Originally Posted by joefish1298

Cruising flat highway, there's no drone, a nice deep burble, exactly how I imagined it and wanted it. It's when you get on the gas, even a little it's loud, when you get on the gas more than a little, it's insane. I've been in plenty of modded cars at track days and this is easily the loudest car I've been in save for a couple of fully stripped caged race cars with basically straight through exhausts.

Originally Posted by joefish1298

Well I took it for a long drive to gather my thoughts and I'm giving serious thought to the fact that it was manufactured without sound deadening in the canister. It's not just loud, it's impossibly loud.

The shop said it was the loudest S2000 exhaust they'd ever fitted, and one of the loudest they'd ever had in the shop. The tuner couldn't tune without earmuffs, which he often does on cars with aftermarket exhausts.

The manager had to stop having conversations with a customer when it was doing dyno pulls, even though the office is separated from the workshop by cinder block walls and cars on the dyno have the exhaust facing away from the office to directly outside through a large opening.

Through the hills the volume of the echo was just excruciatingly loud. It's so much louder than any car I've ever been in, many of which have had aftermarket exhausts.

Originally Posted by s2000maniac

you gotta let it break in. its gonna quite down after 300-500 miles

Originally Posted by AusS2000

Either that or your hearing degrades.

I have a V3 with the mid muffler replaced with a large Lukey unit. Very nice improvement in sound.