Defining Modern Muscle: Power vs Sound. What life you about!?

[ghunt81]

You you let me know, because I might want to buy it!

Well, I could do that- I think you're about 3 hours from me.

The only real issue with this truck is that it has 180K on it. It's a former company truck from my employer, I won it in an internal silent auction and it had 172K on it and had a blown transmission when I got it. I've done a lot of work on it, put in a used transmission, small torsion crank, etc. Been a good truck, haven't had a single issue with it in the time I've been driving it.

 

[pass1over]

I watched some Mustang documentary/history show, not sure which one now, may have been A Faster Horse. Anyway, they showed that Ford went through something like 170 different exhaust set ups for the GT because a V8 Mustang has a sound that is very recognizable and pretty special to a lot of people. The Ford engineers and designers think it's a big deal because they too want anybody that hears the car to say "there's a Mustang".

Volvo created the exhaust on the XC90 v8 car's to sound like a pushrod 5.0 motor. My MIL has one and it pretty much sounds like an old 5.0.