Completely off topic, but rather than watch the video on autoblog.com I followed the link direct to youtube, but I got distracted by the "mom's reaction to 1250whp twin turbo" on the right hand side "Related Videos" section, Just a quick peek right, can't hurt!

But then I got curious about this video poster, RobertHimler, and looked at some of his other his videos, and them stumbled across his Australian girlfriend Amy Sangster, and her success in foreign exchange trading, and his 17 lamborghinis, and they're both 22 years old and retired from the rat race and HOLY SHIT BALLS THESE PEOPLE HAVE AMAZING LIFESTYLEZ YO

And he is an amazing web developer who has created 8 different sites and a photo app that rivals flickr and instagram, and he's been programming since he was 8 years old, and a self-made multi-bazillionaire

And now he's selling an e-book on the internet how you too can have the amazing lifestyle and own crazy expensive sports cars and attractive partners, and it just stinks of some sort of super scam, but wow, what a story, and it kept me entertained to do back ground hunting on the two of them for 15 minutes, and it was an unexpected trip, so thanks.

It's an engaging white collar 411 scam (without the murder). How do people actually fall for this stuff?

It's an interesting question. Interestingly enough if you can get past the chicken and egg stage, it would appear as though it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy - ie, selling the information on how you got rich might eventually get you rich.

I remember sitting through a seminar which was touted as a sober investment discussion but turned out to be a get-rich-quick scheme. The guy had all the same things - photos of him in Ferraris, awesome looking girlfriend despite him being a very plain, overweight dude, and pictures of his amazing houses.

I was thinking at the time how easy it would be to make a slideshow like that, throw in some very generic advice and sell a couple of hundred 'kits' a night at a few thousand a pop. You could easily end up with said Ferrari and house if you could keep it rolling for a year or so.

That is, if you could live with your conciensce.

You wouldn't be the first person being skeptical of this whole thing:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/robert-himler/internet-fraud/rob...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/robert-himler-and-a...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/robert-himler-and-a...

Now I don't know about either of them until you mentioned your post but all I know is that https://www.google.com/search?q=drew+houston+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=alexis+ohanian+scam do not return nearly as many dedicated blog posts as https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+himler+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=amy+sangster+scam

A couple more clicks and I came across https://twitter.com/socialmediatwip defending http://amysangsterscam.com/ and promoting http://forex-ultrasonic-robot.blogspot.com/

yeah, I discovered all those links, + some more regarding their forex company, and a couple of other partners in crime who'se names I won't mention.

I particular enjoyed the ripoffreport one, where a random internet dude got on and defended Mr Himler with huge walls of text including bold and italic formatting. They seemed to take a lot of care for someone who had no connection at all! Colour me skeptical!

It made for a great Friday afternoon of reading, all that was missing was a beer in hand, but I have since taken care of that missing beer problem.

oh damn, I actually followed those links to Drew Houston and Alexis Ohanian expecting even more exciting scammer reads, but received a history lesson on the founders of dropbox and reddit instead!

How to get rich quick: write a book about how to get rich quick

Seriously, if you're independently wealthy and retired at twenty-two, why are you selling an e-book? That should immediately throw up flags.

I thought at first you were talking about the beer can dude actually being a billionaire with 17 lamborghinis! It would be hard to imagine somebody who actually owned those cars to spend so much energy duplicating the engine sound with a beer can.

Well, 17 lamborghinis was an exaggeration, he did seem to have a number of them, an excessive number, coming from someone who drives a commodore, I was jealous!

Sounds like that gearbox is a little slow, throw a little long, on the upshift. Might need to get that checked.

If I were 8 again, I'd totally waste days on it, organize races with friends and stuff. Very cool!

What can I say. I could not do it.

Edit holy shit getting the hang of it.

Thank you for the most epic comment of HN.

This video is cool, but it always reminds me of how big engines used to sound. Maybe it's the pushrods or something, but they used to be made to sound so much less... neutered.

It can be tough to find the right audio clips, but here's one that isn't bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL49A82E62F8CF2750&v=N...

Fascinating stuff this is!

In this case it's the 5.2L Lambo V10's uneven firing order caused by the two banks being 90 degrees apart vs. the 144 crankshaft rotational degree spacing of exhaust pulses on a given 5-cylinder bank and opposing cylinders sharing a common, non-offset journal. In effect, this is two 5-cylinder engines sharing a common crankcase and crankshaft.

The musical third is lurking in this uneven timing and the heavy high harmonic content comes about when you have two banks that are even firing unto themselves.

A cross-plane American V8 is not even-firing on each side of the vee, but a bundle-of-snakes (180-degree) exhaust like in a Ford GT40 will get you some of that octave scream too.

Possible cultural differences there - to me that clip sounds like an "American V8". Performance car manufacturers put a lot of effort into making their cars sound right - to my ears the more exotic Lambo/Ferrari/Aston engines sound much nicer - but that will just be my own cultural biases regarding what a performance car is supposed to sound like.

Lambo/Ferrari/Aston used to have the same raw quality, and it was great then too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHLMXmghwI

Engines still have pushrods, so I don't think that is it. :)

Comes down to a couple reasons - 1) the increased pollution reduction technologies (i.e the catalytic converter and muffler) used, which in the video you linked to doesn't have any of those and is just straight headers and 2) the timing of those older motors is mechanical and set to be optimal when the motor is at a peak (or near peak) performance.

> the timing of those older motors is mechanical and set to be optimal when the motor is at a peak (or near peak) performance.

Not true with mechanical variable valve phasing/timing/shifting systems, famed (and defamed) as VTEC for Honda, but available in other alternative forms (and often recently and in milder forms probably due to Honda and Toyota patents gradually expiring), like Toyota: VVT-i (famous as VVT in AE86's 4A-GE engine), Suzuki: VVT (e.g on Swift Sport M16A engine), Ford: VCT...

Or it can be completely electronic thanks to direct injection gasoline engines, like Fiat MultiAir.

You're correct in saying that other factors define the sound of the engine, but note that his comparison is in this instance technically valid - the V10 in the Gallardo uses overhead cams, so there are no pushrods.

It still totally depends on the car, I've seen a few that still sound like the world is ending (Reventon for one), it's just often they're bowing to putting smaller, more efficient engines into them, and complying with more regulations about sound proofing and not annoying wildlife.

I get what you mean though, I heard a Ford RS200 being ragged around a track last year and it sounded amazing.

While we are on that subject, a V10 is not a Lamborghini no matter what the bull on the hood and the price tag are trying to tell you... that is an Audi aluminum engine, not an "Italian passion" V12 monster.

>that is an Audi aluminum engine, not an "Italian passion" V12 monster.

Are you really trying to discredit Lamborghini because they're now owned by Audi? The passion you're referring to comes from the design. Most people couldn't care less about the sound. The other day a Ferrari 599 GTB passed by a restaurant and my friend said it was an obnoxious sounding car.

How about Pagani? Their engines are made by Mercedes/AMG. Does that mean it's any less Italian?

Let me ask you this: is the original Porsche 924 really a Porsche for you?

If you're trying to compare this to Lamborghini and their engines you picked a bad example. The 924 was entirely designed by VW but tweaked by Porsche. It is a Porsche, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of their cars because it was a terrible performer and that's not what Porsche stands for.

Maybe this will change you stance on Lamborghini

Supercars cars that use other manufacturer's engines:

-Maserati (Ferrari engines)

-Rossion Q1 (Ford engine)

-Noble M600 (volvo engine)

-Pagani (Mercedes/AMG)

-Aston Martin (DB9 uses Ford-based engine)

-Ariel Atom (Honda and Suzuki engines)

-TVR Cerbera (originally a TVR engine, switched to Jaguar)

-Spyker (Audi engines)

-Koenigsegg CCX (Ford engines)

Very impressive and bice background on the science.

I'd love to see him do the same with a nitro funny car... I saw one for the first time last month and it's impossible to convey the shear power that you can feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOEz0Y3Lcc

Does australia have talent? definitely some sort of talent for making car sounds- this guy was on our national tv; http://youtu.be/RSDUcKw-GOk

More models and without the beer can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKb572Yo2aM

But we will lose these powerful car sounds with electric cars :(. Which is bad for the peoples who love these sounds, but will make the cities more quiet. They trying to fake it but it's not the same: http://vimeo.com/39818209

You like the sound because you use it to predict the power/speed of the car. I'm sure you will latch on to another indicator for powerful electric cars, so no need to worry, bro.

That is the best thing I have seen all day.

Holy cow. I wish I could make this sound when driving my 2001 Honda.

I'm sure this guys neighbors love him.