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dB Drag Racing

Posted by michael on from the highway-to-the-danger-zone dept.

Exedore writes "For a paltry $80,000 outlay, you too can fight back against the punk kids blasting gangsta rap from their Honda Civics. Enter the strange (and rather loud) world of dB Drag Racing and join a small group of dedicated competitors in their quest for the loudest car sound system possible. The numbers: 130,000 watts output, 177dB, 10,000 lbs. of equipment (including the vehicle and all the sound insulation needed to protect those nearby). It might not be quite up to Disaster Area standards, but it's not far off."

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  1. Crank It Up by The+Dobber · · Score: 4, Funny


    I Wanna hear Britney Spears wail !!

    1. Re:Crank It Up by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have a better idea. How about we but Brittney Spears inside one of these cars and see if we can set a new world record by pumping it up to 250 dB for a few minutes?

      That's probably loud enough to pulverize bone, but I expect elastic silicone would survive intact.

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    2. Re:Crank It Up by Snoopy77 · · Score: 2, Funny

      So you would like to see her bones crushed and her fake breasts intact? Why don't you just get a blowup doll.

      I would rather she stay looking exactly how she is and just stop singing. Perhaps we could just rupture her eardrums enough to send her tone deaf, leading to the demise of her 'singing' career.

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    3. Re:Crank It Up by orpheus2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps we could just rupture her eardrums enough to send her tone deaf

      This is different how...?

  2. Sounds like... by sleepingsquirrel · · Score: 4, Funny

    *Sounds* like they need some melamine ceiling tiles.

  3. Insulation? by sburnett · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Protect those nearby"?? Isn't the whole point of these things to annoy the hell out everyone in a 10 mile radius?

    1. Re:Insulation? by PetWolverine · · Score: 5, Funny

      Annoy, yes, but you don't necessarily want to kill them.

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  4. Check out my new weapon of choice by Pandion · · Score: 5, Funny

    I choose to fight back with an EMP :P

  5. oooh by autopr0n · · Score: 4, Funny

    My sound system is loud enough to cause me physical injuries! Hooray!

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    1. Re:oooh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have permanent hearing loss in my left ear due to a dual 500w Urban amp setup (yeah, cheap, but I was in HS at the time) with two Dr. Crankenstein subs.

      It's really not funny.

  6. So what kind of stickers... by writertype · · Score: 5, Funny

    do you need to win a dB drag race?

    1. Re:So what kind of stickers... by mc_wilson · · Score: 4, Funny

      Did you not see 2 Fast 2 Furious? Stickers arn't enough anymore! You need ground lighting!

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    2. Re:So what kind of stickers... by Jad+LaFields · · Score: 3, Funny

      I still stand by my belief that the makers of that movie missed out on a great naming possibility:

      The Faster and the Furiouser

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  7. Hah by MC68040 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those guy's don't stand a chance against my overclocked athlon, that thing sounds like a jet engine, and I mean it, it can even hum tunes if you adjust the fans real fast or with an automatic controller. Promise ;).

    http://funstuff.digital-bless.com/

  8. More targets.... by PaulK · · Score: 4, Funny

    For my modified radar gun.

    It's amazing how many speakers blow when mosfets overload. Quality sound. :)

    1. Re:More targets.... by Pravada · · Score: 3, Funny

      I remember reading in Car and Driver once that the fighter jockeys out in Colorado would seek out cars likely to have radar detectors and light them up with their ground-acquisition radar.

      You can imagine what happens to a Valentine One when it's being painted by an F-16...

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    2. Re:More targets.... by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 5, Funny
      Your bowels start to resonate and you lose all control.

      The technical term is "the brown noise". :-)

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  9. Show of hands... by goliard · · Score: 5, Funny


    Who all looked at the subject and thought, "Gee, I wonder how postgresql does against Oracle?"

    OK, and who all thought, "How do you get a db into a dress??"

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  10. Misread headline by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    dB drag racing

    Boy, did I ever read that wrong:

    "Aaaaand they're off!! It's DB2 in the lead with Oracle11i gaining on its heels and SQL Server a few furlongs back..."`

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  11. $80,000? by Anand_S · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dodge Caravan represent!

  12. And then.. by nolife · · Score: 4, Funny

    After the SPL thing wears off for them, they move into the world of PC video cards and CPU coooling systems..

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  13. Re:Noice cancellation by McAddress · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to coat your apartment in ceiling tiles. Never mind that you won't be able to see out your windows, and that it will probably get pretty hot in there. But hey, there are tradeoffs in life.

  14. +1 Informative??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    did the SPL scene...

    ...his sky-hook wing and blasting ICP...

    ...a tiny 112DbI...

    a custom 7th order isobarik subwoofer box

    How is this informative? I can't understand half of what you're saying!

  15. Re:Noice cancellation by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 2, Funny
    I mean, even through triple paned windows and extra sound insulation in the walls i can still here 50 cent in the middle of the night...

    Whup! Expect the RIAA to show up on your doorstep soon looking for a royalties cheque.

    YLFI

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  16. Great, but... by covertlaw · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can it blow women's clothes off like "The Italian Job"?

    Or more important, can the mighty Caravan run Linux?

  17. Re:The problem is... by overclocker89 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't drive the car. Read the article. it would be, "It still sounds better than the crap coming from the car next to you in the parking lot."

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  18. obligatory Spinal Tap reference by rifftide · · Score: 2, Funny

    The breakthrough came when they found a way to crank the volume dial up to 11...

  19. I can beat that.... by earthforce_1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just need to detonate a 300 kilotonne hydrogen bomb in the back seat of my saturn. I guarantee that the noise generated in the subsequent 3 seconds will put them to shame. Ah well, I was going to junk the car soon anyway.

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  20. Re:little known fact by ndinsil · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing, I've got a car that can make 1.21 Gigawatts! Can't get it up past 88 mph for some reason, though.

    Sorry, had to do it.

  21. Actually what I would like to see by melted · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..is a directed active noise cancellation system targeted specifically at those civics. Imagine the situation. You're at the intersection waiting for for a red light. Now this punk comes by with loud throbbing thump coming out of the windows of his car. Your car starts shaking. You press the right button, and active noise suppressor (kinda like the one they use on F-117s) supresses this motherf@ker's subwoofer and makes his entire sound system sound like a tin can until he closes the windows. Now that would be cool.