did a school project on this engine in the 60s teachers didnt believe it was only 1.5 litres,@ 16 cyls. great engineering for those days.still sounds better than a f1
***** I don't wanna 'dis' the engine because it sounds epic. But 'great engineering'? It was one of the most unreliable cars to hit the track. It hardly finished any races. Although I would argue, who needs to finish the race when you sound this good!
Simple answer, they only had points ignition in the 50's which didn't work very well at those high revs. Modern electronic ignition would have sorted it.
+Rogue Qall It was great Engineering but it's logical that it's unreliable because it has too much moving Parts which are very small . You need 16 cylinders, at least 32 valves, valve springs for every valve, a supercharger,... Everything in very small dimensions so something is about to fail everytime
Yes it sure is. How only 1.5L sounds that menacing! I will say however the Mazda R26B gives it a good run for its money in intimidation and I think has the edge in 'angriness'! Both are brilliant sounding engines in my opinion.
I was witness to one of the few wins ever registered by the BRM. The race was at Charterhall in southern Scotland, and the car was driven by Mike Hawthorne: the time 1952. Mike wore his peculiar crash helmet and lucky bow tie. The sound of the car was a characteristic scream. - a sound I shall never forget. BTW I have still not heard the right sound reproduced by runs of surviving machines. The car I saw had the large grill and was finished in British racing green.
This man is like 85 and he not only remembers that day to the point of differentiating the sound, he knows how to comment normally on UA-cam with slang like BTW. I wish to be as clued in as you at that age
I quite agree an amazing sound and all home built in a workshop / garage only a few miles away from where I live . Very clever engineering skills the parts that were unreliable were always the parts BRM couldn't make themselves, ignition systems magnetos and solenoids. Modern engine mapping an ECU and electronic ignition would solve all its problems today and make it an unbelievably powerful beast.
cant believe how similar the last high rpm clip sounds to modern screamers. this was in the 50s when stuffing aircraft engines in race cars was the norm.
Aircraft engines usually top out about 3000 rpm, unless you want the complexity of a geared prop . This beast was revving over 10000 according to this story . It’s an amazing bit of Engineering. It is a shame they didn’t build a 3.0 litre version of their gorgeous 2.2 lite motor . That engine was a ripper.
Themayseffect I think the H16 was the unreliable car. This one had problems with ignition due to the high revs and supercharging. You can hear the misfire.
Everything about it made it unreliable. The design was simply to advanced for it's time. And unfortunately to much of a waste to reproduce in this day in age.
the fly by at 0:44 is just mind numbing. sounds so amazing. i wish someone would rebuild this engine with modern technology so it would be more reliable
I remember the wonderful sounds, watching racing cars with open pipes, when I was a kid. I had ringing in my ears from the noise. The ringing never went away. Now I'm deaf. Today, we know to wear ear protection.
God's car will surely sound better than this one, it will be right when it hits the road. Obviously the engine in this video is Satan's ride since it isn't perfect and skips a beat now and again.
Nice to see just how much interest the original BRM F1 V-16 race car continues to generate, some 60-odd years down the line. It was certainly ahead of its time in complexity due to miniaturisation of components, but gradually BRM overcame the many problems. Trouble was, just when it was beginning to get reliable around the end of 1954, the Formula 1 goalposts got moved with a change not only of engine size to 2500 cc but also from methanol to gasoline/petrol. That meant the end for a highly supercharged race engine like the BRM V-16, which was designed to run on methanol just like the current Indy cars (albeit turbocharged, not supercharged). Interesting from a historical viewpoint to note that BRM's 'new' race car to meet the now 2.5 litre formula, only had 4 cylinders! It was just as if BRM had decided 'Bigger Was Better', when it came to piston sizes. Also interesting to note that reputedly, Rolls-Royce carried on experimenting with the 'old' V-16 engine using more sophisticated supercharging gizmos, and reckoned it was possible to get 1,000 bhp out of it. Amazing stuff, and an amazing sound, eh?
Pete Naylor To think this was conceived designed and manufactured in a small back street workshop in Bourne Lincolnshire by highly skilled craftsmen who worked for BRM . They even made their own castings from a local foundry on a shoestring budget. If better quality metals had been available at the time it would have been unbeatable, the thing produced so much power it would shear halfshafts on the start line and often had to run de-tuned to aid reliability. Hats off to these men who built these engines and the sound they created. Astonishing
this is what they sound like on a circuit, but if anyone went to the BRM day at Bourne you would know that you cannot watch this car drive past with out your hands firmly on your ears... Beautiful car and beautiful engine
1.5 litre V-16, the sound for this clip is from a CD that accompanies the book "Into The Red" by ex pink floyd drummer Nick Mason, he owns a BRM V-16 and tests this along with the rest of his amazing car collection around a race track in the book, with recordings of each cars engine noises.
69 seconds of pure bliss, this is what F1 is supposed to sound like! Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear this. If this would would be the last thing I'd ever hear, I'd die a happy man!
I listen to this beast every once away for years now like when this video was 3 years old so a little over a decade. Gives the car community much excitement.
I don't think so. I've heard this sound clip and it's from a CD called "Sounds of Goodwood" in which they had sounds from Nick Mason's collection of cars. The BRM V16 was indeed the BRM V16. There are very video clips of the actual H-16 but unfortunately the damage was made when a lot of people used the sound of the BRM V16 with images of the 1967 BRM using the H-16 engine. This led to a lot of people being confused even though some repeatedly pointed out the V16 was in 1950-1951. Front-engine
Absolutely. When I first heard this music, I thought it was at least 7 liters. It has such a deep bass sound, I was shocked to find that it had only 1.5 liter displacement. I must have heard that recording a hundred times and it still makes the hair on the back of my neck. What MUSIC!!!
Its funny when you read Nick Masons book... all those throttle blips were actually the engine cutting out when he gave it too much gas. SUCH a finnicky car but so rewarding to hear. Pure engineering MADNESS.
I've heard this in real life twice. The first time was this exact car and was at Goodwood Festival of speed in about 1997, the second was at Goodwood revival a few years later. This sound good here, but compared to hearing in for real there is no comparison. You have no idea how loud this car is, even at half a mile away you still have to shout at someone standing next to you for them to be able to hear you. The most epic sounding engine ever made bar none.
What makes this engine sound the best in the world is this: Close your eyes and you will not hear an engine, but a beast. An anchient beast that will tear your body apart and eat your soul whole.
Literally the best sound ever. Also worth checking out if you like engine sounds; the Auto Union V16s of the 1930s. The BRM beats all IMHO but the Auto Unions are pretty savage!
The BRM p-15 was from 1949, and it has an amazing sound. With 600 bhp at 12000 rpm it was amazing someone could do it at that time. The small displacement (1500cc) is the limit of its class. Id still prefer this sound over the smallblock v8, it sounds twice as good, at least.
One is the car coming towards the camera, the others are from a distance with the car going past/away from the camera. You don't get that lovely scream until you can't hear the velocity stacks pulling air into the motor.
I love the sound it makes in some the clips, so visceral!!!! Almost like it gets supercharger whine at the high RPM band, love this. Wish I could get my coyote to sound like this.
I feel so fortunate that I heard this monster at full chat 25 or so years ago at the British GP they gave it a run. 2 laps and then probably had to have a full engine rebuild. Never heard it rev so high again.
Thumbs up if you saw the person who uploaded this nick.. And giggled thinking about the corner on Nordschleife, and the fact he must be a fan of that track as well..
That whine sounds unreal. I would have loved to seen any race from the 50's or 60's. You didn't need to look at the car to know what it was, you could just hear it and know.
You can get a sample of this on a CD set called Sounds of Goodwood. It is Nick Mason from Pink Floyd with some of his cars and some good recording equipment. In my opinion this engine is one of the best sounding in the world. The low freq growl combined with the scream of the supercharger, magic.
"The V16 was a thoroughly nasty car," said Moss. "The brakes were OK, and the acceleration was incredible -- until you broke traction -- but everything else I hated, particularly the steering and the driving position." And what about handling? "I don't remember it having any." (from _Chasing the Title_ by Nigel Roebuck)
currious sounding engine isn't it. starts off at idle sounding like a rumbling V8 from a dragster or monster truck. then as the revs rise it slowly shift through the sound of a nascar V8 into what reminds me of the angry growl of a ducati motorbike engine. as for at the top of the rev range, i can't find anything to compare it with. just gives me chills ever time a hear this engine. love it!!!
In the small book I have on the engine ( you can dismantle it with plastic pages in the middle) it states at the back... 1000bhp / ltr is not beyond the bounds of possibility. It all depends on the amount of money can be invested in the project.
![BRM’s Supercharged V16 F1 Car Sounds INSANE [4k] - TG Tunnel Run Ft. THE STIG](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vIWyeynMAi4/mqdefault.jpg)
did a school project on this engine in the 60s teachers didnt believe it was only 1.5 litres,@ 16 cyls. great engineering for those days.still sounds better than a f1
***** I don't wanna 'dis' the engine because it sounds epic. But 'great engineering'? It was one of the most unreliable cars to hit the track. It hardly finished any races. Although I would argue, who needs to finish the race when you sound this good!
Rogue Qall It was an awful engine. Most drivers hated it. and Jackie Stewart compared it to a boat anchor. sounded like a dream though......
Simple answer, they only had points ignition in the 50's which didn't work very well at those high revs. Modern electronic ignition would have sorted it.
+Rogue Qall
It was great Engineering but it's logical that it's unreliable because it has too much moving Parts which are very small . You need 16 cylinders, at least 32 valves, valve springs for every valve, a supercharger,... Everything in very small dimensions so something is about to fail everytime
+ascitiesburn672
Stewart was talking about the BRM H16 engine from 1967 which was another engine but with same problems
This is the most intimidating engine sound I've ever heard. I love it!
Yes it sure is. How only 1.5L sounds that menacing! I will say however the Mazda R26B gives it a good run for its money in intimidation and I think has the edge in 'angriness'! Both are brilliant sounding engines in my opinion.
Mark Anderson Both are greats to their times and great classics. This is * mind blown effect * mind blowing
There are people who like the sound of rotary engines. Sound exactly like my 2-stroke Victa. On with the earmuffs.
antechinus100 the R26B doesn't sound like an average rotary though. Or anything else for that matter! ;-)
antechinus100 the R26B is an outstanding car with an amazing engine note. It's a classic. Can't say things like that about a classic
This is really an amazing engine! A 1.5 liter supercharged V16 producing 600hp @ 12000rpm! It's crazy...
Not one, but two superchargers.
I was witness to one of the few wins ever registered by the BRM. The race was at Charterhall in southern Scotland, and the car was driven by Mike Hawthorne: the time 1952. Mike wore his peculiar crash helmet and lucky bow tie. The sound of the car was a characteristic scream. - a sound I shall never forget. BTW I have still not heard the right sound reproduced by runs of surviving machines. The car I saw had the large grill and was finished in British racing green.
Wow. How old were you then?
This man is like 85 and he not only remembers that day to the point of differentiating the sound, he knows how to comment normally on UA-cam with slang like BTW. I wish to be as clued in as you at that age
That is one master peice that will never to be equiled.
benzman 113 I beg to differ
I quite agree an amazing sound and all home built in a workshop / garage only a few miles away from where I live .
Very clever engineering skills the parts that were unreliable were always the parts BRM couldn't make themselves, ignition systems magnetos and solenoids.
Modern engine mapping an ECU and electronic ignition would solve all its problems today and make it an unbelievably powerful beast.
Apart from connaught that are building an X20 engine that will be better than this in every way 😂
Bugatti
I honestly get goosebumps from this
cant believe how similar the last high rpm clip sounds to modern screamers. this was in the 50s when stuffing aircraft engines in race cars was the norm.
I thought the aircraft engine use was more the 20's and 30's ?
JINXED _JINXED_ yeah you are probably right
Aircraft engines usually top out about 3000 rpm, unless you want the complexity of a geared prop . This beast was revving over 10000 according to this story . It’s an amazing bit of Engineering. It is a shame they didn’t build a 3.0 litre version of their gorgeous 2.2 lite motor . That engine was a ripper.
I Hope the new Bugatti will sound as crazy as this 🙏🏻🤩
I don't believe so, it would be muted if turbocharge were installed
It is now @@udontknowme1654
It's naturally aspirated @udontknowme1654
Wow, the 1950s F1 cars make better sounds than I initially thought! Great sound!
if this was the sound that came out of my wifes mouth when she talked id listen to her
ROFL :D
Even my wife thinks your comment is hilarious
A real lol here
I think it would get annoying after a while.
@@NicB-Creations, never. I get goose bumps every time I hera this BRM v16 engine.
1.5l over 600hp at 15.000 rpm.
In the 50s
Well they never drove it over 12.000 rpm and maximum 450 hp but still one of motorings most glorious fails
+TheNecromancer6666 it also horrible reliability so they say.
Themayseffect I think the H16 was the unreliable car. This one had problems with ignition due to the high revs and supercharging. You can hear the misfire.
Everything about it made it unreliable. The design was simply to advanced for it's time. And unfortunately to much of a waste to reproduce in this day in age.
It needed electronic ignition, points just could not hack 16 cylinders at such high revs.
glorious Fails? have you heard yourself you clown. you clearly dont understand proper engineering and the work involved
some cars make me smile when i hear them but this one just gave me that tingle down my spine
Now Bugatti is going to carry the V16 legacy!
This is the 4th time I’ve watched this today
How many times upto now? (16.10.2020)
the fly by at 0:44 is just mind numbing. sounds so amazing. i wish someone would rebuild this engine with modern technology so it would be more reliable
Google. They have now!
Engineering wise, it was a marvel, but it was just too heavy & complicated.
The new Bugatti
Oh my god, words can't describe how wonderful that sound is.
Who is here after the bugatti v16 release
Thanks to Nick Mason!
I remember the wonderful sounds, watching racing cars with open pipes, when I was a kid. I had ringing in my ears from the noise. The ringing never went away. Now I'm deaf. Today, we know to wear ear protection.
I’ve listened to this video at least once a month for the last year. That sound still gives me goosebumps. Especially on the flyby.❤️
The proof of the existence of God
matkarp
Ironically designed by a man.
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and drives a sorted BRM V16.
God's car will surely sound better than this one, it will be right when it hits the road. Obviously the engine in this video is Satan's ride since it isn't perfect and skips a beat now and again.
Proof of the existence of satan more like it. God wouldn't make something so deliciously wrong lol
still love this sound ,16 cyl 1.5 litre
***** I love it... all this sound from a 1.5ltr engine haha, it must have the biggest supercharger in the world fitted to it!
I have the same clip as you and I try to listen to it at least once a month. It sends chills up and down my spine every time I hear it!
back when engines actually mattered and the only aerodynamics were the streamline
What a brute. Supercharged, so no nasty turbo lag.
Nice to see just how much interest the original BRM F1 V-16 race car continues to generate, some 60-odd years down the line. It was certainly ahead of its time in complexity due to miniaturisation of components, but gradually BRM overcame the many problems. Trouble was, just when it was beginning to get reliable around the end of 1954, the Formula 1 goalposts got moved with a change not only of engine size to 2500 cc but also from methanol to gasoline/petrol. That meant the end for a highly supercharged race engine like the BRM V-16, which was designed to run on methanol just like the current Indy cars (albeit turbocharged, not supercharged). Interesting from a historical viewpoint to note that BRM's 'new' race car to meet the now 2.5 litre formula, only had 4 cylinders! It was just as if BRM had decided 'Bigger Was Better', when it came to piston sizes. Also interesting to note that reputedly, Rolls-Royce carried on experimenting with the 'old' V-16 engine using more sophisticated supercharging gizmos, and reckoned it was possible to get 1,000 bhp out of it. Amazing stuff, and an amazing sound, eh?
Pete Naylor
To think this was conceived designed and manufactured in a small back street workshop in Bourne Lincolnshire by highly skilled craftsmen who worked for BRM . They even made their own castings from a local foundry on a shoestring budget.
If better quality metals had been available at the time it would have been unbeatable, the thing produced so much power it would shear halfshafts on the start line and often had to run de-tuned to aid reliability. Hats off to these men who built these engines and the sound they created. Astonishing
great recording cheers, and a fab engine sound
this is what they sound like on a circuit, but if anyone went to the BRM day at Bourne you would know that you cannot watch this car drive past with out your hands firmly on your ears... Beautiful car and beautiful engine
love to see it reproduce with today's metallurgy would be quite an engine to admire and perhaps for some to collect, incredible sound
1.5 litre V-16, the sound for this clip is from a CD that accompanies the book "Into The Red" by ex pink floyd drummer Nick Mason, he owns a BRM V-16 and tests this along with the rest of his amazing car collection around a race track in the book, with recordings of each cars engine noises.
Hooooo-leey crap! That's amazing. Imagine how awesome it would be to watch professional motorsports if modern day cars sounded this badass.
They sounded even better before F1 went turbo hybrid.
There are no words. It's the most f***ing incredible sound -- gives me the chills. I'll play this one over and over !!!
wow very nice tribute vid i like how it was put together. all you needewd was teh engine sound and its perfect.
69 seconds of pure bliss, this is what F1 is supposed to sound like! Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear this. If this would would be the last thing I'd ever hear, I'd die a happy man!
11 years later. we've truly lost that :(
Only nascar still really roars. but no cars that scream :(
@@user-pc5qj2ix2c Indeed, eleven years have passed, but the V16 still sounds as good as ever!
I listen to this beast every once away for years now like when this video was 3 years old so a little over a decade. Gives the car community much excitement.
wow, that engines note is so smooth that it is just incredible. i can't imagine how great it would be to drive....
That's the recording from the CD that came with the book "Into the red" by Nick Mason
This is downright awesome. The sound is amazing!! It sounds V8'ish, but better! Incredible!!
God that sounds bloody brilliant!!!!!
Thank you!
NICE SOUND !
Holy crap i seriously had an eargasm through the whole video my hair is still standing
Fricking hell remember seeing this in 1980's at Silverstone, very very unreliable but the sound.. Unforgettable..
wow! that sound is sick!
Im not even a fan of v8 engines and v16 but this sound is just next level
thank you and fine photo assembly. love the one off six pots
Such an ADDICTIVE sound
When Darth Vader breaks wind , this is what it sounds like.
Incredible! one of the best sounding engines Ever!
Excellent sound!!
That sound is unbelievably awesome :D
When u posted this comentary i was just 1 year old, insane
I don't think so. I've heard this sound clip and it's from a CD called "Sounds of Goodwood" in which they had sounds from Nick Mason's collection of cars.
The BRM V16 was indeed the BRM V16.
There are very video clips of the actual H-16 but unfortunately the damage was made when a lot of people used the sound of the BRM V16 with images of the 1967 BRM using the H-16 engine. This led to a lot of people being confused even though some repeatedly pointed out the V16 was in 1950-1951. Front-engine
Absolutely. When I first heard this music, I thought it was at least 7 liters. It has such a deep bass sound, I was shocked to find that it had only 1.5 liter displacement. I must have heard that recording a hundred times and it still makes the hair on the back of my neck. What MUSIC!!!
Nice sound
Its funny when you read Nick Masons book... all those throttle blips were actually the engine cutting out when he gave it too much gas. SUCH a finnicky car but so rewarding to hear. Pure engineering MADNESS.
insane sound ...just awesome ..
I've heard this in real life twice. The first time was this exact car and was at Goodwood Festival of speed in about 1997, the second was at Goodwood revival a few years later. This sound good here, but compared to hearing in for real there is no comparison. You have no idea how loud this car is, even at half a mile away you still have to shout at someone standing next to you for them to be able to hear you. The most epic sounding engine ever made bar none.
The only f1 engine that can rival the sound of the f1 v10s.
More true words have never been spoken.
this is the gost sound of an engine, never replicated lost for legends
wow that sound is good!
the sound give you the sense of an engine with a lot of torque, pretty good
The most incredible engine sound ever.
. . . WOW !!, . . . what a beautiful sound!!
The sound, unreal, amazing, in those days... I adore that car.
What makes this engine sound the best in the world is this:
Close your eyes and you will not hear an engine, but a beast. An anchient beast that will tear your body apart and eat your soul whole.
Possibly the most remarkable sounding engine ever for me. Indescribable.
wow!! nice sound!
Amazing sound.
Literally the best sound ever. Also worth checking out if you like engine sounds; the Auto Union V16s of the 1930s. The BRM beats all IMHO but the Auto Unions are pretty savage!
The BRM p-15 was from 1949, and it has an amazing sound. With 600 bhp at 12000 rpm it was amazing someone could do it at that time. The small displacement (1500cc) is the limit of its class. Id still prefer this sound over the smallblock v8, it sounds twice as good, at least.
I love the music of Mozart and I love this BRM.
Oh!
I do love such carefully thought out music.
One is the car coming towards the camera, the others are from a distance with the car going past/away from the camera. You don't get that lovely scream until you can't hear the velocity stacks pulling air into the motor.
wow just amazing
As a kid, I could imitate any car or truck sound, this however, would have stumped me. It’s like a car singing opera.
This is Crazy !
Best sounding Thing I´ve ever heard
I'll definitely do that! Thanks!
looks awesome
ok. that is the best engine sound i ever heard!!
amazing sound simply amazing
It would be very interesting to see a drag car with this engine. And that snoring is spectacular. 😍🚀
Quite literally, that sound makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. What a STAGGERING sound that is! Glorious and ludicrous!
You should play this at 1am in the morning with the speakers on the deck - sounds even better
I love the sound it makes in some the clips, so visceral!!!! Almost like it gets supercharger whine at the high RPM band, love this. Wish I could get my coyote to sound like this.
MrEgopathy It is supercharger whine. Supercharged V16 1500cc.
I feel so fortunate that I heard this monster at full chat 25 or so years ago at the British GP they gave it a run. 2 laps and then probably had to have a full engine rebuild. Never heard it rev so high again.
Thumbs up if you saw the person who uploaded this nick.. And giggled thinking about the corner on Nordschleife, and the fact he must be a fan of that track as well..
Master piece
Love it thanks guys
That whine sounds unreal. I would have loved to seen any race from the 50's or 60's. You didn't need to look at the car to know what it was, you could just hear it and know.
ahhh. beautiful sound....
You can get a sample of this on a CD set called Sounds of Goodwood. It is Nick Mason from Pink Floyd with some of his cars and some good recording equipment. In my opinion this engine is one of the best sounding in the world. The low freq growl combined with the scream of the supercharger, magic.
for me is the best engine sound!!!!! just wonderful!!!!
"The V16 was a thoroughly nasty car," said Moss. "The brakes were OK, and the acceleration was incredible -- until you broke traction -- but everything else I hated, particularly the steering and the driving position." And what about handling? "I don't remember it having any." (from _Chasing the Title_ by Nigel Roebuck)
currious sounding engine isn't it. starts off at idle sounding like a rumbling V8 from a dragster or monster truck. then as the revs rise it slowly shift through the sound of a nascar V8 into what reminds me of the angry growl of a ducati motorbike engine. as for at the top of the rev range, i can't find anything to compare it with. just gives me chills ever time a hear this engine. love it!!!
Goosebumps!
goosebumps, constant goosebumps from this vid
If that doesn't give you chills, i don't know what will.
In the small book I have on the engine ( you can dismantle it with plastic pages in the middle) it states at the back... 1000bhp / ltr is not beyond the bounds of possibility. It all depends on the amount of money can be invested in the project.
Lindo!!! Chega a arrepiar!
I think this is probably the greatest sound to come out of a man made object, astonishing!