Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Bangs and pops on the over run

Two posts mentioning these as an attraction of the exhaust system - but why? What is the attraction of letting unburnt fuel into the exhaust so you can hear a set of mini explosions. Surely its better to use the fuel to go faster.

When I had an F type, the exhaust was engineered just to make this noise. Do people think it makes the car sound like a race car? Do they pop and bang? Never noticed it in F1.

Pops and bangs is juvenile and silly. Completely pointless look at me noises

Yes, in the past we would have been embarrassed and gone home to do some much needed adjustments.

Agreed its childish fun but my M3W always puts a smile on my face when it pops and bangs

As a 70+ juvenile when out on the open road with not a soul within miles, the pops and bangs are very much a part of my enjoyment and sense of interaction with a machine of the type which I spent much of my life in, around and mostly under, the smells it creates along with ALL the noises, stains on my clothes and occasional skinned knuckles and many many memories over the years is so very much of the whole experience for me, and ever has been.

As a motoring enthusiast my ears have ever pricked up at the sound of something interesting, other than those likely to be emitted by some form of a mundanemobile. As for the undoubted efficiency and almost silent power output of high performance electric vehicles... Just not my idea of an involving drive at road legal speeds.. Each to their own of course... and I can well understand where an overly noisy exhaust can be a real nuisance to neighbours and the like. Fortunately my old +8 purrs like a kitten unless I step on the LOUD pedal, or partially jump off it while in the process of attempting rev matching when dropping a few gears in a hurry, just the sort of aural pleasure I get from watching vids of the Goodwood weekend etc.etc.etc.

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Too right George, no desire to grow up here

Howard is a prime candidate for the latest milk float, not a petrol head at all

You know it's over when you don't look around for the source of a nice ICE crackling away when you hear it and your wife knows conversation is futile until you have identified it..

Do you own / run a Morgan?

Surely if you do, its a redundant question........

As my hearing deteriorates it is great to hear something

Of course it's part of the fun. Just love the Alpine tunnels and if you give it some serious wellie it flames as well. Who wants to grow up.

Just to be fair....

On my first trip to the LM 24 hrs I had the good fortune to walk around the rear of the pit area while the race was in progress with a German Ford development engineer, as we stopped at the rear of the Audi tented area that they used to extend their parts storage, I noted rear subframes with gearbox suspension brakes etc fully assembled therein... and was told it takes less time to swap the set up than mess around trying to fit individual items. At the time I also commented on the lack of sound as the Audi`s approached through the esses to the Dunlop Bridge... compared to the flame spitting and roaring Corvettes which I very much enjoyed. Again my guide explained that not only were the Corvettes wasting fuel, which in a 24 hr race could make the difference betwixt winning or not, and as for the the exhaust popping and banging, it was subjecting their exhaust systems to unnecessary explosions and vibrations which may reduce relability and never more so in a 24 hr race... Can`t argue against the logic of a race engineer..