Hey guys, I have a genuine and frustrating problem I'm trying to figure out so I can start to model. ---How is just the exhaust sound from a car come from? (Yes, i know feom the individual explosions that are happening inside the combustion chamber, but its more complex). Also, why if your not in the right gear going up hill, and even tho your RPM hasn't changed, as you give it more gas, the engine note changes. ( besides the obvious answer because you're giving it more gas there's a more complex answer). And finally, what makes a Ferrari V8 sound SO different that a Chevy or Ford V8, excluding size and exhaust layout. I have an hypothesis. We will focus on one cylinder of an Engine of your choosing. Engine takes in air and fuel, its compressed to around 120psi, ignition, rise and heat are produced and the piston gets pushed down, ( (very simple introduction). However , as the piston is at bottom dead center and before the exhaust valve opens, there still remains a calculatable pressure that remains. Due to a volume of air now hotter than originally, there is still pressure inside the chamber. When the exhaust valve opens, rapidly even at idle and the piston is thruster upward, thoes hot exhaust gases, as hot as 50psi, are forced into the exhaust system and out the tailpipe. Now 50psi being forces out a narrow tube in ,even as low as .06 sec, is bound to "carry a tone" what do u think