981s sports exhaust

[rikg24]

Ive recently bought a 981s boxster with factory fitted sports exhaust when i press button i cant hear any difference whatsoever should it be easily noticeable?

[Shiverman]

Definitely. I would say your exhaust valves may be stuck if there is no audible difference.

[n4aat]

Some difference up to 3k revs and loads of difference above that.

Also, pops and bangs are 10x more. Too much anywhere but the open roads. Always knock it off in towns as sounds daft.

Edited by n4aat on Sunday 13th May 21:33

[rikg24]

it pops and bangs plenty on sports plus but nothing noticeable at low revs

[Green1man]

It’s really the combination of the sport button and the Pse button that gives the most impact with the sport exhaust.

But it’s easy to check if the valves are stuck. Look under the back of the car, the valves are easily visible in be back corners, eyeball them with the engine off, then start the engine and look under the back corners and check the position changes with the Pse button.

[n4aat]

rikg24 said:

it pops and bangs plenty on sports plus but nothing noticeable at low revs

They are all slightly different I guess.

[rikg24]

thats great green1man i will check in morning thanks

[Sam_A]

There is very minimal difference in my opinion between having the exhaust on or off, have yet to find any video that shows otherwise. Far too quiet in my opinion I've got a new exhaust on order.

[Swimfinz]

rikg24 said:

Ive recently bought a 981s boxster with factory fitted sports exhaust when i press button i cant hear any difference whatsoever should it be easily noticeable?

If similar to that on the GT4, PSE adds very little “noise” at low revs— apart from a few pops/bangs on lift off..... The meat comes above 4K revs when the character change is quite noticeable.... You certainly won’t notice ANYTHING at idle (unlike my 987 Spyder— where PSE added a gutteral “growl” even at low engine speeds.....!!)

[Maxym]

You children with your pops and bangs. I'd rather listen to flat six orchestral music, not a rorty exhaust. Even though I have one on my CGTS.