harley? What are they doing with their lives? haha...

Now that I think about it I honestly seem to run into the above behavior more in the Wrangler (just a normal JKU) than the Nova. Maybe it's the flames, maybe it's because it's about the size of a golf cart next to most of the modern stuff and they don't even see it, maybe it just gets me out of their path of destruction too fast to be bothered by it but I'll take it!

 

No offense to Ford owners, but the late model Mustangs have the most nasty annoying sound EVER!

 

The sound is faked. It's a piezoelectric speaker in the exhaust to fake the sounds

Like the Dodge E-charger

 

Oh like the old people now werent ever kids hotrodding and annoying the adults

 

GET OFF MY LAWN!! LMAO

 

I used to have a 2021 BMW M340i, so I followed BMW forums.

In stock form the 372 HP 2021 M340i does zero to 60 in 4 seconds (or less), and has a top speed of 155 mph, and it gets 32 MPG on the highway. However, one of the most common forum postings (complaints) was that in 2021 BMW had tuned the ECU so there were fewer pops and burbles compared to previous years. It was just as fast as previous years, so I always thought it was sad that pops and burbles mattered more than actual performance.

 

"burble tunes" were a thing here.

 

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I hate those cars that do that, and the drivers who do it right beside me like they think somehow I'm impressed.
I too don't street race, but some years back a couple guys in a Subaru WRX pulled up next to me while I was sitting at a stop light in my '63 Falcon. He revved up the engine until it hit the rev limiter and then looked over and laughed. His buddy turned to me and said his friend wanted to race me for $150! I told him, "You're scaring me man! I can't make my car do that."
When the light changed they raced off 2 blocks to the next light. I pulled up beside them again, and they were both laughing hysterically. I had a 468 BBC in my Falcon with tunnel ram, and dual Holleys. Huge cam, Edelbrock heads, and a Super T10 4 speed. I watched the side light turn yellow, and mashed the throttle, dumped the clutch about 5,000 rpm's and lifted the front wheels a foot as I launched. Banged 2nd, and slammed on the brakes to stop at the next light. I looked over and smiled as they drove up. Turned to the passenger and said, "I changed my mind, tell your buddy I do want to race!" The driver wouldn't look over, and when the light changed he turned the corner and slinked away.
I think I chuckled all the way home after that.

 

I hate those cars that do that, and the drivers who do it right beside me like they think somehow I'm impressed.
I too don't street race, but some years back a couple guys in a Subaru WRX pulled up next to me while I was sitting at a stop light in my '63 Falcon. He revved up the engine until it hit the rev limiter and then looked over and laughed. His buddy turned to me and said his friend wanted to race me for $150! I told him, "You're scaring me man! I can't make my car do that."
When the light changed they raced off 2 blocks to the next light. I pulled up beside them again, and they were both laughing hysterically. I had a 468 BBC in my Falcon with tunnel ram, and dual Holleys. Huge cam, Edelbrock heads, and a Super T10 4 speed. I watched the side light turn yellow, and mashed the throttle, dumped the clutch about 5,000 rpm's and lifted the front wheels a foot as I launched. Banged 2nd, and slammed on the brakes to stop at the next light. I looked over and smiled as they drove up. Turned to the passenger and said, "I changed my mind, tell your buddy I do want to race!" The driver wouldn't look over, and when the light changed he turned the corner and slinked away.
I think I chuckled all the way home after that.

Awesome!

 

Not a whole lot different than the Harley idiots who have to jazz the throttle every 3 seconds at a stop light.....
Yes, i know you love the sound of a John Deere B....doesn't mean everyone else does....

the "Import Fart Boys", I just flat out laugh at them.

 

Not a whole lot different than the Harley idiots who have to jazz the throttle every 3 seconds at a stop light.....

They do that to keep the motor running because they fiddled with the carb to the point of non running

 

man, quite a few whiners in here sounding like they are from the 1930s...

Hot rodding, as a distinct hobby and culture, emerged in the 1930s in Southern California. It began with young enthusiasts modifying older Ford Model Ts and Model As to go faster

 

Yes, and just like back then our grandparents didn't understand why the younger guys loved those cars. But I never heard of guys back then obnoxiously revving their engines against the rev limiters, or the turbo pop off valves. Huge difference between an old hotrod, and what we're hearing these days.

 

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Back when the first Fast & Furious movie came out they suddenly felt emboldened. My Camaro was still my daily driver back then and ran low 11's on the motor. Suddenly I got all these Honda Civic's, etc. driving the opposite direction and bouncing their cars off the rev limiter when they saw me. They would always do it going the other direction or pull up next to me and do it as they turn down a side street, etc. Annoying as heck. None of them would actually line up next to my car.

 

A friend was giving me a ride in his new diesel Blazer(remember those?) and a couple fart can boyz pulled up next to us at a light and let us know they're there, it's summer the windows are down. My buddy gets this look on his face, checks his mirrors and says "here's another thing it can do" and pumps the accelerator a few times and rolls coal straight into fart boyz window. I guess fart can passenger didn't have his window down, I've never seen carbon fill a car so well, even the wipers came on as the light finally turned.

 

I've noticed a trend with the diesel pickup guys too. It's my understanding there is an accelerator defect in them and all they have is idle and floor. Lots of noise from the sewer pipe exhaust, but that's about it.

I work with a young man that is in the fartmobile scene with his Honda. He doesn't like my Elky's sound because the engine doesn't idle smooth like his. He does understand what my tailights look like though, lol!

 

Yea I hear ya on the diesel trucks. Other day we are coming outta Wal Mart loading groceries into my wife car. And her comes i giant diesel pickup, starts a break stand and then proceeds to smoke tge tires doing donuts in the parking lot.
One guy was getting pissed. I was just watching waiting for him to hit the cart corale Ida pissed my pants laughing.

 

I've got a diesel truck story. I live on a fairly busy street. Been here since the early 90's and I've owned my Camaro even longer. I get tons of people that like to rev their engine as they go by. I also have a 3/4 ton Ram crew cab diesel that has a nice lift and big tires. For about 6 months I noticed that this guy in a silver older Ram diesel crew cab would drive by around 3PM and would start rolling coal in front of my house. His exhaust blew on the houses across the street. Didn't blow towards my house. I wasn't sure if he wanted to race the Camaro or my crew cab diesel or maybe he wanted to take me out for dinner and a show?

 

If he's paying and it's a good show, take the dinner and a show. lol

Frankly I think he was hitting on your Ram, I watched some nature shows, I think it's called peacocking lol... Didn't watch the show long enough to see what the Ram mating ritual is, but it sounds like it might be "dirty" hahahaha...

I'll see myself out lol

 

I see no mention of the guys who like to play their boom boxes at max volume at the stop light. That's the one that really gets to me. Not to mention that what they're listening to is horrible.

 

Oh man, this, especially when the license plate rattles like a snare drum lol. Also the bikers with their radios cranked to 11. If the music coming from your vehicle is louder inside my vehicle than my own music inside my vehicle, I feel like you're just seeking attention haha.

 

Just had this, this morning. Im cruisin in my daily beater (2012 Caddy CTS v6/2wd old man sedan) to work, coffee firmly in hand. Get to a stoplight and this laid out, air bagged, big front wheel bagger harley pulls up. Extraordinary cream white and lime green paint, and the absolute worst combo of big loud crappy stereo and shotgun pipes. I love loud things; guns, tools, cars, bikes, concerts. But this was painful. I put my window up while sipping coffee in my caddy and bumped Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power in peace

 

and I thought you liked the sound of a hit-n-miss motor

 

I hear ya on the bass systems in cars.
I have 4 EAW SB series subs for my band and side local sound jobs so I like a pounding kick drum. But it needs to be crossed over correctly to the tops cabs so you have a flat frequency response from the subs lowest notes to tge horn or tweeters highest note.
NOT throw 4 subs in a trunk and max the sub level 10dbu over your stock dash speaker and door speakers.
Note to mention the one note subs that are not tuned, that have one frequency area that sticks out like a sore thumb.
And put sone foam in back of tge damn license plate.lol

 

I have a fairly loud lifted Diesel truck (No Squat) and it is tuned for about 500hp and 1000lbft, but I paid extra for a CLEAN tune, so I have very little black smoke even when I get on it. I hate when I see trucks blow black smoke, it means they are not properly tuned and wasting diesel or they have bad injectors. There was a time when certain guys specifically tuned their trucks to roll coal, I always thought was dumb.

When I see a nice hot rod or other truck that obviously has some mods, I like to rev my engine hoping they will also. Not that I want to race just want to hear it.

As for the popping and cracking sound, those guys look for it. I had a 3 cylinder Mini Cooper (BMW) as a commuter car for a bit and on the Mini forum that was a common theme. Again another not properly tuned in my head at least.