Nonsense Thread

[varg]

Merry Christmas

MrBurgundy I strapped a Christmas tree to my E30 before it was cool (this pic is from 2017)



Yes I did pick it up and bring it home this way, for a few years in fact. This year I picked it up in my wagon.

[MrBurgundy]

The Z06 uses a flat plane compared to the base's cross plane, which really adds to the sound department.

Sound is important. Def a deal breaker for me personally when deciding if a car is worth adding to the garage.

Also, fuck this Christmas tree strapped to the roof trend. Very cringe.

Anyways, merry Christmas.

[E30 Wagen]

I like the C8 Z06. Top Gear's appraisal of the design as "my first super car" is pretty accurate but I wouldn't say it's awful looking. I'd have one, just no wing and with the silver spider design wheels, maybe in black with the full carbon package. What I don't get is why they didn't just commit to a normal hardtop version next to the convertible. The square steering wheel would also have to go.

[varg]

I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole looking at the C8 Z06 exhaust, looked at some photos, and I was right, no x-pipe. It does sound better with an x-pipe, as shown in this video. It brings out the higher harmonics which is what you want with that high revving engine. But it sounds a lot better in race mode stock in this video than what I hear around here. Must just be killing the higher frequency sound when it's not in race mode. The X-pipe does not make as big of a difference here as it does in V6 cars though, equal length headers and an X-pipe are the killer app for most engines. I bet you could even make an E46 M3 sound good if you made it equal length from exhaust valve to merge or X-pipe. The stock E46 M3 exhaust has an H-pipe IIRC and I know is very unequal length and that's why they sound like pure hissing 2005 tuner boy civic rasp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKuLewT1rNQ

I've gone on an autismal tangent about exhaust sound over the past year or so since building my most powerful car yet and realizing I just can't use the power. I'm now convinced that I should focus on tuning sound as well as performance next time around because if a car sounds great you can always enjoy the sound, but when a car has 500hp+ you only get to enjoy that for a few seconds on an empty road and that's it. I have stupid tires on my E34 and I'm still traction limited on medium boost, and I have a 2.93 LSD in that thing! I haven't even tapped into its full potential yet by putting the B58 coils in it so I can go past 17psi of boost without missing. With 20psi+ this thing is going to be scary. I got lucky with my E30 and E34 and in building my exhausts to flow and be pretty quiet I killed the nasty I6 rasp that you hear with absolute hogs like the post V8 era M3s, despite the rapid spool headers being far from equal length.

[2mAn]

I heard one the other day before I saw it.. sounded great then I looked and saw it, and was ... impressed.

Could never own one though