Ditto on the "clean" sound. I've never heard another engine that sounded so well tuned as the rotary. I mean, tap the throttle and it's just quick and clean....love it!

The Honda guys have no room to talk about the sound. They all sound like crap. Hate to break it to them but ANYONE driving a V8 is gonna laugh at both the rotary AND the 4cyl.

I installed headers and monza exhaust on mine. Asked my Dad the other day what he thinks it sounded like and he said, "It doesn't really sound like ANYTHING else out there." I said, "Perfect! That's exactly what I wanted!!!!"

 

Those ricers sound like bad kazoos to me. My '82 GSL has the original exhaust system except for an aftermarket catalytic converter (rodded out). Its fairly free flowing. One of my coworkers commented that it sounded like a bunch of angry bees.

I "cut my teeth" on V8's. I do miss the sound of a V8. But after 22 years with a rotary I don't want to go back.

 

Totally! That gurgling, worbling sound is embarassing, or at least I'd be embarassed to drive something that sounded like that. Piston engines also don't feel right. They have what feels like a lot fo low end torque, but then it all goes away as the revs climb. That feels alien to me. It doesn't sound right either.

As for my four port 13Bs, the sound is distinctive of a rotary with direct fire; the best sound there is.

 

I sat in my FB last night an listened to the whine...

Both my cars whine, but one is a Turbo whine...

I was appriciating the difference between the two...

 

my car is stock but im about to put a magnaflow on it,Will it be really loud?I travel alot and i dont want to hear my exhaust over the radio and when im cruzin on the hwy im at about 4k rpm (btw thats not bad cruzing at 4k for like 2 hrs is it?)
The magnaflow is not the grape fruit launcher verison it looks like the RB.

 

you'll be fine at 4k as long as the car is moving. standing still, the cats will get pretty damn hot.

 

is it normal for the tach to be at 4k when im doing 80?

 

I love the sound of my car (except for the rough idle and exhaust leak). So deep sounding. Its very nice. Not too loud, and not too quiet.

 

I love the sound of my car. Its so deep sounding. I love it. And the whine, its nothing. Not loud enough to really notice it. I have an e-fan though, and I know that the clutch fan contributes to the whine in a rotary. But I love the sound of my car. I bet once I get rid of this rough idle I will like it even more.

 

12a turbo's sound hella sick.idle....bap bap bap bap, drive off slow and here that turbine rumbling then let off the gas again, bap bap bap.

 

yes

 

yeah i ride around town at 4k cuz i like the sound, there are alot of hondas i mean every1 has a honda i am the only 1 with a fixed up fb in my town and i try everyone i see but i leave big backfires and i havent had 1 ricer honda try 2 race me not even rev there engine sometimes i come up next to them in 4th or 3rd and rev it 2 redline then drop the cltch in 2nd and peal out next to them then backfire. its fukin great sound i just have a rb header with a custom connection to the stock new exhaust saving for a high flow muff and silencer

 

even better than the rotary scream is the rotary/BOV scream

 

The 20B has been known to emit an almost V12-like scream. I guess I'll know first-hand... eventually.

 

an mp3 is worth a 1000 words, lol my 7 when it had an exhaust leak...

http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/...src=bc&.view=l

Note: play them with volume up

 

here's more singing: http://www.redhavana.net/shack/fb-exhaust.mp3

this sound actually belongs to BIG J MIXALOT's fb, and this was before i added the header, so his is LOUDER!

DO YOU LIKE THE EXHAUST RATTLE? I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

 

wow where was the mic when you recorded that?

 

The "splatter your ear drums" rotary is ridiculous. Worse than rice Hondas. It smacks of tacky lack of taste as well as stupidly in performance.

 

about 10ft in back of the car and about 5 feet to the left.

 

cool. My laptop was in the passanger seat.

 

The two best sounding engines in history are the Ferarri V12s and the Mazda rotaries. Hell of a combo.

 

in the mouring going to work, ill ram it up to 6k and let off the throttle, POP POP POP POP, so loud that ur ears ring, im sure my neighbors love me too death.

 

Out on the highway, where I spend most of my time, my 85 GSL sounds like a rocket, like the space shuttle accelerating into space. I love the sound, it's one of the main reasons I'm addicted to rotaries.

Ray

 

http://www.lsdrift.com/videos/OH%20YAH.mpg

that's mine..way too loud.

 

dude lol mines louder lol But I love it.