Not necessary, friend.
Just enjoying a great discussion with my comrades.
Taken in the humor as intended.
So now, lets talk engine sounds, Vroom Vroom.
I got a thrill listening to my 128 with a 79 Strada at red line+ but also have come to enjoy the soft hum of the electric in my X when I am putting a load on it coming out of a turn or just accelerating.
There is sound and there is noise.
I have twenty six inch glass packs on my FJ40 with a 350 Chevy engine.
It has a throaty rumble up to about 2000 rpm but passed that it starts getting loud.
Not that rappy pipe sound that some of the good old boys around here seams to like, just your average every day loud.
Other than Fiats I have had Chevy's that sounded good when cruising but have always thought older Ford V8's with duel exhaust had the best sound.
The rare Ford in my family was a 63 with a fairly stock 289 and flow masters my son and I fixed up for him when he was 16 y/o that made many guys think it was a bigger engine than it was.
The 1500 Strada I had went through some tonal changes while I had it.
I drove it the first year or so with the stock 2bbl but wanted duel Web's but had no money.
I did have a big 1 3/4 S U that I adapted to the stock intake manifold.
It worked pretty good but I never got the proper needle taper so it had a flat spot when accelerating in the higher rpm's.
The sound was interesting though.
It is hard to explain. It was pretty much Fiat when driving but when you revved it or let off the gas slowing down it sounded like it was going to suck the air cleaner through the intake. The slider piston would flutter making it do that. It didn't seem to add or subtract to performance but sounded kind of mean.
I only ran the S U for a couple of weeks and then went back to the 2bbl.
My next endeavor was two 2bbl's. I made a manifold to accommodate 2 datra 32's and ran them for many years until I got rid of the car.
It was kind of like having a 4bbl.
I first had separate air cleaners and the engine was louder than normal at highway speed so made a larger one piece air cleaner that fit over both carbs and that brought it down closer to normal interior noise.
When all the butterfly's were open at 8000 rpm it sounded like an Indy car.
I drove the car, with those carbs, coast to coast several times with no problems and got as high as 40 mpg if I kept the tack steady at around 60 mph.
If you haven't figured it out I am a shade tree first class but have managed to do some weird but functional stuff.