TheLoyale Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 You can alway's tell a Subaru engine before you see the car!!! Weather it's a turbo or non-turbo you can just tell!! I think it's the sound of the lifters or something! Because even new 2007 SUBARU's have a lifter sound! Like the Forester, or Outback! It's weird?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizinza Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Personally I think it's the unbalanced firing order. I say unbalanced because it fires one side then the other. I reckon I should start a thread "You can alway's tell an Auto by the sound of the engine!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik litchy Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 also air cooled vw all have a unique pitch to them. almost like a 125cc motorbike that subaru sound sure beats that honda burble doesnt it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizinza Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 sure beats that honda burble doesnt it?Problem with honda drivers is they never rev her up to 8k... It's almost like they are scared.. But thats the only time those hondas really do fly and sound great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durania Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Honda Sound=Nails On Chalkboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast I Drive Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Honda Sound=Nails On Chalkboard. Especially with those Rattly echoe can exhausts. Subarus with Cherry Bombs kill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Problem with honda drivers is they never rev her up to 8k... It's almost like they are scared.. But thats the only time those hondas really do fly and sound great. My integra got to see 8500 on a multiple time a day basis. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfire Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 You can alway's tell a Subaru engine before you see the car!!! Weather it's a turbo or non-turbo you can just tell!! I think it's the sound of the lifters or something! Because even new 2007 SUBARU's have a lifter sound! Like the Forester, or Outback! It's weird?? i noticed that today on my baja, damn lifters. lol or maybe it is theheat sheild, oh well it is a subaru....tick away..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy D Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 i ws up in tahoe with my buddy and we were walking down to the store from his house, and everytime a car was coming up behind me, every once and i while i'd say "subaru!" without looking, and sure enough, an old GL or an outback would roll on by. the subaru kid -Dalton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 personally, I LOVE the sound of a well built honda engine being driven at threshold... its like no other engine on earth, really... ..but the PROBLEM is, for every well built and tuned honda engine on the planet, theres about twenty poorly built and tuned honda engines, with godawful exhausts on them that try to make it sound like either a big I6 or a rotary engine... instead of a hi-po four. For every decently set up honda engine on the STREET (most of the good ones are in race cars) the "craptastic" number is probably more like 100. So don't sell honda short because they sold cars to people who were ignorant as for the "why" on the sound, its simple: its a boxer, how often do you even hear a V-4 in an automobile? Outboard motors are the first example I could think of. Its simply a class of engine to itself, so it sounds unlike any inline or V6 or V8 or rotary or whatever other engine configuration you run. It has nothing to do with lifters, they are radically different across the production span.. pre-82 non turbo models had solid lifters instead of hydraulic, which is totally different technology that SOUNDS totally different, but the exhaust note still has commonality. thats all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik litchy Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 personally, I LOVE the sound of a well built honda engine being driven at threshold... its like no other engine on earth, really... ..but the PROBLEM is, for every well built and tuned honda engine on the planet, theres about twenty poorly built and tuned honda engines, with godawful exhausts on them that try to make it sound like either a big I6 or a rotary engine... instead of a hi-po four. For every decently set up honda engine on the STREET (most of the good ones are in race cars) the "craptastic" number is probably more like 100. So don't sell honda short because they sold cars to people who were ignorant as for the "why" on the sound, its simple: its a boxer, how often do you even hear a V-4 in an automobile? Outboard motors are the first example I could think of. Its simply a class of engine to itself, so it sounds unlike any inline or V6 or V8 or rotary or whatever other engine configuration you run. It has nothing to do with lifters, they are radically different across the production span.. pre-82 non turbo models had solid lifters instead of hydraulic, which is totally different technology that SOUNDS totally different, but the exhaust note still has commonality. thats all. i disagree hondas sound nothing like the chainsaw-cutting-through-a-tin-roof of a poorly muffled rotary. speaking of v4 id love a Honda RC45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beataru Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Anyways, What truly makes the Subaru sound that we know is the un-Even header Lengths, If you get an Equal lenth header, It will make it sound different, almost but not quite, like any other 4 banger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 i disagree hondas sound nothing like the chainsaw-cutting-through-a-tin-roof of a poorly muffled rotary. speaking of v4 id love a Honda RC45 We disagree on nothing; I only said that it sounds like that its what these kids are trying for.. either a Z or a Mazda sound. maybe its just an old skool jap car bias showing up In any case it usually sounds like crap. Nothing will turn my head quicker than a "right" sounding honda exhaust though.. I am always guilty for snapping around like that at a honda, but when theyre built well they scream with a note that begs to be revved higher. It isn't my favorite, it is just something I appreciate. A great motor is a great motor, even if its in a pinto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubastreet Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Phiz is right it's cos you fire two bangs down one header and then two down the other. There's different amounts of scavenging depending on whether there's a charge running down the header or not, and therefore a different sound. I used to have a 2.0 V4 - in a mk1 ford transit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesFox Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 how about no-lenght headers? the motor will still sound the same with no Y-pipe at all, open ports, but more like a misfire and running underwater. the valves and the siamese ports make a blip-blurp sound as the firing order fires both piston on the same bank almost simultaneously alternately. that is why blown exhaust gaskets sound like a misfire or the car has a harley type sound to it. Anyways, What truly makes the Subaru sound that we know is the un-Even header Lengths, If you get an Equal lenth header, It will make it sound different, almost but not quite, like any other 4 banger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s'ko Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I have heard it called the boxer growl. It's funny b/c whenever I have wrenching days at my place, you always know when there is a Soob driving up and down my street looking for the place b/c of the growl. I usually go to a Friday night meet w/some WRX's I wonder how it would sound to have 10 boxer motors all revving at the same time. BW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoyale Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Yeah i love the sound of the Boxer engine!! Nothing else like it!! But it's still werid even brand new Boxers like in a Outback or Forester they all have a tick!! And that's what makes a subaru, A subaru! I think another resin Boxer's are so easy to notis is because of the displacement! It give's you that "Blrum-blrum" on the turbo's ones! Hey BTW has anyone read the spec's for the new WRX in Motor-trend?? It say's the engine type is a Flat-4!? Is that a type-o?? What happend to the Horazontaly opposed??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloyale Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Hey BTW has anyone read the spec's for the new WRX in Motor-trend?? It say's the engine type is a Flat-4!? Is that a type-o?? What happend to the Horazontaly opposed??? Flat, boxer, horizontally opposed, pancake. All just terms for engines with 2 cylinder banks in the same plane and a crank between them.(although *pancake* ussually reffers to a specific model of VW flat-4) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 The er27 from the xt6 has Flat-6 on the engine cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoyale Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Oh! Really! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoyale Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Learning more every day:banana: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucky92 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 The er27 from the xt6 has Flat-6 on the engine cover. actually:rolleyes: in small letters it says six cylinder 2.7 liter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloyale Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 The er27 from the xt6 has Flat-6 on the engine cover. And 6 Cyl Legacies, SVX, and now Tribeca, say H-6. Some JDM motors say "boxer". It's all the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 The early er27 did anyways. I've seen them say both h6 and flat 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 actually:rolleyes: in small letters it says six cylinder 2.7 liter Showoff... LOL, I was gonna use yours as an exanple till I saw that... I'm searching to find any proof I'm not crazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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