Was not done with my rant. YOU and people like you are VERY inconsiderent of other peoples rights to QUITE. Blow your ears away. But I like not to listen to your loud music, if one can call it that. <! I quess I better shut up while I'm still not upset with morons like YOU!>

 

its a truck....lol, believe it or not, i've gotten pulled over 5 times and all 5 times, i've been let off with warnings. its signs telling me to get rid of them before i do get the ticket...its $250.

 

ouch...ok i understand your right to quiet
/edit..accidently clicked post... but you said it.. people LIKE me. why are you ranting ME out? I"VE never been near you

 

<!We all need to be careful of the use of the word YOU. Then it's a personal attack. It's easy to get angry over something, but we need to keep the forums less personal, especially in this case. I edited my first post a couple times before finally posting it so that I could make my point without starting a flame war.>

I do understand your frustration though.... I've had many of the same thoughts as posted by the others. My favorite is the thought of getting out of my truck, walking over and ripping the stereo outta the offenders car, placing it under my wheels and running over it about 65 times. Then hand it back to the person and ask if they got my drift? Usually by the time I finish fantasizing, the light changes and we go merrily on our way. Hopefully in different directions. Unfortunately, we live in a world where people are increasingly inconsiderate of others.

 

The police are trying to develop a directional EMP generator that would disable all of the cars within a certain distance to stop those high speed car chases. An EMP generator would knock out a stereo also Maybe I should make a small one that could be reeled out under my car and positioned under the "violator" -WHUMP.... -silence

Jake brakes are an engine compression brake used on large diesel trucks.

 

the reason for this question was to get the opinions of the people around this noise. im not trying to defend the noise. to me, it was just sort of a competition with the other guys at school of who can be louder, but after reading some of these replies, im leaning highly on getting rid of those. more passenger room for me, more quiet for everyone win/win. besides, all these thoughts of putting mines on roads, running over stereos, kinda scares me

 

It just shows how upset people are over the noise being generated by an inconsiderate few.

 

Torque1st I agree with you on the jake-brake thing, I drove truck for awhile and always tried not to use the jake in residential areas at night(it becomes automatic after awhile like hitting the brake). Mine was pretty quiet and in the day the ambient noise would drown most of it out. My pet peeve is these guys that run big strait pipes on there truck and love to listen to their LOUD jakes anywhere someone might be sleeping. They love to sound them off in truck-stop parking lots at 3am when everyone is sleeping. Like anything else its the actions of a few that ruin it for all.

 

Or to put it simply, it's a valve in the exhaust that blocks the exhaust when you turn it on, slowing down the engine.

You can also get them aftermarket for diesel pickups.

 

I have two thoughts on how to control the problem of "noise Pollution" from excessively loud car stereos.

First, the idea of building a 'jammer' would be quite simple for a loud radio. Not sure if it would work for cd's, tapes etc. Just build a medium power rf generator, tuned to the IF frequency of the radio. I used to jam a radio at work all the time for a guy that liked to play his radio at an annoying level. I worked in the electronic calibration lab, we had all kinds of signal generators to use. Used, of all things, a metal scratch-awl as an antenna. Fun to blank his radio out, watch him try to re-tune it. After a few minutes, I'd stop the jamming, let him get used to his noise again, them jam it some more. Did this for several weeks before he finally figured out just who and how.

Second, I have been very tempted to buy a good quality paint ball gun , and mark the offenders cars as they pass by the house. Give the local Sheriff's office an anonymous call to let them know I have identified these rude clowns........

I know, both would be illegal, but I am to the point of not really caring.

 

LOL, when I was in the Navy, some guys in the barracks cube next to me kept their TV going when I was trying to sleep. I got a grid dip meter and tuned it to the TV frequency. It would wash out the picture and mute the audio. They would kick the TV.

 

I live in the country, near a four lane highway. The worst noise offenders are the boom cars and motorcycles...mostly Harleys with straight pipes. I can literally hear them comming from more than a mile away. Its a shame that these people are only thinking of themselves when they crank or get on their noise-making POS's. If the police wanted to, I'm sure they could stop every one of these people, but they have more important things to do.
Running straight pipes on a Harley has got to be against the law just about everywhere, but how many do you see pulled-over?
The boom car craze is something that I don't understand, I guess. Hey, I like a nice sounding stereo as much as the next guy, but what's the point with these systems? Anybody listening to these is going to suffer hearing damage. It'll be too bad when they won't be able to hear their own grandchildren speaking to them some day. Plus...if we ever get socialized medicine in this country, we'll all be paying for the treatment of these morons.
Is it Bose that sells those noise-cancelling head phones? I they ever come out with a hand-held version using that technology that you could point at someone and cancel the sound...I'm buying one. Wouldn't that be great? Some dude pulls up next to you with his bass thumping and his trunk ratteling...you point this thing at him, and...bingo...silence. He's looking around thinking he popped a fuse or something, and you're just smiling. It's like having an arm that's ten feet long that just reached over and turned his stereo off. If they start making those, I'm buying.

MR

 

Actually I have heard there is a high end stereo system that cancells outside noise. That might work if you had the bucks to have one in your car but it would not help if you were in a house. I doubt if it works for all of the passengers in a car.

 

Here's my take on the loud bass generators. Notice I did not refer to them as a stereo. The people who do this are trying to get noticed. A high end set of earphones will be louder at the ear than any of these setups. Also, much cheaper. So, what is the point? To get others to notice how cool you are. It's only bass, too. I'd wager that most of them don't have a speaker size less than 8". It doesn't have to be clear, either, just loud. Now, don't get me wrong, I like good loud rock every once in a while, but I listen to more than just bass. People who can actually play an instrument. I do think it's kind of funny when their 'spoiler wing' is vibrating out of frequency with the bass, because of harmonics. One last thing, why do they all play the same song? BOOM, cha cha cha, BOOM, cha cha cha, BOOM, I'm sure you've all heard the same 'song' as I have.

 

A JAKE brake and an EXHAUST brake do the same thing, but are NOT the same thing. A jake brake uses an apparatus to actuate the valvetrain to create compression. It lets it loose, right at TDC. This inturn creates the pop noise. With no mufflers, it really is loud.

An exhaust brake is a valve in the exhaust and creates backpressure from closing. This in turn slows the motor. With no muffler, it really does not change the note as much as a Jake.

As for NOISE pollution/loud stereos...
I just moved from an area that was notorious for alot of cars with stereos. It was a quiet street until they "improved" it with three lanes,curbs, sidewalks. Then it turned into a major thru way. Every third car was a ricer/rag/Escalade with 22" wheels with a boomin' radio . How obnoxious, all day, all night. You could not get away from it. It's a nice neighborhood, but the traffic was killing it. I have since moved and my new place is quiet as a country picture. I only get reminded how bad the old place was when I have to run down there to show it.

It's pathetic when you are sitting at a light and you hear this thump'n noise that rattles your truck and you have to figure out what car in the area is creating it . It's pretty easy to find....2-3 kids in a car, their hats backwards, leaning over so they can hardly see over the steering wheel

I think these noise cancelling devices will work better in the future. They basically hear a sound and create the equal/opposite sound to "cancel" each other out. Pretty ingenious, I'll have one too...

I've got a radio signal jammer that I build 20+yrs ago. It works great on radios and such, but not on CD players. It creates static and wipes out anything you were listening too on a radio

........I'll get off my soapbox now..............

PS: I think everyone should have to listen to a Kraco 8-track with a pair of 6x9 Kricket speakers...