Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower

Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by zanderz on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:08PM (#22577795)

My German friend with a harley tells me that loud motorcycles are very strictly controlled in his part of Europe, especially Austria, which is popular to transit through on long tours to the Alps. He says Austrian police will confiscate a motorcycle on the spot if it is deemed too loud and/or illegally modified. I wish they did that in my neighborhood, where some motorcycles are loud enough to set off car alarms right outside my window.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by ska on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:35PM (#22578021)

Europe has fairly strict sound limits on motorcycles (and they are getting stricter) in euro4/euro5. This constrains the manufacturers, but aftermarket enforcement really varies by location.

These days a lot of manufacturers homologate to meet multiple standards, so we get euro4ish stuff in north america too, stock at least.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by andrepd on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:38PM (#22578057)

Yep, it's not so much the production limits (still, they could be pushed gradually lower and I'm sure the manufacturers would manage), but it's the often grey-are of aftermarket modifications.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by glogla on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:05AM (#22582295)

Also, I think European houses and apartment buildings are built from brick, stone and concrete, while in US most of "homes" are wood and drywall, which doesn't isolate as well.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by noir_lord on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:14PM (#22579505)

All I can say as a motorcyclist myself is good.

After market exhausts that aren’t engineered to be deliberately louder are stupid and annoying to other people.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by ska on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:34PM (#22579609)

I suspect you meant engineered to be quieter?

Excluding intentionally loud exhausts, the intake on a lot of bikes generates more sound than the pipes, at least at speed.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by diydsp on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:01PM (#22579427)

We have those limits on sound where i live in the u.s., but the police feign ignorance on testing procedures and treat it as lowest priority.

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