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Originally Posted by camaroc5
It's not the number of cylinders that gives it that V8 sound. It's cylinder displacement (size of the cylinder). That is why a two cylinder Harley sounds mean as hell. That's also why a V10 may not sound as aggressive as a V8 due to trying to save space.
So if the V8 were to ever die, all engineers have to do is make those cylinders bigger! And there you have it...your V8 sound coming out of a V6 or maybe even a 4 cylinder
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That's not quite right. The sound has more to do with firing order and degrees of rotation between firings, which is generally dependent on number of cylinders. For that reason, a V6 could never sound like a V-8. The closest you could come would be the odd-fire 3.8L V-6 (before the split-pin cranks).
If it were the size of the cylinders that caused the sound, the Viper V10 would sound exactly like the 360 V8 (it doesn't), and the 4.3L Vortec V6 would sound exactly like the 350 (it doesn't).