loweart wrote:Hey Smythie,
I realise it difficult to "quantify" but how LOUD is "a good deal louder inside" ?
I have a 3.0R auto and as you can imagine during normal suburban driving she's mainly going to be between 1500 - 2000 rpm when travelling at between 50 to 60 kph. I know it's hard to describe, but would like to know if at all possible if it's going to be too loud for what I want. I have listened to the sound clips and think the note ( growl ) is what I want but bit hard to tell how LOUD it would be under normal driving by listening to the video footage that I turned Up on my computer.
I must be getting too old or been so spoilt by the 3.0R as I had a pair of Supercat mufflers in my previous 2.5i that I somehow "liked".....
Cheers,
Lok
Defining someone else's "too loud" is sorta out of my league I'm sorry.
As for "good deal louder", the cabin is basically silent normally. With these mufflers, there is no doubt whatsoever that you have done something to the car - I guess maybe 2 or 3 times as loud as wot at high revs with the resonator removed, but instead of coming from the bonnet, it's coming from the back seats
Some more points:
- Inside the cabin and up to about 4000rpm they can be quite deep and that long wavelength sound makes its way into the cabin. You don't need much throttle opening either.
- the sound was egging me on and I wasn't driving quite as normally as I would have liked - holding shorter gears longer than usual and using more throttle
- no louder than HiTechs or K2 Gear
We really should have taken a clip from inside the car
Hope that is some sort of help for you