re chryslers compact lh sedans cka uxa cso uiuc edu carolinafan uiuc writes shoppa almach caltech edu tim shoppa writes i thought that the v was originally designed for a truck not necessarily a pickup and then just sort of dropped into the viper s frame because it fit and was available a friend of mine and i saw and heard a viper and my friend s first response was that it sounded like a truck it sounded fine to me but then again i don t like the whiny noise that most modern sports car engines make btw the viper we saw was moving at about mph just like all of the other cars on the freeway heading east out of la on a friday afternoon looked really nice though actually i was under the impression that the v in the viper was not the v that dodge was developing for its new kenworths i have always thought it was the exhaust system and not the engine that produced the noise of a car well yes the exhaust is where the majority of the noise comes out but the basics tone firing cadence etc are determined by the engine configuration in the case of the viper yes we are discussing a huge multicylinder deg engine which will sound somewhat like a truck and my understanding btw is that that v engine was designed originally with the intention of being ad aptible for either the trucks or the viper and from what i ve heard no first hand knowledge it s doing a pretty good job at both and the best exhaust sound in the world is now and will always be a degree dohc colombo designed v period michael t chaffee mchaffee ux cso uiuc edu email mchaffee sumter cso uiuc edu nextmail sig under construction excuse
