After a particularly nasty natural disaster, there is one reliable metric that FEMA turns to in order to determine the severity of the damage: The “Waffle House Index.”

Green indicates that Waffle Houses in the affected area are serving a full menu, meaning that the damage is limited. Yellow signals more extensive damage, resulting in a limited menu (the generators are on and food supplies are low).

Finally, red means severe damage has forced the restaurant to close its doors — something the Waffle House prides itself on doing very rarely. In fact, all but one of the 22 Waffle Houses that lost power during Hurricane Irene were up and running by Wednesday evening.

“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed?,” says FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, “that’s really bad. That’s where you go to work.”

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very badass nem, you're way more mature than I am though. At least one of those would have some sort of sexual reproductive organs if it was me.

Don't thnk for a minute we do not talk about doing that for fun.

What's scarier than a demon chasing you?

A demon with a 12" boner chasing you!

After a particularly nasty natural disaster, there is one reliable metric that FEMA turns to in order to determine the severity of the damage: The “Waffle House Index.”

Green indicates that Waffle Houses in the affected area are serving a full menu, meaning that the damage is limited. Yellow signals more extensive damage, resulting in a limited menu (the generators are on and food supplies are low).

Finally, red means severe damage has forced the restaurant to close its doors — something the Waffle House prides itself on doing very rarely. In fact, all but one of the 22 Waffle Houses that lost power during Hurricane Irene were up and running by Wednesday evening.

“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed?,” says FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, “that’s really bad. That’s where you go to work.”

another reason to look forward to the apocalypse

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very badass nem, you're way more mature than I am though. At least one of those would have some sort of sexual reproductive organs if it was me.

Don't thnk for a minute we do not talk about doing that for fun.

What's scarier than a demon chasing you?

A demon with a 12" boner chasing you!

Not sure I have never been chased.

But either way I would run very fast.

Okay I just edited this so it wouldn't be confusing.

Finding vent mach for multiple drivers,

do you calculate the vent mach for one driver, then multiply that result by the total amount of drivers being used.

ex: you plug in all the info for one driver into the equation, you get 10 for the result. Your using 4 drivers, so 4*10, 40 would be the vent mach for four drivers. (just made up numbers for easy explanation)

OR

do you multiply the reference efficiency by the total amount of drivers being used?

The unofficial Army Response to Soulja Boy.

Go watch. Or look up Solja Boy says 'Fuck the Army Troops' first then watch.

J

Stefan, two drivers moving air in 2x the space = 2x the air moving

Really digging the sound of this too

The stock turbo sounds better IMO. If they made it in 2007, I'd have one instead of the ML. Perhaps my next car

The CL is a V12, I'd think a sound like that would be difficult to replicate in a V6.

Not the same, but sound comes from a cam more than anything and you have to like ones that sound like they want to do something at high rpm's.

Stefan, two drivers moving air in 2x the space = 2x the air moving

Enclosure volume isn't changing, but I understand twice the amount of air moving, so you would simply multiply the end result by the # of drivers?

Yes, but why. If its for performance gains I am down, but to be loud I don't get.

As I said I am not after loud, but deep, strong sound.

Something like that, but much quieter if possible. And more Vroooom than Broooom

Something wrong with that guys mic. My 6.3 sounds way meaner. Gotta love modern performance 8's.

Mission accomplished indeed. BTW, the v12 CL is the 65

Only a V8 will sound like a V8. You can manipulate the sound with cams, valve angles, overlap, firing order and controlling the movement of exhaust pulses, but nothing will have a deep tone like a V8.

Do a youtube search for the original Ford GT40s. They had a very unique exhaust setup that allowed the pulse from one cylinder to pull the exhaust from the next exhausting cylinder. If you've ever heard one in person, you'd swear the car was running a 4 cylinder with no exhaust. It's really distinct.

V10s and V12s will have a higher pitch due to the firing order and pulse separation. There's just no way around it. Four and Six cylinder engines are similar, but inline engines can be an exception. If you ever get a chance, listen to a straight 8 Duesenberg or an old Ford flathead V8 with open pipes. Both will blow your mind.

I'm sure Sean could give a better explanation. I'm sure he's seen this in measurements and understands the physics behind it.

Stefan, two drivers moving air in 2x the space = 2x the air moving

Enclosure volume isn't changing, but I understand twice the amount of air moving, so you would simply multiply the end result by the # of drivers?

Sorry that wasn't clear, wherever the "air pump" is in the equation you should double it.

I'm sure Sean could give a better explanation. I'm sure he's seen this in measurements and understands the physics behind it.

You did a pretty good job. The acoustic phenomena that you are describing are engine orders. Basically a forced vibe/driven response based on the speed of the parts in the engine. The only way to describe it or measure it accurately is to have a 3D graph where you keep track of RPM, Frequency, and Amplitude. These orders will excite resonances but things get unique because all orders excite all resonances but at different rpms. Then you add firing noises and things get rather signaturish and indeed nothing that isn't too similar won't sound the same.

Of course, I think Teo is just looking for something a cam and a muffler can easily provide. IMO even better to try to do it without the muffler as exciting some of the resonances above in the wrong way can be downright annoying. Of course buying a system can be a different story.

Mission accomplished indeed. BTW, the v12 CL is the 65

that is the current generation isn't it, so V8. The previous 63's had a V12 no?

Stefan, two drivers moving air in 2x the space = 2x the air moving

Enclosure volume isn't changing, but I understand twice the amount of air moving, so you would simply multiply the end result by the # of drivers?

Sorry that wasn't clear, wherever the "air pump" is in the equation you should double it.

Okay that would be reference efficiency.

Doubling the reference efficiency (two drivers) is the same as doubling the power input on a single driver, which in a perfect world makes sense, but for the formula it seems to work out.

So by doubling the reference efficiency, the vent speed increases but doesn't double the initial vent speed.

Mission accomplished indeed. BTW, the v12 CL is the 65

that is the current generation isn't it, so V8. The previous 63's had a V12 no?

Yep, they just canned the N/A version of the V12