Please think twice about selling stock exhaust
03-13-2004, 04:43 PM
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This car has one of the weakest exhaust notes of any sportscar I've ever owned. 80% of
post-VTEC note is a result of the engine, certainly not from those two underbody monstrosities that look like the boilers off the Titanic.
My exhaust came off right after I dremeled away the baffles of the intake lunch box. Sportscars should SOUND like sportscars, at idle, the S2000's OEM exhaust sounds like an Accord. I suppose it's acceptable if you want to remain stealth while tooling around enjoying the scenery but I like a little lead with my pencil.
For all the people changing out their exhausts, finding one for $50 if you want to
go back to stock remains easy to do.
If you drive a sportscar and while idling at a stoplight, can hear the ants walking
across the pavement, that's just too much Lexus SC430 for my taste.
Just a dissenting old fart's opinion.
post-VTEC note is a result of the engine, certainly not from those two underbody monstrosities that look like the boilers off the Titanic.
My exhaust came off right after I dremeled away the baffles of the intake lunch box. Sportscars should SOUND like sportscars, at idle, the S2000's OEM exhaust sounds like an Accord. I suppose it's acceptable if you want to remain stealth while tooling around enjoying the scenery but I like a little lead with my pencil.
For all the people changing out their exhausts, finding one for $50 if you want to
go back to stock remains easy to do.
If you drive a sportscar and while idling at a stoplight, can hear the ants walking
across the pavement, that's just too much Lexus SC430 for my taste.
Just a dissenting old fart's opinion.
03-14-2004, 01:58 AM
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Modifying the exhaust system to make it sound like a fart, V8, F1, or whatever is fine, as long as it does not sound so loud as to piss off ordinary drivers on the road. Once I had a group of Harley riders pass me at WOT while I was cruising top down, and because their modified exhaust was so LOUD, my hearing was lost for a few minutes. For extreme cases like this one, I can imagine some other driver getting really pissed off and react by running the bikes off the road. In this scenario, loud pipe would not save their lives. Like many things in life, it's a matter of degree. Give some consideration on how most driver will react to the loudness of your new exhaust. What you consider just barely loud can be painfully loud to other drivers sharing the road with you.
03-14-2004, 06:11 AM
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I haven't really heard any obnoxiously loud S2000 exhaust systems, certainly not at idle
or normal cruising. Those can usually be found from pieced-together canisters on Civics
and other econoboxes where the system is anything BUT tuned correctly. I too, find
some of the Harley exhausts excruciatingly (word-?) loud....I don't know how the riders
can stand it. On a scale of 1-10, I think the stock exhaust is a 4 while most aftermarket
systems run between 7-8. The singles, 8-9. My Supertrapp sounds a bit more aggressive
at idle but really only shows its teeth after VTEC though like most, does drone in say, 3rd
gear from 3-4K.
I'm going with a Veilside Single full Titanium very soon and I suppose that's all going to change
since many think this is one of the loudest systems available. We'll see.
or normal cruising. Those can usually be found from pieced-together canisters on Civics
and other econoboxes where the system is anything BUT tuned correctly. I too, find
some of the Harley exhausts excruciatingly (word-?) loud....I don't know how the riders
can stand it. On a scale of 1-10, I think the stock exhaust is a 4 while most aftermarket
systems run between 7-8. The singles, 8-9. My Supertrapp sounds a bit more aggressive
at idle but really only shows its teeth after VTEC though like most, does drone in say, 3rd
gear from 3-4K.
I'm going with a Veilside Single full Titanium very soon and I suppose that's all going to change
since many think this is one of the loudest systems available. We'll see.
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