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02-01-17, 11:43 PM
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4 ring whore!
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Sissix-by-the-sea
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Badly tuned 911
Whilst 'out and about' today, we were walking the dog at Rackham, a place where we have video'd quattros, TVR's and Rallyreps over the years... I've also heard Astons, Jags, Mexicos and GTR's all barking 'in the woods' for a bit of filming 'as it were'... The sounds echo through the trees making distant engine notes distinctly different to close up sounds... So 'long pull' acceleration is a mixture of close up engine induction, developing into a beautiful exhaust echo...
Until today... There was a god almighty, and frankly, knackered and tinny din... Clearly not a 4 or 5 pot, a straight six wouldn't have been seen dead making such a din, and a V&, bless, couldn't have sounded as bad with only a spark, let alone an explosion.... No, it was a naturally aspirated Porsche 911, circa 2014, with tinsel LED's and an after market exhaust... I wish I'd have had the time to video it, seriously, it was so right of dreadful it'd almost fallen off the right hand side and come back up on the left... Tinny, rasping, harsh and ugly... Personally, I've never enjoyed performance 4pots, but christ on a bike, the terrible, almost broken sound that came out of this 911 flat six was on a different level of awfulness... Clearly, I have little information on the 'spec' or the owner, but I can safely say, whoever you are, your car sounded bloody awful... Please put the original exhaust back on... 
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1985 WR quattro, 1985 20vT RallyRep, 1993 MTM ABY S2 Avant. 2010 S3 Sportback. 
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03-01-17, 12:02 AM
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Trickster
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Location: Heckling from the cheap seats, Phnom Penh, KoW
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So...not impressed, then?
I have to say, on the whole, I'm rarely impressed with average 911 note. So a bad one would be plumbing un-plumbed depths.
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03-01-17, 12:13 AM
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making wooden things
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: cow land
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I had exactly the same thoughts about two weeks ago sitting behind one at traffic lights in Prestwick, private reg. but not very old, awful bloody sound, literally sounded like a two stroke strimmer with a coke can as an exhaust. I take it they must sound better from the inside?
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03-01-17, 01:20 PM
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2012 B8.5 [color="Red"]A4 2.0TFSI quattro Avant Black Edition - Lava Grey [color="Red"] - Current 2008 B7 S4 4.2 V8 Cabriolet - Moro Blue - Current 2005 B6 A4 3.0 Sport Cabriolet - Moro Blue - sold 2000 B4 80 2.6 Cabriolet Final Edition - Ming Blue - sold - & missed  2003 C5 A6 3.0 quattro Avant - Night Blue - current 1998 C5 A6 2.8 quattro Avant - Ming Blue - sold 1994 B4 80 2.6SE Avant - Indigo Pearl - sold - & missed 1993 B4 80 2.0 16V Sport - Gomera Green - sold |
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03-01-17, 10:37 PM
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4 ring whore!
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1985 WR quattro, 1985 20vT RallyRep, 1993 MTM ABY S2 Avant. 2010 S3 Sportback.
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03-01-17, 11:24 PM
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