Blues mobile 440 cop car sound

[QOTHL]

Just curious if anyone knows if the engine sound in the scene where Jake revs the engine and charges the IL Nazis who jump off the bridge is from a real 440?

 

[F4R/T]

I’d have to say idk for sure, but I love that movie! I kinda think it is, one with stock exhaust will still rumble..

 

[moparedtn]

Sounds very Ford-ish to me.

 

[QOTHL]

Sounds very Ford-ish to me.

Sounds too good to be a Ford...that would be sacrilidge! The cars they used were real Mopar cop cars. They sure destroyed a lot of Dodges in this movie.

 

[QOTHL]

I’d have to say idk for sure, but I love that movie! I kinda think it is, one with stock exhaust will still rumble..

I didn't know this movie flopped in the US when it first came out but was very successful elsewhere. The first time I saw it was as a double feature with Star Trek the Wrath of Khan in Australia. The only way a %$## Pinto could keep up with a Mopar cop car is when the engine has thrown a rod.

 

[QOTHL]

Sounds very Ford-ish to me.

In the movie extras, they say the scene where they show the speedometer at 110 was the actual speed. Fords can't go that fast...

 

[QOTHL]

 

[R413]

What a great movie! They don’t make em like that anymore. Too PC today. “Illinois nazis”. LOL

The car sounds good in that scene. Remember they have elaborate sound effects departments on movies.

this scene is a favorite

 

[moparedtn]

Sounds too good to be a Ford...that would be sacrilidge! The cars they used were real Mopar cop cars. They sure destroyed a lot of Dodges in this movie.

I'm well aware of what they used, young lady - but sound effects are sound effects and it's obvious that
scenes' audio isn't "live" with the car exhaust, but "canned" in editing later.
To answer your specific question, that particular scene's engine sounds are NOT like any 440 I've ever heard
(and I've owned plenty of 'em - including now!).

 

[F4R/T]

I don’t have mine running currently, but I will say my wife could hear mine 1-2 miles away with stock hemi mufflers when she was outside... weather was just right the sound will carry, but she said it has a very distinctive low rumble! My engine was 100% stock too..

 

[Darter6]

At the time they set the world's record for the most cars ever crashed in a movie. It may still stand.

 

[QOTHL]

I don’t have mine running currently, but I will say my wife could hear mine 1-2 miles away with stock hemi mufflers when she was outside... weather was just right the sound will carry, but she said it has a very distinctive low rumble! My engine was 100% stock too..

I'm no expert but since owning a real Hemi car, I could tell the difference between that and any other engine. Elwood says it is a 440 and I wouldn't mistake a Hemi for that sound.
I know what you mean - I've had people tell me they knew I was coming long before I got there. I had an interesting experience at a cruise-in with a woman who wanted to hear my Hemi because her husband who was deceased was driving a car that had one when they started dating. Nothing like it. That car has a nice set of headers but stock otherwise.

 

[QOTHL]

At the time they set the world's record for the most cars ever crashed in a movie. It may still stand.

Wasn't it over 280 cars? Dodge must've loved it! Not to mention the salvage guys.

 

[QOTHL]

I'm well aware of what they used, young lady - but sound effects are sound effects and it's obvious that
scenes' audio isn't "live" with the car exhaust, but "canned" in editing later.
To answer your specific question, that particular scene's engine sounds are NOT like any 440 I've ever heard
(and I've owned plenty of 'em - including now!).

Well, thanks for making my day - I've had a couple of days this week where I felt like a dried up old fart on a piece of driftwood.

 

[451Mopar]

I never had a 440 with a Thermoquad, but I imagine it would sound like that. Sort of like the GM quadrajet sound.

 

[moparedtn]

Engines have "cadences" to them, especially back in the 60s and 70s.
Fords sounded like Fords; GMs sounded like industrial junk; Mopars sounded AWESOME.

 

[451Mopar]

I put 2-1/2" Sears "Muzzler" mufflers on my '67 Coronet. A 318 engine with headers, and it sounded really good, but not that loud.

 

[R413]

Engines have "cadences" to them, especially back in the 60s and 70s.
Fords sounded like Fords; GMs sounded like industrial junk; Mopars sounded AWESOME.

Agree, a V8 pontiac stock eliminator car sounds like a garbage truck with a miss, until the scoreboard lights up then it appears it was moving pretty good.

 

[QOTHL]

Engines have "cadences" to them, especially back in the 60s and 70s.
Fords sounded like Fords; GMs sounded like industrial junk; Mopars sounded AWESOME.

They LOOKED awesome too!

 

[moparedtn]

They LOOKED awesome too!

Still do.