I love the sound of a FJ, but this...

[pdxfj]

Is in a league all it's own.. A Rolls-Merlin sounds good, but to me this is the best sounding engine of it's time.

Messerschmitt ME109 Trailer 2

[1tinindian]

Although I could debate you over which aircraft sounds the best, I will agree with you, that piston powered aircraft were a leader in high performance, and I have never been able to get enough of the WW2 types.
Truely awesome power and sounds!

[andyb]

That raises some fun questions about what the best sounding engines are...

-Lamborghini's classic V12.  They sound tempermental and crabby when cold, not unlike an old superbike, but there is that amazing sense that things are happening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48ecCtbP5iY#

-Turbo Busa's make a noise that goes from "okay, it's a bike" to "coming to destroy the world".  RIP Dave Owen. Listen to the boost come on!
Hayabusa Turbo 636HP  

-F1 cars from the V12 era.  Absolutely otherworldly.
ferrari f1 sounds v12 1994 412t1 car

-Can't find a good link of it, but a muzzy pipe on a ZX7R always sounded like a sewing machine, very precise and delicate, and then transformed into a howl as the revs got up, the type where you can feel the air moving.

-And of course the daddy.  Absolutely nothing compares to Top Fuel cars.
NHRA "Greatest quarter mile pass of all time"

[mz_rider]

Spitfire (very) low pass

Low Spitfire Pass

Stuart

[1tinindian]

OK, I have one for your hearing sences.
Turn the volumn up and wait till 1:50 for the sound to change!
vintage nitro car warm-up

I love my Trans Ams, too.
1981 TRANS AM 500+ HORSEPOWER

[pdxfj]

Truly some excellent posts and I never tire of the sound of large displacement engines.  I always laugh when someone with a Honda sporting a grapefruit shooter muffler, revving their engine thinking they sound all bad ass.  Just doesn't sound the same as a big block.  There is no replacement for displacement. 

WWII was the pinnacle of piston powered aircraft, and sadly their last gasp as the jet age had already begun.

I have ridden a turbo 'busa a number of times.  Let's just say the sound is very different when you're the one riding it at 200mph.

[tqmx1]

I hate to say thats a BF109G with a Damller DB605 stuck in the nose.

Sorry

[Kopfjaeger]

German engines. yum. straight cut gears, fuel injection, would give my right leg to hear a genuine FW 190 radial....... Horsepower? Sea fury.....nuff said....

[tqmx1]

You say you want a FW190A with a BMW have at it

First Engine Start FW190


Or how about a FW190D (Dora) with a Junkers Jumo

First Engine Start FW190

And A Centuars Fury

Getch's Fury

[tqmx1]

I missed on the Dora so here it is.

Fw190D Engine Runs

[Brook]

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/sports-cars/ac-cobra-427-replica/

[1tinindian]

Just listen to all the mechanical noises this old girl makes while trying to start up.

Corsair startup

And this one has a very mean howl too it!

Grumman F-7F Tigercat Demonstration - 4,000+ Horsepower !

[Kopfjaeger]

GSX-R1000 vs TZ250 at twin ring motegi in Japan for fits and giggles...... love lawnmower engines.



Eddie Lawson VS Wayne Gardner 1988 Salzburgring PART1


Awesome. Beats motogp.