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Originally Posted by rick130

Most of that old iron sounds amazing, but so did the V8, V10 and V12 F1 engines of the 90's.
A pre war straight 8 Fiat GP car was doing demo runs at Adelaide in '91. (I think it was?)

It absolutely howled and sounded better IMO than the W196 Merc that Fangio was driving.
It had me transfixed.

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The exhaust note of all IC engines is affected by the ignition sequence and hence the exhaust pulse sequence. Probably more noticeable on engines that have an exhaust manifold, as compared with an aircraft engine that just has stub exhaust pipes.