Opinions on loud exhausts

Opinions on loud exhausts

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ddom

6,657 posts

47 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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bigothunter said:
Even with the window down you're still perceiving interior sound quality, just the noise paths have changed.
What about no roof, or windows. What about side exit exhausts, what about soft tops. It’s clearly understood you wish all cars to be silent, but others don’t agree.

David Beer

3,982 posts

266 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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V8 Stang said:
I have a MBRP cat back on my Mustang GT, which is fairly loud on start up and high throttle, however i don't think its too loud at idle/low revs.
While cruising i can barely hear it.

I often leave for work at 06:30 and my parking spot is right to the side of my neighbour, who a year in is yet to complain.
However i start the engine and immediately drive off.

No one else has ever complained to me, however guess most people expect a mustang to be loud!

I live next to a main road on a hill - just up from a roundabout, so get people flooring it up the road, which TBH i don't mind, In fact i smile when something tasty floors it up the road smile

However what i cannot stand is this latest fascination with fake pops... Vroom- pop pop pop vroom pop pop pop vroom pop pop pop...........

Just why? it sounds awful and fake frown
Sorry what is a mbrp ? I had my Ford sports exhaust fitted by Bristol st in Stroud, like it. Had the service done at the same time.
It’s not too loud and being an auto with the flappy paddles in towns I can keep the Revs down so as not to annoy ‘

chuckh

194 posts

268 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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On the right car like super cars awesome.

On anything else the car goes into the look at me I’m a tit category......

CaptainSensib1e

1,432 posts

220 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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I have an aftermarket exhaust. It's a bit noisy on startup but soon settles down, and if you keep the revs down it isn't massively loud.

I think what most people don't like is cars with louder exhausts being driven hard/revved inappropriately, for example, through a residential area. Which is more to do with driving style than the exhaust itself. It's just a lot of exhaust noise normally signals a car being driven in spirited manner, than the exhaust itself being the issue.

m444ttb

3,160 posts

228 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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Where I live are plenty of noisy cars and bikes in a built up area (my 911 included). The centre of the estate is a park which really amplifies noise. The people that you really notice are those who drive like tts. That can be anything from very recent BMWs to 15 year old Corsas. Most people with cars like that manage the find some restraint, particularly at night. I usually close the exhaust valves when I enter the estate anyway but it’s mostly 20mph so you really would have to try. However there is a special place in hell for the pop & bang crowd. It has only ever been Audis and Fiestas round here and they seem to last a few weeks and are then never hear of again. Whether that’s because they get bored of it, bin the car showing off or what I’m never sure.

pti

1,694 posts

143 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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anonymous said:
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PH User

22,154 posts

107 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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anonymous said:
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smokin

AW111

9,455 posts

132 months

Wednesday 7th April 2021
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One thing this thread highlights is how selfish some people are.

"I don't care how many people I annoy" is the subtext of a lot of posts.

Ali95

14 posts

59 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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Ian Geary said:
stinkyspanner said:
When I was in my twenties I loved them, and often had them on my cars. Now I'm nearer 50 I hate them
+1

My former mr2 turbo had a stainless de cat and blue flame exhaust. Droned like hell on the motorway and would set car alarms off (back in the day when everyone had dodgy after market car alarms) in multistory car parks.

But I did like it and it was legal/mot-able.

Nowadays though I see them (or should that be hear them?) as largely anti social.

The worst vehicle round out way though is a small single cylinder motorbike that is ridden WOT everywhere, with practically no exhaust system.

Not only does it sound st, it's so fking slow it takes ages to get beyond hearing distance.. literally minutes will pass before it's gone.

At least the tts with noisy cars have the decency to drive by and be gone promptly.
Same boat as you apart from mine's de catted and a blitz nur spec exhaust.... it's really loud on full chat and anything over 2.5k rpms. But I keep it under that to be civil 😉

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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I'd probably agree if I had a Hyundai Tucson! laugh

I've had 4 BMWs with the same N52 engine. You could barely hear it in my E91 325i, can just about hear it in my current E90 330i and could really hear it in my first E86 Z4 although all were stock. laugh Although I thought it sounded best in my 2nd E86 with a custom cat-back exhaust!

And I'm sure 130is, 530is, 630is and 730is with the same engine sounded different according to the application - so which one is "stock"?

ddom

6,657 posts

47 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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AW111 said:
One thing this thread highlights is how selfish some people are.

"I don't care how many people I annoy" is the subtext of a lot of posts.
And how precious some are......they'd be annoyed at anything anyway.
AW111 said:
It didn't idle below about 1500 rpm, didn't rev cleanly until fully warmed up, and had no power below about 5,000 rpm
Amazing.

Edited by ddom on Thursday 8th April 00:38

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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ddom said:
AW111 said:
One thing this thread highlights is how selfish some people are.

"I don't care how many people I annoy" is the subtext of a lot of posts.
And how precious some are......they'd be annoyed at anything anyway.
AW111 said:
It didn't idle below about 1500 rpm, didn't rev cleanly until fully warmed up, and had no power below about 5,000 rpm
Amazing.

Edited by ddom on Thursday 8th April 00:38
I doubt too many people would enjoy listening to your car that couldn't idle below 1,500 rpm and couldn't rev cleanly until fully warmed up!

Just decide whether to stay selfish, or get your car sorted properly - or maybe restrain yourself from making diametrically opposed posts!

bigothunter

11,069 posts

59 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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ddom said:
bigothunter said:
Even with the window down you're still perceiving interior sound quality, just the noise paths have changed.
What about no roof, or windows. What about side exit exhausts, what about soft tops. It’s clearly understood you wish all cars to be silent, but others don’t agree.
Have you actually read my posts? I'm an advocate of sporting exhaust sound quality on road cars providing they meet legal noise requirements. But I don't see the need for excessively load exhausts which are anti-social and often illegal.

You need to calm down dear tongue out

AW111

9,455 posts

132 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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Mr Tidy said:
ddom said:
AW111 said:
One thing this thread highlights is how selfish some people are.

"I don't care how many people I annoy" is the subtext of a lot of posts.
And how precious some are......they'd be annoyed at anything anyway.
AW111 said:
It didn't idle below about 1500 rpm, didn't rev cleanly until fully warmed up, and had no power below about 5,000 rpm
Amazing.

Edited by ddom on Thursday 8th April 00:38
I doubt too many people would enjoy listening to your car that couldn't idle below 1,500 rpm and couldn't rev cleanly until fully warmed up!

Just decide whether to stay selfish, or get your car sorted properly - or maybe restrain yourself from making diametrically opposed posts!
Nice stalking, to dig up a post about a car that's been dead for nearly 40 years, in a thread about stupid things you did to your first car.

Clearly reading comprehension is as hard for both of you idiots as consideration.


ps I quietened that car down when I found out that it was annoying people.


Edited by AW111 on Thursday 8th April 03:14

pti

1,694 posts

143 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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Ali95 said:
Ian Geary said:
stinkyspanner said:
When I was in my twenties I loved them, and often had them on my cars. Now I'm nearer 50 I hate them
+1

My former mr2 turbo had a stainless de cat and blue flame exhaust. Droned like hell on the motorway and would set car alarms off (back in the day when everyone had dodgy after market car alarms) in multistory car parks.

But I did like it and it was legal/mot-able.

Nowadays though I see them (or should that be hear them?) as largely anti social.

The worst vehicle round out way though is a small single cylinder motorbike that is ridden WOT everywhere, with practically no exhaust system.

Not only does it sound st, it's so fking slow it takes ages to get beyond hearing distance.. literally minutes will pass before it's gone.

At least the tts with noisy cars have the decency to drive by and be gone promptly.
Same boat as you apart from mine's de catted and a blitz nur spec exhaust.... it's really loud on full chat and anything over 2.5k rpms. But I keep it under that to be civil ??
I sold the same car last year: Blitz Nur-Spec, decat, boost wound up, MR2 Turbo. It was pretty obnoxious to be fair, but was an infrequently used weekend car and I don't drive like a in residential areas. At full-chat I enjoyed the sound (granted a large part of that is the turbo spooling over your shoulder) and accompanying flames. Was awful at 70mph without the bung fitted, though.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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AW111 said:
One thing this thread PH highlights is how selfish some people are.

"I don't care how many people I annoy" is the subtext of a lot of posts.
FTFY. smile

PH is a portal into the mindset of those with enthusiasm for or involvement with cars that goes beyond white goods functionality.

The best strategy is to not demean oneself by lengthy engagements with the more notably selfish and entitled proponents and move on.

ddom

6,657 posts

47 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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AW111 said:
Nice stalking, to dig up a post about a car that's been dead for nearly 40 years, in a thread about stupid things you did to your first car.

Clearly reading comprehension is as hard for both of you idiots as consideration.


ps I quietened that car down when I found out that it was annoying people.


Edited by AW111 on Thursday 8th April 03:14
Apology accepted rofl

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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bigothunter said:
Why is this thread focussed purely on exterior noise when only interior sound quality matters to the driver? scratchchin
Because exterior noise is what other people moan about, and unless you reroute the exhaust into the cabin it's the route by which it becomes internal noise?

And of course, if you have a convertible you are outside.

ddom

6,657 posts

47 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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bigothunter said:
Have you actually read my posts? I'm an advocate of sporting exhaust sound quality on road cars providing they meet legal noise requirements. But I don't see the need for excessively load exhausts which are anti-social and often illegal.

You need to calm down dear tongue out
Yes, you have a specific set of criteria, which exclude yourself from falling into the category of owners which you’re protesting about. Just like that other chap. It’s actually funny.

bigothunter

11,069 posts

59 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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otolith said:
bigothunter said:
Why is this thread focussed purely on exterior noise when only interior sound quality matters to the driver? scratchchin
Because exterior noise is what other people moan about, and unless you reroute the exhaust into the cabin it's the route by which it becomes internal noise?

And of course, if you have a convertible you are outside.
Exhaust noise is both air and structure borne. Usually it is not the dominant noise in the interior.

Again I will suggest the reasons most people fit excessively loud exhausts is to show off or annoy others. All seems rather silly to me silly