Is it possible to plumb a 3.9L Rover V8 so it sounds like this?
Awesome V8
Or do I need the mother of all big blocks to get it?
sounds like my 3.5 did with just a 4 into one manifold and on each side and two cherry bomb silencers...great sound but too loud to drive!
Paul
The secret is a link pipe, two straight through exhausts sound like two mis-firing four cylinder engines.
What a bunch of dickhead howlers !!
did sound nice though
I toyed with the idea quite a lot about trying to get some form of link pipe sorted to try to get the V8 burble from mine, but I did't know
enough to attempt it...
Is it really as simple as running a link pipe between the 2 exhausts? I.e. straight across from just after the 4-1 collectors?
Mark
P.S Sorry to semi-hijack your thread!
And no helmet!! mad sod i bet he has nutted that rollbar a few times
That video got tedious very quickly...
"That video got tedious very quickly..."
YES IT DID !!
and those twits at the end ????
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Originally posted by Paradoxia0
I toyed with the idea quite a lot about trying to get some form of link pipe sorted to try to get the V8 burble from mine, but I did't know enough to attempt it...
Is it really as simple as running a link pipe between the 2 exhausts? I.e. straight across from just after the 4-1 collectors?
Mark
P.S Sorry to semi-hijack your thread!
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Originally posted by coozer
quote:
Originally posted by Paradoxia0
I toyed with the idea quite a lot about trying to get some form of link pipe sorted to try to get the V8 burble from mine, but I did't know enough to attempt it...
Is it really as simple as running a link pipe between the 2 exhausts? I.e. straight across from just after the 4-1 collectors?
Mark
P.S Sorry to semi-hijack your thread!
That's no hijack my friend, its exactly what I want to know..
Just a random note, if you want a full on American V8 sound then go for a normal link pipe (sometimes called a H-pipe for obvious reasons).
You get a different sound with an X-pipe (as fitted to my M5).
TVR use a Y section.
I've always marvelled at how big those pipes are on a TVR, surely they don't need to be that big? I thought that really big bore pipes are
great on forced induction but only help the top end on an NA engine - i.e. they can shift the peak torque up the rev range so peak power is up but at
the expense of the bottom and mid range. Although with a whacking great V8 I suppose they don't lack low end torque...
Either way they sound spot on 
Something 2/3rd the size of the main pipes just after the collectors straight across does the trick, it is that simple
You get the noise as the engine fires 18436572 so Right, Left, Left, Right, Left, Right, Right, Left
Its definitely all about the balance pipe - X, Y & H versions all affect the sound but also power.
Buggered if I can remember which is which though
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Originally posted by hobbsy
I've always marvelled at how big those pipes are on a TVR, surely they don't need to be that big? I thought that really big bore pipes are great on forced induction but only help the top end on an NA engine - i.e. they can shift the peak torque up the rev range so peak power is up but at the expense of the bottom and mid range. Although with a whacking great V8 I suppose they don't lack low end torque...
Either way they sound spot on
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Originally posted by RazMan
Its definitely all about the balance pipe - X, Y & H versions all affect the sound but also power.
Buggered if I can remember which is which though
Loving that, its good power out of a LS1 have you done any mods to the engine, I keep thinking it would be a good project fitting one of those with
the 6 speed box with the extra 100bhp would be a good conversion for my TVR
, only thing that puts me off is the rover is such a good engine,
unlike the Rotary in the RX7, I wish people would stop posting video's up like that, might have to buy a RX7 with a blown engine now, and a LS1
engine of course
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Originally posted by PAUL FISHER
Loving that, its good power out of a LS1 have you done any mods to the engine, I keep thinking it would be a good project fitting one of those with the 6 speed box with the extra 100bhp would be a good conversion for my TVR