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Does your car have a "voice"?

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Does your car have a "voice"?

My MGB is my second LBC, our Mini was the first. With the Mini, I soon discovered that if I listened carefully, I could hear how the car was doing, sort of like it was "tellng" me how it was running. Certain rpm ranges have a different vibration / sound, etc. If everything is tuned right, it sounds different than if the carb is slightly out of adjustment and a different sound if the timing is slightly off. The MGB is very similar, but it's "voice" is "deeper". Of course the MGB has 1800 cc's where the Mini only has 850... :smile:

Have any of you experienced anything similar? I have to think I'm not the only one. At least that's what I told the nice young men in the clean white coats when they came to take me away!! LOL :crazy:
 
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Silverghost said:
Have any of you experienced anything similar?
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Definitely, my motorcycle has a more contented sound to the engine after I've had a good run through some twisty canyons. If I putter around town, the exhaust has a harsher tone. It's telling me "Come on, DO something already!"
 
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Mine is always cursing at me.
 
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I not only hear it in my cars but also at work. My last job I could hear problems on a machine while it ran, sometimes from across the work floor. At my new job, CNC operator, I am starting to hear how the cutters are holding up.

Then again maybe I just speak machine language, like woodworkers can see in wood what others can't.
 
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This was a real issue with people comin' to th' dealership...

When someone would "short-shift" an Alfa or a Lotus I would TRY to explain "Sympatico with th' EQUIPMENT".
 
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My car talks to me.
My boss talks to me.
My wife talks to me.
:crazyeyes: <span style="font-weight: bold">It's not good</span>
 
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BabaKahawa said:
My car talks to me.
My boss talks to me.
My wife talks to me.
:crazyeyes: <span style="font-weight: bold">It's not good</span>
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Ah! but are you listening? :devilgrin: :jester:

Stuart. :cheers:
 
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Ohmmmm, Ohmmmm...I think it has to do with vibrational harmonics and being in tune with them :wink: (or not, if you don't "hear the voices"!). Listen well and ye shall hear! Turn on, Tune in, Harmonize! :devilgrin:
 
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My Midget definately has a voice and commmunicates constantly :driving:. Our new car doesn't.... Everything is far too quiet and insulated.. If it has a voice, no one is gonna hear it....It communicates with lights and symbols... :crazyeyes:
 
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scoutll said:
My Midget definately has a voice and commmunicates constantly :driving:. Our new car doesn't.... Everything is far too quiet and insulated.. If it has a voice, no one is gonna hear it....It communicates with lights and symbols... :crazyeyes:
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I know what you mean, Bryan. New cars are smooooth and quiet, hardly cars in the old sense of the word.

Having an LBC to drive is great. YOu can hear, smell and feel the car. Valve tappets clicking, the smell of gas and oil; the gearbox whining, softly.

Like it should be. :yesnod:
 
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Yes. Maniacal laughter.

In all seriousness, yes, though I've never thought of it as a voice. Rather, I've viewed it as a cacophony of whines, rattles, pops, whirrs, clunks, clicks, squeals (that safety device devised by Triumph to inform the driver that the brakes have been successfully engaged), swishes, thumps and squeaks, all wrapped around the exhaust burble. But yes, any change in that collection of sounds and I hear it instantly, especially in the TR-250, given that I drive it the most and have had it the longest.
 
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silverghost, by the sound of my bj7's exhaust note without looking at the guage i can tell to a degree and pound what the engine temperature and oil pressure is. :yesnod:
 
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