Gryphon
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Hey guys,
Looking to upgrade my 'Stang's sound once it arrives (I have about a 12 month delivery period to look forward to, I ordered on May 13th and still haven't even received a confirmation or build date, that's Ford Europe for you).
I've decided to go axle-back only primarily for cost, shipping and noise reasons. I can't really afford to ship in a cat-back system from the US and for noise regulation reasons it's important not to delete the resonator, or I'll never pass safety inspection with my car.
I have a somewhat weird preference with sound in a v8 exhaust. It seems most of you like a 'deep', 'throaty' tone in the exhaust of a v8, and while I can appreciate that, especially in something like an AMG Mercedes, I am definitely not of this persuasion.
It might sound like blasphemy, but I prefer the roar of a muscle car to be sharp, metallic and raspy. More like the 'bees in a beercan' sound of a race car and less of the 'Barry White eating double cream' sound of a refined, civilized v8. Think, the diametric opposite of the Magnaflow Comp, sort of. I know, I know, sue me.
Of course with noise regulations being what they are, I need an exhaust which will give me as much of that as I can get, without at the same time making my car non-roadworthy.
I've been listening to some sound samples of axle-backs and the Roush definitely seems to be the most aggressive and high-frequency rich exhaust, with that machine-gun pulse on high revs and that blurby poppy idle like on an old Superbird.
Two questions:
Are the sound clips on the 'Net accurate, and would you say that the Roush axle-back has the most 'treble' out of the axle-backs out there?
Is it too loud? Not subjectively, since I love the sound of straight pipes, but would it pass a California noise test, for instance?
Sincerely,
#99999999999999999999999 on the waiting list, or so it would seem.
Looking to upgrade my 'Stang's sound once it arrives (I have about a 12 month delivery period to look forward to, I ordered on May 13th and still haven't even received a confirmation or build date, that's Ford Europe for you).
I've decided to go axle-back only primarily for cost, shipping and noise reasons. I can't really afford to ship in a cat-back system from the US and for noise regulation reasons it's important not to delete the resonator, or I'll never pass safety inspection with my car.
I have a somewhat weird preference with sound in a v8 exhaust. It seems most of you like a 'deep', 'throaty' tone in the exhaust of a v8, and while I can appreciate that, especially in something like an AMG Mercedes, I am definitely not of this persuasion.
It might sound like blasphemy, but I prefer the roar of a muscle car to be sharp, metallic and raspy. More like the 'bees in a beercan' sound of a race car and less of the 'Barry White eating double cream' sound of a refined, civilized v8. Think, the diametric opposite of the Magnaflow Comp, sort of. I know, I know, sue me.
Of course with noise regulations being what they are, I need an exhaust which will give me as much of that as I can get, without at the same time making my car non-roadworthy.
I've been listening to some sound samples of axle-backs and the Roush definitely seems to be the most aggressive and high-frequency rich exhaust, with that machine-gun pulse on high revs and that blurby poppy idle like on an old Superbird.
Two questions:
Are the sound clips on the 'Net accurate, and would you say that the Roush axle-back has the most 'treble' out of the axle-backs out there?
Is it too loud? Not subjectively, since I love the sound of straight pipes, but would it pass a California noise test, for instance?
Sincerely,
#99999999999999999999999 on the waiting list, or so it would seem.
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