Patrick
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You shouldn't drill your airbox. Very bad thing to do.
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Stu
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Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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The Subaru gets its sound from having the horizontally opposed boxer 4 engine. It has two heads, each with, 8 valves and 2 camshafts. Making it, 4 cylinder, 16 valve, quad cam. Two heads on each side. Very similar to a car with a V configuration but instead of being on an angle "/" the pistons are flat "_" with the crank in the middle.
The main reason they have the noise they do though is because of the way the engine is with two heads, the exhaust headers (manifolds) that come from each side of the engine have to be unequal lengths to get to the same place at the turbo (which is situated on the left of the engine, quite high up, so the exhaust header on the right of the engine has to travel further than the exhaust header on the left)
Thats why lots of tuned Scoobies lose the classic noise as one of the things to do to boost performance is to use equal legnth headers.
Not easy to follow, but I hope it helps, as you dont know these sort of things unless someone tells you or you read about it.............and I reckon all those people who just took the p*ss out of someone for asking a question they dont know, didnt know why Scoobies have that sound either! Easy to say "its because they have flat 4 engines"...........but that doesnt explain dick all does it eh?!!!
Stu 
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J da Silva
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It is easy to say, but when you tell them, they still don't listen
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ed
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Your car never sounded like a scooby ever. You thought it did, you thought it sounded nice, but I guess you have never heard your car when your going down the street while you rev it up - it will probably sound crap, a load of noise, but no rumble.
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Greg_M
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 bunch of chavs
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
Your car never sounded like a scooby ever. You thought it did, you thought it sounded nice, but I guess you have never heard your car when your going down the street while you rev it up - it will probably sound crap, a load of noise, but no rumble.
what the hell u talking about! what do u know!
i know exactly what my car sounds like...
ive heard it driven down the road many times!
it isnt a typical cherry bomb with nasty load roar noise! it was nice deep and rumbly a bit like a scooby...which is why i asked the question in the first place!!
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ed
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Keep on dreamin', maybe it'll come true.
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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thats funny.... coz im not dreaming
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J da Silva
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It's very obvious you won't agree with each other. Let's talk some facts shall we?
The scooby rumble, is caused by it's engine design, corsa engines don't have this design, therefore no scooby rumble comes from a corsa engine, wether you stick subaru stickers on it or 'RB5' graphics allover your car IT WILL NEVER SOUND LIKE A SCOOBY, never has neither, you just noticed a slight resemblence that's all.
[Edited on 09-09-04 by VenomTurbo]
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topshot_2k
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scooby sound lol
sounds shite anyway R34 is the sound you want
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J da Silva
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mr2 turbo twin scroll turbo chatter is what u want
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ed
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You don't want an stupid gay noises coming from a Corsa. It's a Corsa, a 1.6 Corsa at that, mothing special, just a 1600 16v shoppig cart.
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neoquip
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you need one of these.. its the only way you will get a flat four boxer engine sound
its my old car 
[Edited on 09-09-2004 by neoquip]
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blundey
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cool looking car! where did you get the fotopic.net decal from?
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
You don't want an stupid gay noises coming from a Corsa. It's a Corsa, a 1.6 Corsa at that, mothing special, just a 1600 16v shoppig cart.
will you please stop acting like a prick. If the 1.6 engine is good enough for westfields to race with, its good enough to sit in a corsa.
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Cybermonkey
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and im with monkey magic on this one, my corsa used to sound like an impreze turbo when given full on the gas pedal, quite a few people commented on the nice rumbly sound emitted.
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Siberia
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i know the sound ya's are talking about but lts be honest its not exactly a scooby sound now is it.......
what ya want is an Rover sd1 3.5litre v8 sound.... ya would sit there reving it all day it sounds so beautifulll............
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Stu
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Y'know throttle bodies can sometimes give you the noise your after. Get the injectors to fire in pairs aswell!
My old 2.1 16 valve corsa ran throttle bodies and that had its own noise especially at 8000rpm. Not raspy, but deep and low, almost like the car was misfiring a bit.
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22B
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I was just about to say about the flat four throb comes frome having unequal length headers, I know what these guys mean when they say there car sounds like a scooby as it does, my mum has MY00 UK turbo with prodrive performance pack which gives the car a hike in performance and gives the car the noise it should come with standard, and she even commented on how similar it sounds(being traded in for a Golf Tdi 150, but i get to drive it this saturday!)
to my Corsa sport 1.4 16V, which has a drilled airbox and no restrictors
[Edited on 10-09-2004 by 22B]
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Siberia
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quote:
Originally posted by 22B
I was just about to say about the flat four throb comes frome having unequal length headers, I know what these guys mean when they say there car sounds like a scooby as it does, my mum has MY00 UK turbo with prodrive performance pack which gives the car a hike in performance and gives the car the noise it should come with standard, and she even commented on how similar it sounds(being traded in for a Golf Tdi 150, but i get to drive it this saturday!)
to my Corsa sport 1.4 16V, which has a drilled airbox and no restrictors
[Edited on 10-09-2004 by 22B]
she sounds like a cool mother......
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22B
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she is indeed, and i drove the beast last night, only round the local carpark but in 1st gear its frightening the acceleration, made my car seem even slower than it is
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Stu
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This is the best way to get the noise your after...............320bhp of STI boxer 4 blowing through an HKS Super Drager!!!!
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