Compared to straight pipe, you would have a short pipe. Being so much closer to the engine, you'd get more noise. Even straight pipe dampens the noise a bit.
In Germany its usually the fast cars that get pulled over for being too loud, my exhaust pipe on my old car was completely rusted through and I drove through a police check where they pull everyone over.
They didnt say anything regarding the exhaust.
I replaced it before the next inspection, because I would have never passed with it rusted through.
Literally straight-piping your car is one of the cheapest mods.
You actually have to pay more money if you want more performance and for it to be (relatively) quiet. That's one of the reasons loud vehicles are so common because and best solution for more performance is also the cheapest.
(It is more complicated than that, but this isn't the car community to where the nuances matter)
None that are really worth visiting. Cars is one. I think there's a classic car one as well but there are a handful of new posts there every week which makes it mostly useless. Such a shame since Reddit's car subs (and there were quite a few of them) were quite well trafficked.
Yup. When my exhaust fell off, I replaced it with straight pipe because it was the cheapest option. I also don't rev my engine through neighborhoods, so no body cares. I can't tell much of a noise difference in or out. I think the turbocharger did most of the damping.
That's kinda what threw me off cause straight pipes are cheap and probably the loudest an exhaust you can get it just sounds like shit hence why most cars guys get simply weaker mufflers so basically if you just want a car to be loud straight pipes are the go to but if the car guy wants his car to sound good they get the expensive weak muffler otherwise they have to tune the engine for the sound it's self to sound good on a straight pipe sacrificing performance ironically from what I've been told the fastest cars on the road are actually silent only making noise when they get up to speed spuling up the turbos and making a loud booming backfire when downshifting
See, Im a car guy and this thought process bugs me. Now at a certain noise level or manner of behavior I do agree but if I can offer a counterpoint?
Every school holidays or long weekend around where I live the roads get absolutely clogged with caravan and boat owners just looking to escape. Be among nature or on the water and forget about their responsibilities for a few days and I just have to sit there and quietly sit in bumper to bumper traffic while my commute takes 3 times longer than normal so they can indulge themselves in their escapism. Every time I take my daughter for a walk along the waterfront theres some teenage girls doing a tiktok dance or some influencer with a photographer I have to walk around... sure I could be a dick and just plow through but I try not to fuck with people just trying to be happy.
So I put an aftermarket exhaust on my car so that for just a few minutes a day I can feel like my life isnt just a relentless crushing grind of work, parenthood and sleep. I can pull away from an intersection and for just a second, I can pretend that life is the "fast and the furious" not "monotony and the tedium". Like the people towing a caravan too big for their car up a hill and inconveniencing a bunch of people, I dont want attention I'm just more concerned with my happy than other peoples. But I'm not also a toolbag who floors a painfully loud shitbox around suburbia at 3am, there is a line.
People doing TikToks or pulling their boats arent disrupting conversations in my own home nor scaring my pets. You may be escaping life for a few minutes a day but I, and many others have to live with your noise constantly throughout the day.
Even though you only do it for a few minutes, there are many other people doing the same thing so it's nearly a few times an hour that I have to listen to it
You really had me rooting for you until you turned to the dark side in the second paragraph lol.
Maybe instead of a muffler you could just install a muffler sound simulator on your phone or something and listen to the sounds quietly while you drive?
Ironically enough nobody in the world has been deterred from loud exhausts because of the cost. You literally just cut the muffler off, you can do it for under $10 working from scratch
It must be hard when your accomplishments are so little that no one notices you exist; i might be an obnoxious man child just to get people to notice me too.
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but hey buddy, your mustang/challenger/Corvette is loud
Yeah, it's loud because it's a fucking sportscar, being loud is entirely in character and useful for the driver to hear out gear shifts on a twisty road.
Buddy, if the engine noise inside the cabin and the emphasis on the tachometer isn't enough for you then maybe you should give up on twisty roads and sport cars.
If only there was a dial, or display that showed how much revolutions your engine made in a minute. Oh wait there is, it's called an RPM gauge. You don't need need your loud as fuck sports car to judge when to shift gears, ya idiot. Look at the RPM gauge
Idk it did help to hear wtf the motor was doing when I'm off road trying to modulate the throttle to get up an obstacle.
But... it got old. So I went quieter before I got rid of it. I'm keeping the 4R stock because it'll sound stupid (to me) with louder exhaust.
I don't mind loud exhaust if the motor sounds good and it isn't obnoxiously loud.
V8? Yes. V10? Sure. (Gas or diesel). If it's 4 or 6 cyl with manual trans? Yes.
One thing I can't stand is econoboxes with auto trans and high stall torque converters that are just always loud. It just sounds terrible to me. It doesn't sound like a sports car. It doesn't sound fast or powerful. It sounds like a poseur lol. Sorry I can't help it.