The sounds of the automotive world are as diverse as the cars from which they emanate, with certain engine notes being almost instantly identifiable. For instance, there's no mistaking the deep, ...

A lot of 5.7 Hemi owners start looking at headers after the factory manifolds begin holding the engine back. Some want more ...

When you’ve driven your car for a long time, you probably know what it usually sounds like and can recognize something odd. Rattling sounds coming when you go on unpaved roads, accelerate, or even ...

For budding car enthusiasts, it's a badge of honor to correctly identify the number of cylinders in an engine just by its exhaust note. The number of cylinders plays a vital role in how an engine ...

An exhaust note helps give a cars its personality, and what that personality is has a lot to do to the type of engine it has. Toyota has released a helpful explainer on why that is. It starts with the ...

The premise of the test was simple. First we'd select a test vehicle, then run all the mufflers on the chassis dyno to determine the horsepower output and back pressure of each set, and then test them ...

Classic V8 engines have a very distinct sound that modern engines seem to have lost over the years. How did automakers achieve this sound?

An exhaust resonator is a hollow chamber in the exhaust system that cancels specific unwanted sound frequencies, typically ...