What is a turbo whistle in a muffler?

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

TV dictates the trend for powerful and loud sounding cars and constantly reminds us that there is no point in taking a fast car if it does not roar enough. In this article, we will talk in detail about the turbo whistle.

The sound of squealing rubber, puffs of smoke coming not only from the exhaust pipe, but also from the tires themselves - exactly what media resources are trying to impose on motorists.

And although everyone is well aware that there is no pleasure from roaring in the cabin, and constant exposure to noise on the hearing aid will at best lead to rapid fatigue, many still use the turbo whistle.

Cheap tuning

For lack of a sufficient budget for serious tuning, but being influenced by movies and various TV shows, many sports car owners are happy to install a turbo whistle in their muffler on their cars.

This trick doesn't speed up the car at all, it just makes the exhaust sound not just louder, but more like a turbocharged engine.

Turbo whistle (whistle or resonator) - simple and cheapa way to set yourself apart from the car crowd for a relatively modest fee. All that needs to be done is to put the nozzle on the muffler. As gases pass through it, a special design of the nozzle changes the sound with which the gas leaves the exhaust pipe, as close as possible to the whistle of turbocharged cars.

But not everything is so simple, and when installing a turbo whistle in a muffler, you need to choose it correctly, taking into account the following factors:

• engine size;
• exhaust pipe diameter.

Main characteristics of nozzles

Tips on the exhaust pipe, designed to simulate a turbine installed in a car, are distinguished by engine size, the sounds of which will be faked and in shape.

Whistle by engine size:

• S - small (up to 1.4 liters, for motorcycles and scooters);
• M - medium (from 1.4 to 2.2 liters);
• L - large (from 2.2 to 2.3 liters, muffler diameter 43-56 m);
• XL - extra large (over 2.3 liters, diameter - over 57 mm).

Whistle in the form:

• rectangular;
• conical;
• cylindrical.

The diameter of the turbo whistles installed in the muffler is taken into account for a reason, and if this parameter is not calculated, the sound emitted may be very different from the turbine or be unlike the noise of a powerful car.

Interesting nuances include the difficulty of installing a turbo whistle in the muffler on a budget car with an engine capacity of around 1 liter. Fromwith such a small volume, it will be extremely difficult to achieve high-quality and loud sound compared to more capacious engines.

Turbo whistle DIY

To understand how to make a turbo whistle on a muffler with your own hands, you should take into account not only the factors described above, but also understand what parts it consists of. However, you can go much further and not get your hands dirty with dirty tools.

Relatively recently, 3D printers have gained popularity in the world, capable of creating three-dimensional objects from plastic. As you already understood, you can create a turbo whistle in a silencer using such a device. The cost of the cheapest (including the necessary materials) is about 15 thousand rubles, but there must be people in your city who have already bought this device and provide services for printing parts.

So you just need to find a 3D model of a whistle for your car or create it yourself in the appropriate applications. Fortunately, everything is as simple as possible, and all you need is the dimensions of the part.

In closing

We hope that after reading this article you have understood how to make a turbo whistle in the muffler with your own hands. The technology, as you may have noticed, is quite simple, so creating a device that imitates the sound of a turbine is not difficult. Some skilled drivers are even capable of performing short songs.