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I'll admit it didn't sound too good at part throttle, but when he got on it, it reved fast, and sounded pretty good. The ticking sound could have been pebbles kicked up, but it sounded like something inside the car to me.

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This is not a grocery hauler girls. It's a race car, and it sounds exactly how it's supposed to. It's not tuned to bog around a damn parking lots like a pussy whipped Honda civic. It's meant to run WFO, and you'll notice when it does, it sounds like a devil kraken. 

 

Non-enthusiasts.

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This is not a grocery hauler girls. It's a race car, and it sounds exactly how it's supposed to. It's not tuned to bog around a damn parking lots like a pussy whipped Honda civic. It's meant to run WFO, and you'll notice when it does, it sounds like a devil kraken. 

 

Non-enthusiasts.

 

True, but non-enthusiasts do rate engine sound as important as good brakes.  :lol:  Can't WOT around town all day. That 'race car' sounds like a slipping clutch.... and where's all the rubber marks? Even Ken leaves tire marks.

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I say its as much a race car as the crapped out eclipse on the beginning of the film, or the RX rear parked next to it. 

 

The exhaust notes are crushing the microphone on the camera so who knows what the motor really sounds like. 

 

My hunch is this is a really badly modified Bimmer and the video was titled in an egregious manner. 

 

Paradime I know you know an actual race car has to have a full range of throttle use.. Not just WFO throttle.... This car would die out in a 90deg turn should there be a group up of cars then.

 

 

 

 

 

No HONDA homo :D

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I'm a non enthusiast. I hear the badass. But the video sound is messing it up. You need to have a bud shoot from the sidewalk to give a better depiction. The cam is aggressive as fuck so it will not sound all that smooth putting around. I presume E85 has a unique quality in the muffler and that muffler manufacturers are not lining up to design one appropriately.

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True, but non-enthusiasts do rate engine sound as important as good brakes.  :lol:  Can't WOT around town all day. That 'race car' sounds like a slipping clutch.... and where's all the rubber marks? Even Ken leaves tire marks.

Maybe no rubber marks, but it was fishtailing and going side ways more than once.

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Maybe no rubber marks, but it was fishtailing and going side ways more than once.

That's a U turn. :lol:

 

How can you tell no roll bar, view is just out the front? Could be a 4 or 6 point behind the camera.

 

True. Nothing in glass reflection or rear view mirror.

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No doubt this B'mer needs more tuning, but the vid was called a "TEST" run not a track day. Even with the sputtering at low rev, the car wakes right the fuck up when given throttle. You guys are right though, it's not a sweet polite daily driver, and I totally understand aggressive loud race cars makes some people uncomfortable. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare anyone with this.

 

 

Maybe we need to start a REAL ENGINE PORN thread, because clearly, it takes a real enthusiast to appreciate this kind of rough stuff. 

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Dick

It's not his fault. I've witnessed this several times with old men losing their sight to macular degeneration. They feel out of control and as if life is over for them because they can't function in the world as they once did. This sense of a loss of control intimidates them and they lash out at the world around them. It's pretty understandable actually, it's a kind of self fulfilling prophesy, "I feel useless so I will make you treat me that way."

 

To be precise he is scared.

 

He deserves our pity not scorn. 

 

RIP Old Ron.

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