danglerb

Just take the sound file and analyze the pulse pattern, compare it to some cars and something is bound to show a hard match even with studio tinkering.

As for value at BJ, my impression is that movie cars tend to have MUCH less value than celebrity owned cars, because as in this case this isn't "the" Risky Business 928, its one of 5.

Stephen Baldwins 928 just went for ... reserve not met the 2nd time at less than $4k, almost made ti to $6k last time, but maybe people lost interest, or looked closer at the car this time. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsc...681138QQihZ003

928ntslow

Still ain't buyin it..I have listened to it several times and no stock 1981 car sounds like that. I actually htink it may have been a 78 or 79 as the steering wheel is a dead giveaway. Remember the screaching of the tires I had mentioned???? DUBBED! Anohter question, how does a steller car of the day...have a hole rusted in the rear muffler??? The car was a world class car and on everbody's drool list...an owner would let this happen? I remain a skeptic of these things.

Oh well, it really doesn't matter what I think anyway...it won't affect a thing about this car.

Airflite40

The 5spd driver car was a 79. Hence the wheel.

The auto driver was an 81.

Of course the tires were dubbed, that's what I said earlier.

What motive would the film crew have to lie about something like that?

The movie was not endorsed by Porsche in any way, so why lie?

The notes said it was a 928 with a rusted hole in the rear muffler from which the sound was recorded.
The car on screen did not have a rusted muffler, it was a different car.

Stuff rusts in Chicago.

Ed Hughes

Dubbed is one thing, whether it is a 928 is another. They could certainly dub in 928 sounds taken at another time. There are a lot of soundtracks manipulated to enhance the viewing experience. Maybe they wanted more tire screech.....

I've got wav files of the movie where TC says "Porsche, there is no s...", and the movie on DVR. It is a 928. In fact it sounds a lot like mine right now with the RMB and X pipe. Maybe the rust thing is a twist of the facts, maybe they actually drilled the muffler to enhance the sound? The pulsing of the exhaust wreaks of a 90 degree V-8, it doesn't have the high RPM whail of a Ferrari.

Tony

YOU....outta here. No soup for you.

heinrich

Agreed. I don't own any stock 928's and all mine sound very like the Risky Business car. No Ferrari engines in mine Airflite above makes sense. If production notes say it was a 1956 Anglia with one dead cylinder, that is what it was.

Randy V

Great work, Borys! Send him the link to this thread if you haven't already.

I'm not fully convinced of the engine sounds being from a 928 'with a hole rusted in the muffler'. Our stainless steel mufflers don't rust...

Randy V

I must say Keith that you do seem to be a bitter fellow of late. Is the Pac NW weather gettin' you down?

Just sayin'...

PorKen

Airflite40

I did send him a link and encouraged him to post, he said he would let me explain it to the board.
He did take a look at the thread, which is why he explained to me the exhaust sounds.

Lewis sounded like a great guy, anyone who will just chat with you for a few hours about 928's and Risky Business is A-okay in my book.

928ntslow

LOL...Not at all

I guess I could changed things from "who gives a rats ***" to...uhmm..."who gives a rats tushee". I think that may have changed the tone

Flott Leben

Airflite40:

Thanks for researching, collecting and posting this info. As with anything, there are always those that will not acccept the truth no matter how much proof you put forward. Common sense dictates that a 928 was used to make the sound for the movie. Why would they take the time to locate just the right sounding Ferrari, wire it up for recording, take it out to record the various needed sounds and bring it back to the studio to dub it in - when they had a great sounding (and authentic sounding) car sitting right there in the production lot? Would a true Porsche 928 have sounded so bad it couldn't be used? I think not. I also think your theory may be right: the sound crew added a little extra exhaust venting to get a louder and rougher bite to the exhaust note.

Also, please give my thanks to Lewis Johnson for all his hard work on this movie icon. Anybody who was old enough to see RB when it came out remembers the stir that car created at that time and what a large role in the movie it played. Without the 928 there would have been no plot and Joel never would have gotten into Princeton.

Could you also ask him how we can specifically help get his film to Sundance?

atb

I would think that the sound studios would just have canned engine sounds. Why bother mic'ing up a particular car for a single movie? It's not like years later people are going to be going back to their VCR's, DVD's, etc., and actually replaying the one or two scenes in a movie with the car's exhaust note just to identify it's authenticity.
THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS.

Flott Leben

Authenticity and pride in your craft?? I think those traits still existed back then . . . .

We are pretty ridiculous, aren't we?

928ntslow

In the 80's!?!?! I don't think there couldn't have been a more superficial "plastic" age in the US than at that point in time. <<<<(see smilely)