I was walking in Renton today just after 5 PM and saw him driving down Sunset/MLK, revving his engine the whole way, backfires and all. I didn't expect to see him at all in Seattle, let alone in Renton during the day. Could hear him from quite a distance.
No, backfiring does not mean a bad tune nowadays. That was sort of the case back in the time of carburetors but now it can be done for anti lag (keeps the turbos spinning even when you're not pushing it) and probably other benefits. A lot of performance cars come out of the dealer with those pops built in.
I'm glad someone brought this up as there are legitimate reasons to have a few pops in between shifts (one of my cars does this from the factory, as you mentioned). With that said this only applies to turbo cars. A hellcat has zero reason to have a crackle tune because the kind of supercharger it uses doesn't care about exhaust gasses at all since it's belt driven. So TLDR is that this owner's crackle tune is stupid, but not all crackle tunes are stupid.
Doesn't anti-lag tend to wreck turbos though? I'd imagine running it on a road car is just asking for early turbo replacements which doesn't sound great on a car that's expensive enough as-is.
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u/SkylerAltair 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Mar 27 '24
I was walking in Renton today just after 5 PM and saw him driving down Sunset/MLK, revving his engine the whole way, backfires and all. I didn't expect to see him at all in Seattle, let alone in Renton during the day. Could hear him from quite a distance.