Re: [HSS] Re: Exhaust Note

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zkwills@aol.com wrote:

>

> --- In HudsonSuperSix16-29@y..., Hudson29@a... wrote:

> >

> > In a message dated 8/25/01 8:40:47 AM, zkwills@a... writes:

> >

> > << I read your essay about the origins of the Super Six exaust

> > sound and realized that I hadn't heard mine in a while. In fact, it

> > had been so long that messages about web sites, chat rooms and the

> > like were starting to matter to me. An hour's drive down narrow,

> tree

> > lined country roads listening to that sweet exaust note has brought

> > me to my senses. >>

> >

> > Having started my automotive love affair with British sports

> cars, the

> > exhaust note has always been very important to me. Both of my

> Hudsons sound

> > like trucks, no big worry as I like trucks, but until Geoff & Zeke

> started

> > talking about how nice their Super Sixes sounded, I didn't give the

> Hudson

> > note much thought. My cars are not musical.

> > As I recall, the English secret to a melodious note, especially

> on

> > overrun, was to use fairly small diameter pipe with a reasonably

> open

> > muffler. The Rootes cars added a resonator and were among the best

> sounding

> > of all.

> > What sort of note are you getting and what sort of system are

> you using?

> > Are you getting the nice braaap tone when you back off the gas? A

> musical

> > exhaust is worth trashing an otherwise perfectly good system to

> accomplish!

> > My Hudson doesn't sound anything like a British car(although it

> does leak a little oil now and then). It's hard to describe the sound

> since it is behind me most of the time. More truck like, but with

> melody. To borrow a phrase from Elton John (or is that John

> Elton?) "sweet freedom whispering in my ear". Zeke

> >

> >

> > Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@a...

> > Fullerton, California USA

> >

In my opinion most British Sports cars sound like flatulent donkeys!