Why do our cars sound like they do?

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Ginny in Denver-ish
78 300SD, 265K (mine)

No plugs means pistons squeeze till the fuel explodes. That plus prechambers and cast iron blocks, heads all contributes to the famous and forever loved diesel sound.

So what we hear is the echo of the combustion?

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Ginny in Denver-ish
78 300SD, 265K (mine)

It's a nice, solid sound that I've always loved. I used to drive tractors and heavy machinery on a farm and in construction, and I love the powerful sound of diesels. I have no idea why they sound like that, though.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I have squirrels working in shipping containers with sewing machines under my hood. dunno about you.

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

I just love the sound of them. If there was ever a sound of strength, dependability and durability, that's surely it, a Mercedes Benz diesel engine.


Not everyone thinks so. "Automobile" magazine, I think it was described the sound of a Reagan era 1982 300SD as "clacking like a basket of castanets, as it crawls on its hands and knees to 60 mph"

We're gonna have about 25 of 'em together on the Northern California spring Diesel drive, next month. That will be REALLY cool.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

2 days ago I had a friend drive my cars around the block, I just wonted to hear the sound of my diesels while they were pulling away and coming back home.
1970 220D & 1980 300SD
the 220D is the loudest of my 2 cars, pulling in to a gas station every body turns around to see wait in the hell is making all that noise, I love it.

Well, just get rid of the ricer you've got in there, Jim!

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

The sound is actually the explosion from the spontaneous combustion, heard through the block, head, and exhaust.

Sounds like power to me! (Except for the Ford rattlejoke)

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

99 W210 E300 Turbo Diesel, chipped, DPF/Converter Delete. Still needs EGR Delete, 232K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Gone and still missed...1982 w123 300D, 1991 w124 300D

Word up.

LOL

Why am I not seeing an advertisement right now, at the bottom of this page for Mercedes Benz Diesel cell phone Ringtones?

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Subaru Outback > snow!!!

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Oh, I didn't know it snowed where you are. Well, how 'bout one of those nifty diesel G wagens?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

i always thought the diesel sounded manly... don't ask me. but sound for sound. i think the diesel sounds more powerful then the big block in my Charger...

The 1.5L in my Toyota with a Cherry Bomb on it sounds powerful, or should i say just as powerful as the Charger. but we all know its not.

the sound of power is all an illusion. but, that said. something about the diesel sound makes me think power, i think its in my genetics like the sound of a stake on a fire makes me hungry.

the Mercedes diesel specifically has its own sound. I've been in crowded parking lots and i can hear a Mercedes diesel from hundreds of yards away.

when i got my 240D i was in love. mainly because the 4 cylinder sounds exactly like the 4 cylinder in my dads John Deere. and you know what the say "Nothing runs like a Deere"

suppose thats true because nothing runs on the 240 anymore.

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Spark ignition begins at one point and moves out at (relatively) constant speed. Compression ignition starts, well, where ever there is fuel.

Perhaps better said in other words??

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1987 300D (230,000 mi on a #14 head-watching the temp gauge and keeping the ghost in the machine)
Raleigh NC - Home of deep fried sushi!

From what Ive heard, these engines make 3 sounds when running.

-The diesel clatter at idle. Doesn't do much for me, but I don't mind it at all. And it really is a distinctive clatter, just like a cummins has its own special clatter. I'm not sure but I think the clatter is caused by the fuels forceful explosion actauly pinging on the cylinder walls

-The deep, thumping noise. You know, the noise of the diesel. Love it. I guess its probably the exhaust

-The subtle "spritzing" (or tapping) noise. Im guessing its combustion, but I like to think of it as injectors spritzing fuel into the cylinders, even though theres no way that is actauly loud




The sound of my diesel just reminds me of power, reliablilty, and the fact that if the world blows up I can drive anywhere on strained cow fat

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1981 300SD 512k OM603