For some people, there's nothing that will make your heart race like the sound of a car running flat-out. I'm one of those people, and have been building a collection of sounds of cars and racing taken from my Sony 8mm camcorder. This is what I have to offer so far.

Below is a table with the sound files that I have so far. They're in chronological order with the newest files at the top. The star scale is from 1 to 5, with 5 stars being the highest rated sound quality and composition.

All the unmarked descriptions are probably of my Civic HX, recorded from inside the car. The other recordings should list what kind of car they're from, and were probably recorded from outside the car with the same camcorder.

Rating	Description	Form & Size
****	Nissan 350Z standing start, outside car	Stereo, 658
***	Nissan 350Z pulling out of pit lane, inside car	Stereo, 776
****	Nissan Skyline R34, 25GT turbo 1-3rd gear, outside car	Stereo, 802k
*****	Nissan Skyline R34, 25GT turbo 1-3rd gear, inside car	Stereo, 502k
****	Golf 1.8 turbo with a Forced Motion exhaust, 3rd-5th gear dyno run	Stereo, 453k
**	Val Berechet's 1997 Civic HX 2-liter non-VTEC lope at idle	Stereo, 206k
***	Val Berechet's 1997 Civic HX 2-liter non-VTEC dynorun	Stereo, 194k
****	Mark Tozer's single turbo Supra on the dyno	Stereo, 815k
*****	A 2001 Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge car on the dyno	Stereo, 1124k
***	My 88 Civic running 2nd through 4th gear on the dyno, Cherry Bomb exhaust	Stereo, 679k
**	My 88 Civic DX B16A SiR DOHC VTEC running 1st and 2nd gears to 7k on the dyno	Stereo, 172k
***	My 88 B16A Civic running from 2k to 8k rpm on the dyno in 3rd	Stereo, 373k
****	Carl's very nice 1994 Supra Turbo launching. Taken at Willow Springs.	Stereo, 140k
***	An Integra GS-R with wide open intake launching. Taken at Willow Springs.	Stereo, 166k
***	Lexus GS400 and Eclipse turbo launching. Taken at Willow Springs.	Stereo, 270k
****	A pair of Porsche 911 RSR's zooming by. Taken at Willow Springs.	Stereo, 149k
***	My Civic HX doing an Autocross. Audio taken from the front bumper	Mono, 322k
****	Same autocross, but with much more aggressive driving. Runs to the rev-limiter.	Mono, 320k
***	Same autocross, but with far more skidding. Includes running down a cone.	Mono, 401k
***	My old 6-cylinder Maxima revving up without the muffler	Mono, 186k
***	2nd gear solidly into the rev-limiter (Integra Type-R)	Stereo, 150k
****	2nd and 3rd gear, totally missed 3rd gear on first try (Integra Type-R)	SimSurround, 107k
***	2nd and 3rd gear, hits rev-limeter in 2nd (Integra Type-R)	Stereo, 139k
***	2nd and 3rd gear racing past (Integra Type-R)	Stereo, 104k
***	Clean run of 1st and 2nd gear	Stereo, 215k
**	1st gear run on a wet road	Stereo, 177k
*	1st gear run with windows open	SimSurround, 193k
**	1st and 2nd gear runs with windows open	SimSurround, 294k
**	Revving in neutral followed by a 0-70 run.	Stereo, 450k
*	A nice 0-90 run	Mono, 200k

If you need an MP3 player, I would suggest WinAmp. It's relatively small, yet still a totally feature-packed sound program.
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