Question about the F1 sound
 

Ive been trying to search for the answer but i haven't come up with the exact answer yet. What makes the cars sound high pitched like f1 cars, some say its a high revving engine yet ive seen similar displacement engines with the same red line and same amount of cylinders sound completely opposite. Can someone please clarify this one for me and also tell me what engines can produce that sound.

Redline for F1 cars is at 18,000 rpm and if you multiply that by 8 cylinders going out through straight pipes... You get amazing sound!

Where are you finding engines with similar displacement (2.4liter) with similar revs (18,000)?

I didn't mean engines similar to f1 cars but For example an f430 engine red lines at 8500k it's a 4.3L and a v8, sounds like an f1 when flies by. A BMW m3 engine is a v8 that red lines at 8300k I believe with 4.0L but sounds nothing like an f1.

Just run open exhaust ports.

In production vehicles the exhaust setup creates a lot of the sound. F1 cars all sound the way they do because of the super high revs and open exhaust. They're all the same setup so they sound the same.

It's the high rev's, cylinders, engine components, head design, transmission, exhaust setup etc that give it that sound. F-1 cars are on a whole other planet when it comes to drivetrain component. I personally think the LF-A is the closest production car to sound like an F-1 car.

Doesn't sound like an F1 car to me.

The F430 sounds like an F1 car at 8500 rpm with an open exhaust to me :roflpuke2:

As stated, EVERYTHING about an engine determines how it sounds, including the exhaust on production cars. This is why a 351 sounds like a mean drum-roll and an LS1 (346ci) sounds like a machine-gun in a trashcan.

Firing order, crankpin arrangement (plane), valve arrangement, just to name a few not mentioned.

Mike

So basically you can't make your engine sound like that unless it comes from factory like that?

So whose going to be the first to do an F1 engine swap? :roflpuke2:

That would be so cool, but I don't want to have to clean my shorts every time I go for a drive. :eek:

since a part of it is engine revving high, how can you make the engine rev higher, as in past 8500k for the Z. Im sure you would need new engine parts to be able to handle that. Also does the speed of the rev matter to the sound at all or no?

Why would anyone want an F1 engine is my question. It would perform like *** anywhere but the circle-track.