Back when I was in high school all the dirt necks ran straight piped trucks,...well after a 15yr break from that fad,...its BACK,...been hearing these ignorant asshats all over for the past year now,..just had a dumbass pass me and it sounded like an AK47 going off 4in from my ear. And when I thought people couldn't possibly find another way to make me want to plant them,..... Idk how a 200hp v8 can make that much noise but its unreal,..I'm sure they've found a way reducing it down to small dia pipe and then using a 24in long 4in tip or some nonsense,..cant wait to get beside one at a red light or something so I can tell him how stupid he is
I have a fart can pilot in my neighborhood. Starts his pos up and the whole town gets to hear it. You can hear him going thru the gears a mile or more away. Guy is in his late thirties, early forties, I don't git it. Wifey told me I needed to uncork the MT SS headers and paint the street in front of his house black at 2 am the first morning, 3 am the second to welcome him to town. Jim
We have a local knucklehead with a beater duramax and straight pipe up the center of the back of the cab through the box floor that is NO KIDDING, 16 -24 inches in diameter and chrome plated. I know the kid gets free fuel (probably crack arnolds french fry oil) since he's always spooled up with a plume going 50 feet into the air... totally impressive. At least its not out the side pointed at me sitting next to that! ws
I had the mid pipes deleted on my 392 Scatpack....and I regret it. It’s SO loud...it’s a little embarrassing.
I think this is exactly what our parents and neighbors thought about us when we put headers and glasspacks on everything that moved in the 70s and 80s........Can still remember driving down the street and setting every car alarm off within a 4 block area at 3 am. Lol...
But we regularly got ticketed for those loud pipes. Don't they do that anymore? I often wondered why they didn't ticket nearly every Harley owner for the same thing. They are louder than our glasspacks were. I'm not cutting on Harleys, I had one myself in my younger years. There's a local guy that has a blown `32 Ford coupe with zoomies on it. Says he's never been pulled over for it, and certainly doesn't baby it.
When ya drive by the high school parking lot mid day every one of the above mentioned abominations can be seen. Come 2:30 it sounds like the start of a mud truck rally. Friday and sat night they can all be found hanging out in the Publix parking lot. Country music and dog boxes everywhere.
Loud pipes were the #1 item that police stopped us for in the late '50s and early to mid '60s. I was even stopped in my 300 H for loud pipes; I let the Newton, Massachusetts cop write the ticket, then suggested that he mail it to Chrysler in Detroit, since the exhaust was factory and didn't leak. I don't think that they are nearly as aggressive about noise today. Someone called a TV station in Massachusetts several years ago complaining about HD noise. The station found that the State Police had written exactly eight tickets for motorcycle noise in the previous year.
Around here it's obnoxious diesels and late model mustangs. They gotta be loud and absolutely hammer down as soon as they turn on my road. Makes me feel like a crotchety old man (which is funny since the offenders are usually my age or older it seems), but drives me nuts.
I think that Europe sometimes goes a bit overboard. If the car is reasonably quiet and the exhaust doesn't leak, what's the problem?
You haven't lived until you've heard a rotary engine in a race car. Someone figured out they made the most power with a funnel shape exit for scavenging. OMG it is ear splitting, even at idle. Think Mazda RX-7 in SCCA in the 80's....
I remember them well! I used to go to Road Atlanta back in the 80's. Definitely ear splitting, or worse.
I don't know what it is about those Coyote Mustangs but they will absolutely make your teeth itch when one of them mashes the pedal and flies by you. Kind of startling if your not expecting it. The diesels never bothered me, doesn't sound as obnoxious to me I guess...
My favorite local around here has the straight pipe in the air behind the cab but no Diesel. Early 80s chevy 1/2 ton small block so he put on a manual choke and pulls it out when he wants to make black smoke.
The sad part is the cops here in central Florida don't care at all, neither do my county administrators or code enforcement. You can here them running up and down the roads all night long. My issue is they come down my private dirt road to spook the horses and do donuts in the dirt leaving our easements in shambles after we spend hours grading, think it's hilarious and and on a couple of occasions leave me with $600-$1000 vet bills. My wife and I have been knocked down and my daughter has been knocked down 3X when they do that. Cops just say too bad, so sad, even with video and license plates pics. Their parents just tell me to F-off. The world is out of control and we're headed for anarchy (okay my political rant is over). Mikey
