Well, this is it. I think I've found the worst sounding ICE vehicle ever.
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It's called the LiAZ 677 and like all truly terrible vehicles it came out of Soviet Russia. It sounds like a streetcar somehow, despite not having rails or a telegraph or any of the other things that make streetcars make noise. It sounds like you could fit your hand into the engine tolerances.
The person reading this is a doo-doo head
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Guy 1) What type of fuel does it burn?
Guy 2) Yes.
'84 Dodge Rampage, '88 AMC Eagle, '15 Husky FE350S -Oppo Never Dies!
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@sn4cktimes it's a wood-burning engine
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@essextee maybe you should search YT for Russian agricultural machinery before you reach any conclusions. Or for that matter, any older agricultural machinery...
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I thought you were being dramatic. You weren’t.
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Where the hell does the irregular hollow pinging noise come from? Engines don't make noises like that. If it were just the one i'd say its broken, but all three examples make irrational noises.
Edit: watching the third video again, the pinging may be the compressor for the air brakes.. It still sounds wrong, but makes some sense.
I like big boost and I cannot lie.
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@cressida-s_kanji_4_diamante fatal burn.
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Sounds like some metal chunks rattling around in a washing machine at low revs/idle
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Counterpoint: sounding like a set of badly out of tune cymbals and wind chimes isn't inherently a bad thing, though that engine definitely is.
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@jawzx2 I thought it was one of the wildly bouncing belts pinging on a metal...thing?
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@essextee I think it sounds amazing ;D
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The belt slop is enough to prevent mechanics from working on the engine while it's running. Soviet safety feature.
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This article suggests the pinging to be something transmission related "like the sound of empty bottles" which really just poses more questions than it answers.
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Sounds like if I built an engine out of folgers cans and fence posts and miraculously got it to run. Amazing
'22 Veloster N
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Wow, you weren't kidding...that bus sounds like it is going to explode at any minute...
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Sounds normal to me.
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Sounds like a bunch of flags on flag poles in the middle of a hurricane. I guess you always know when the bus is on its way.
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http://www.sovavto.net/liaz/677-e.htm says:
7 liter V8 making 180 hp and 272 lb-ft of torque, 6.5:1 CR (what is this, paraffin?) and a bore:stroke of 108:95. Very odd combination, high toque low power with an over square low compression engine. No replacement for displacement, and obviously very long lived being they stopped making them in 1994 (CKD until 2002) and they're still in service today.
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@jawzx2 I can't find much info on it because Soviet but it seems to have a hydromechanical transmission that's often described as having "the sound of empty glass bottles". That phrase pops up a lot and seems to have been possibly a nickname for that bus model.
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@amoore100 that exact phrase popped up a lot in articles and YT descriptions. I think it was used as a nickname for that bus model.
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@shoop dammit why can I only upvote this once
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I see someone hasn't driven a Subaru crosstrek to redline, have you?
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I don't have video or sound bite, but I had a security truck, a 97' Chev s10, that was soooo bad, people would say "I didn't know S10's came with a diesel!"
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