It's actually quite quiet for what it is, especially since I got the new lifters put in two years ago. I think the fact that I'm starting it in a mostly-empty garage amplifies the noise significantly, plus you have to keep in mind this kid is driven around in a regular, recent-model gasser, so she expects basically no noise. And she was standing about two feet from the tailpipe when it started ... I don't find that that particularly smells good on any car. AFAIK my car rarely smokes and doesn't smell that bad (it stinks mightily when it gets really hot out ... so does my Jeep .. and I've noticed that has been much worse since the ULSD, oddly enough).
Hard for me to see my car from someone else's persepective, especially an ADD 7-year-old. 
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