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Offline Gigantor

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Engine makes sweet music
« on: May 26, 2015, 05:21:33 AM »
On hard acceleration, the engine sounds like a F1 engine. Does this
beautiful music come from the engine or stock muffler?

I'm wondering if replacing the stock muffler would change the tune.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 05:35:42 AM »
Quote from: Gigantor on May 26, 2015, 05:21:33 AM
On hard acceleration, the engine sounds like a F1 engine. Does this
beautiful music come from the engine or stock muffler?

Both, and the intake.  The intake supplies more sound that I would have expected.  And if you mess with the secondaries (flashing the ECU or pulling the flies) the intake gets considerably louder.

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I'm wondering if replacing the stock muffler would change the tune.

Anything you change will likely change what it sounds like.  Good or bad change- that is in the ear of the beholder.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 05:38:02 AM »
Thanks, I have had many sport bikes, but I have to say this bike sounds the best
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 03:52:35 PM »
Quote from: Gigantor on May 26, 2015, 05:38:02 AM
Thanks, I have had many sport bikes, but I have to say this bike sounds the best

A large inline 4 does sound nice compared to smaller 4's or any kind of 2's.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2015, 05:45:51 PM »
It's the engine 8). At full tilt, the engine makes A LOT more noise than a stock exhaust. In fact, sitting on the bike, you don't hear the stock exhaust at all. But yes, it's beautiful music indeed ;D. That's why I don't like an exhaust louder than the engine. The same at the most. And that's precisely what the TBR with the larger dB killer does.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2015, 08:46:50 PM »
My Dirty Grrrl, a 2009, makes a pleasing whislting noise just before the exhaust begins to wail!   8)

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Some of it, I believe, is intake noise.
Pulling hard from a tall gear with large throttle openings gives me a sound remeniscent of a four barrel carb on a V8.   :D

I've toyed with the idea of removing the resonators from the intake tract just for WTH.   :P
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2015, 08:56:59 PM »
Gigantor,

Before your next ride, when you start 'er up, take a trip to the front of your machine.   :)

Pretend you're making sure all the lights are working.   ;)

Put an ear near one of the air intakes on the nose. 
You really don't have to get that close.   ;)

That's the sound of a hungry machine and it wants you to twist it's tail!   ;D

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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2015, 09:28:03 PM »
Quote from: Gigantor on May 26, 2015, 05:21:33 AM
On hard acceleration, the engine sounds like a F1 engine. Does this
beautiful music come from the engine or stock muffler?

I'm wondering if replacing the stock muffler would change the tune.

I love the intake sound on the C14.  I almost wish I didn't wear earplugs to retain my perfect hearing so I could enjoy it more.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2015, 03:33:42 AM »
Quote from: AZ-ZG on May 27, 2015, 08:46:50 PM
My Dirty Grrrl, a 2009, makes a pleasing whislting noise just before the exhaust begins to wail!   8)

Area P slip-on.  http://areapnolimits.com/home.html   :thumbs:

Some of it, I believe, is intake noise.
Pulling hard from a tall gear with large throttle openings gives me a sound remeniscent of a four barrel carb on a V8.   :D

I've toyed with the idea of removing the resonators from the intake tract just for WTH.   :P

What resonators are you speaking of?
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2015, 07:18:41 AM »
Quote from: gPink on May 28, 2015, 03:33:42 AM
What resonators are you speaking of?

The little "boxes" that attach to the air intake tubes.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2015, 07:52:30 AM »
Little mufflers?
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2015, 08:12:52 AM »
Basically. They are generally used to "tune" the sound. Some intakes sound like a kazoo without them.
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Re: Engine makes sweet music
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2015, 08:47:28 PM »
Exactly!

Though I couldn't imagine the 14 sounding like a kazoo!   :D

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