Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: gathermewool
Originally Posted By: NHGUY
4 cylinders sound very raspy and noisy,like a BLAT.
6s,particularly inline 6s sound very agricultural.
Nothing sounds like an 8.
Wonder what a 3 cylinder GEO sounds like? Must be like a blender.
Search youtube for some wrx and STI sound clips. Not all 4-bangers are the same.
FWIW, I used to own a Focus ST with the same motor. The exhaust on that sounded pretty good - a little bit of throatiness, but not obnoxious or loud on the highway. Besides a Civic SI (K20Z3,) it's the best sounding 4-cyl N/A exhaust I've heard.
But I DO
disagree on the SI (or ANY Honda 4 banger for that matter),
regardless of exhaust/mods.
I don't mean an SI with a modified exhaust - they sound terrible, just like the majority of other civics with modified exhausts (read: [censored] cannons.) It always upsets me when I hear an SI go by with a [censored] cannon, since the stock exhaust flows well and sounds nice.
I HATED how little power and torque the little thing had, but it did sound pretty cool. It took forever to get to redline, but it sure sounded like it was doing something when vtec kicked in!