50's Porsche vs. Hot Rod VW engine sound

Do they sound simular? Could you pick a Porsche out from a crowd of Replicas just by the sound?

Every time!!! A 356/912 engine has rectangular exhaust ports that produce a distinctive sound vs a VW with round exhaust ports. Even if you re-shape the VW ports, it still sounds like a VW.

Is this also true for the early VW sourced engines with 2 piece cases?

I don't know. It's been probably 35 years since I've heard an early 2 piece engine run.

Larry,
Last question. I've read that the last of the VW engines were used in 55's. Do you know if any were installed in Speedsters?
Thanks.

To the best of my knowledge, 1955 and subsequent Speedsters had the 3 piece engine. I'm also sure that the original 1954 Speedsters had a 2 piece.

Here is an original 4 cam 550 motor.Sounds good!

1952 25 hp VW motor

36 hp with Okrasa 74mm stroke kit

356 motor sounds different, Larry hit it right square ports make beefier sound!

The best! All different Porsche engine sounds.356 to 904 and 917

My speakers are crap! But the engine posts are cool. I would like to here the difference between the 356 engine (Porsche engine 2) and a 2000cc plus VW engine thats had the works done to it.

Get the embed code Cory.Its available below the video under share usually. Pretty neet for a Hoopty!

A couple years back, a guy I work with shot some video of the Hoopty -- right after it was built. There's a lot of engine idling noise and not a lot of excitement, but the sound is what you asked for. The last couple seconds are pretty noisy.

The engine's a tad bigger these days, but here's the old 2366cc Type IV:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3780712474526901534#

What better than one Cory in a hoopty?
TWO!!!
I see you and your twin brother having Hoopty fun in the air!
Back in the day of course.

P.S. Notice the invisible man sitting in the chair to the left!
With you guy's around I'd bail too!

Sweet Baby Jesus. Where did you find that cool picture?
Thanks for the tip, too. Cool what you can do with the English language. I should learn to read. :)

Find out if you can use the photo and I'll buy the T-shirt if you make one or three. That represents the Hoopty 356 experience to a T!!

I borrowed the photo from DER WHITES Super Bitchin' WebSite. See below

http://derwhites356literature.com/WhatsWrongwtPicture.html

Charlie's got a hell of a collection. With all the time and effort he goes to to collect such things, I'll leave that be.
He's probably got the most extensive collection of old P-car literature ever. I can totally respect his efforts.

Back to the point of the thread -- you should watch Jim Ignacio's Carlisle video from last year -- Danny Piperato has a two- or three-second burst of 550-esque noise in the middle of it. He's really close on the sound of the original, to my ear.
And his car is wicked-awesome also.

I have a JPS Speedster replica. I had two 356 coupes way back when, and I will tell you they sound different. Can't say exactly what it is, but a VW is a VW without question. Now that said, they are nevertheless quite similar because they are quite similar in all things mechanical. And the deal is the whine of the fan, if you ask me. This question was one I asked specifically of the builder before I bought my Speedster, as I was going to be really bummed if my replica was going to sound radically different than my old 356s. He said the sound would be similar, not exact. It is close enough and I'm OK w/ how the Speedster sounds.

Some say the Subbie Speesters (and they use Audi engines too I think in the 550s) sound good enough vs. the real deal. Well, maybe. But there I think it is the muffler choice more than anything. If there is no fan whining at 4,000+ rpm, it can't be nearly the same.

Here is a good in between sound. Fan belt has too much wine but otherwise very nice. I have Klipsch Speakers on my PC so they all sound pretty good:)

This is a video of Musbjim almost losing his hat, and me laughing my ass off.....and a little type1 mascarading as a Porsche motor:

PS: Cory, thanks, I like the way it sounds too, except for the hearing damage ;)

At the strip

14 second speedy! You go Joe!

Now that's CLASSIC SEG right thar!

~WB

On the street

I had the pleasure of driving with Joe and that bad boy. Two two hundred pound guys and we smoked a Camaro SS off the line.

To my unsophisticated ears, the overall similarity of exhaust note among all these horizontally-opposed, 4-cylinder, air cooled motors is more significant than the variations in sound character that are unique to specific types. They sound much more similar to one another than they do to any other engine configuration, and they all sound terrific!

I'm with Felix