supercharger whine

different camera

Whoa!!! he said "windows up" and the the car took off, tires squalled and was gone...
I said "windows up" in mine and it did nothin????
Is something wrong with mine????
(i forgot t take my meds, maybe that's it )

lololololol

Ok, seriously...
After thinking about it, I think I can explain wassup.(makes sence t me anyway)
When I gutted my airbox- i could hear the sc better than stock.
When I fabricated(big word)the airbox to only take in air fm the fenderwell- i could hear the sc better than with the gutted airbox.
This leads me to believe that the badass sound is coming fm the intake side of the sc.
So now, the stock intake tube is a fairly dense rubber and i think that insulates some of the blower noise. I am not sure, but if it was a metal intake I would hear it a even a little better. And with smaller pulleys- it would spin faster so you'd get even more noise. This is my understanding of the whole thing. Whether it is accurate or not=IDK

I think Chris is onto something. The first video sounds just like mine, and mine's completely stock.

So I was driving tonight and just left the gas station and I had my brother figure out my mpg.....20.2 not bad I thought. His female friend said I get way more than that. (drives a HYUNDAI) I said yeah but can your car do this. I floored it from about 20 and stayed in until it got to like 55 or so. Seemed like it took a while to get there. Also I hear a little of the blower sound but not a lot. Is it not very pronouced on a stock car? Can anyone do a sound clip for me of a stock engine? I had an 1988 series I N/A and it felt about like the same power as I had here. Could there be something wrong with my s/c? No CEL or anything. Just not the power I expected.

i remember when i first got mine...i barely noticed anything either on mine. i could feel the slight boost when it kicked in but barely heard anything out of the ordinary. its not just you. slap a FWI on and ull hear an awesome whine..i have a clip of that if u would like..not the stock though.

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His female friend said I get way more than that.

I get that a lot. Most drivers, especially female, will compare your "combined actual" MPG to whatever highway MPG their car was supposed to get based on the old EPA standard, which was generous. I'm betting she'd be surprised at her actual MPG if she were to take fuel records and calculate a measurement over several hundred miles of driving.

Stock Supercharged Rivs are pretty quiet. Gut the airbox and you'll hear it whine!

it depends which hyundai shes driving too. my sisters 08 elantra gets like 22-25 mpg actual. my dads 06 sonata gets like 18 actual. moms 08 tuscon gets like 16-17 actual.

I work with a gal who drives a Pontiac G6 coupe. When I told her the Riviera got 20 MPG (actual combined average) she said, "wow, that's all? I get 26 MPG." Turns out the EPA rates her car at 18 city / 26 hwy / 21 combined. Our cars get about the same mileage, but my car makes about 100 HP more than hers, and it's more than 500 lb heavier.

thats why i keep tellin my parents theyre stupid lol.
they keep suggesting me to buy a NEW car. yes brand new..i said why would i do that? my car has 62k on it..i just need to invest maybe a 100-200 bucks more and spend some time on it with my buddy...itll be good as new! much better than buyin a new car with shitty plastic everywhere, smaller, still have problems, AND get nearly the same gas mileage

gordy318 wrote:

So I was driving tonight and just left the gas station and I had my brother figure out my mpg.....20.2 not bad I thought. His female friend said I get way more than that. (drives a HYUNDAI) I said yeah but can your car do this. I floored it from about 20 and stayed in until it got to like 55 or so. Seemed like it took a while to get there. Also I hear a little of the blower sound but not a lot. Is it not very pronouced on a stock car? Can anyone do a sound clip for me of a stock engine? I had an 1988 series I N/A and it felt about like the same power as I had here. Could there be something wrong with my s/c? No CEL or anything. Just not the power I expected.

Are you running 93 octane? It shouldn't take very long to get to 55... unless you have a lot of detonation going on or something?

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thats why i keep tellin my parents theyre stupid lol.

Ahh, I'm sure your parents aren't stupid, they're just not as well informed about cars as you are, especially when it comes to Rivieras. In most cases, they'd be right. But not everyone has dozens of write-ups and a bunch of Riviera nuts to help them out when the going gets tough!

That's something that gets under my skin. When someone spouts off fuel milage with no real data/numbers to back it up. The window sticker values are just a comparison guideline, at best.
Aaron's MPG rules with the mods he has.

Cheers

Agreed. The first thing I ask is 'how many MPG was your last tank?' when people start spouting fuel economy 'stats' at me. If they can answer, then I ask 'exactly'? Usually nobody knows. I always know. 16.7

the last few weeks I've been trying to turn my car off at stoplights. It hasn't had a noticable effect on my milage yet, but I'll keep trying...

umm...they arent bad cars at all. its cool though..they only won north american car of the year.

I have a HAI on my Riv and can hear the blower whine at around 3,000rpms or so. It's really quiet compared to the Regal but that's only because the Regal has way more mods. I could swear that I can hear the engine growl up to 3,500 on the Riv until the blower drowns that sound out entirely. Oh the funny sounds stock L67s make. lol

Am i an L67?

DEMonte1997 wrote:

I have a HAI on my Riv and can hear the blower whine at around 3,000rpms or so. It's really quiet compared to the Regal but that's only because the Regal has way more mods. I could swear that I can hear the engine growl up to 3,500 on the Riv until the blower drowns that sound out entirely. Oh the funny sounds stock L67s make. lol

yes sir.

YIPPEE!!!

l67+FWI or CAI = Yippe!

with FWI

What is a FWI?

Thanks for the sound clips. Mine sounds nothing like that.

FenderWell Intake. see the hose that runs from the throttle into the fender? there is a k and n cone filter in there.

it wont sound like it with the stock air box. theres a lot of garbage that blocks a lot of the air flow. there are write ups on how to gut the air box. and for a FWI