Saw an R8 today...

[frank j. bauer]

the imsa gto mazda rx-7 had mufflers that looked like small garbage cans 
/dustbins...

Cody Forbes wrote:
> Taka Mizutani wrote:
> 
>> The Mazda 787 that Larry mentions had to have mufflers installed due
>> to the extreme noise generated
>> by that 4-rotor engine, that's pretty weird for a competition car.
>>
>> Taka
>>
> 
> And even with the muffler that car is hideously loud. If we are talking 
> about the same car, it has a muffler that runs most of the distance between 
> the front and rear wheels (traveling forward) outside of the bodywork. At 
> Sebring one year I remember watching most of the muffler glowing red down 
> the front straight, and you can hear the thing overtop of the 935's and 
> 962's without trouble at the opposite side of the track. The only thing I've 
> ever heard that approaches the volume level is F1 at Indy. That was pretty 
> damned loud.
> 
> -Cody Forbes