Does anyone else feel like their car gets more quiet in summer months/certain drives?
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Does anyone else feel like their car gets more quiet in summer months/certain drives?
When my car was bone stock, it was TOO quiet. I swapped with Mike's H pipe and deleted the resonator. For about two weeks, car was mean and nasty.
Maybe it's in my head or the sound deadening in these cars is just extremely well done, but I noticed the last two times that the car seems a bit more tame on accelerations than before.
Would the 85+ summer days have anything to do with this? Anything else that could cause the car to seem "quieter"? I thought it was in my head, but it definitely feels significantly more quiet.
Startups are still awesome, but once warmed up in this heat, car seems substantially more quiet - don't get me wrong, still loud, but not like before.
(PS: This is not an attempt for me to justify getting long tubes...yet honest
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Maybe it's in my head or the sound deadening in these cars is just extremely well done, but I noticed the last two times that the car seems a bit more tame on accelerations than before.
Would the 85+ summer days have anything to do with this? Anything else that could cause the car to seem "quieter"? I thought it was in my head, but it definitely feels significantly more quiet.
Startups are still awesome, but once warmed up in this heat, car seems substantially more quiet - don't get me wrong, still loud, but not like before.
(PS: This is not an attempt for me to justify getting long tubes...yet honest
)
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Nah I've thought that about all my cars. I just figured it was the seals all expanding more in the heat and sealing things off more. Plus I figured the rubber on the tires was harder in the winter and made more noise. I have no data to confirm this though. It would be interesting to measure sound levels during different times of the year
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It's disgusting. Each time I start the car in the morning this summer it sounded like the car had been driven for hours before. When I lived in colder whether, the cold start was absolutely amazing.
The car sounds like a regular C class right now....
The car sounds like a regular C class right now....
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A part of me likes the car loud just for me and cold starts, and a part likes the car being so tolerable around small downtowns that are fun through walk through or going out to dinner in it and not having this ***** "look at me everyone" presence...
That's why I have been hesitant to get headers. The car is just all around perfect...
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Without headers I used to have SUCH a wicked cold start in Chicago winters it was magnificent! Waking up neighbors, my girlfriend sleeping upstairs....lol
A part of me likes the car loud just for me and cold starts, and a part likes the car being so tolerable around small downtowns that are fun through walk through or going out to dinner in it and not having this ***** "look at me everyone" presence...
That's why I have been hesitant to get headers. The car is just all around perfect...
A part of me likes the car loud just for me and cold starts, and a part likes the car being so tolerable around small downtowns that are fun through walk through or going out to dinner in it and not having this ***** "look at me everyone" presence...
That's why I have been hesitant to get headers. The car is just all around perfect...
If I add headers with the current setup, I can forget starting any time before 9 a.m., weekdays nor weekends!
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in the summer i feel as though all my cars with exhausts become quieter...maybe has to do with temperature and steel expansion? who knows...a question for the heavens maybe.
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Pretty much every car is going to be loud on a super cold start and this has to due with warming the cats up. I couldn't find a perfect answer, but here's an ok one that sounds reasonable:
"The ignition timing is retarded for a short time after startup. This is done to get the cats up to temp much sooner as the OEM's must have the car in closed loop and running clean in a specified amount of time to meet emissions standards."
As for the exhaust being quieter on hot days, I think it has to do with the expansion of the exhaust and for start ups the cats are already hot.
"The ignition timing is retarded for a short time after startup. This is done to get the cats up to temp much sooner as the OEM's must have the car in closed loop and running clean in a specified amount of time to meet emissions standards."
As for the exhaust being quieter on hot days, I think it has to do with the expansion of the exhaust and for start ups the cats are already hot.
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You're joking right? I have ARH LTHs and a catless x-pipe. My car has literally knocked a picture off the wall in my house on cold start. Headers make the car LOUD. Like nascar loud. Unless you have an Akrapovic exhaust, don't believe for one second your car will be remotely quiet. Don't get me wrong. I love it. But it's definitely loud. At the same time I understand it's not for everyone and is not necessarily socially acceptable, especially with my neighbors and all their newborns.
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You're joking right? I have ARH LTHs and a catless x-pipe. My car has literally knocked a picture off the wall in my house on cold start. Headers make the car LOUD. Like nascar loud. Unless you have an Akrapovic exhaust, don't believe for one second your car will be remotely quiet. Don't get me wrong. I love it. But it's definitely loud. At the same time I understand it's not for everyone and is not necessarily socially acceptable, especially with my neighbors and all their newborns.
A lot of it is the heat/humidity, but some of the "quietness" is due to our ears getting used to the sound.
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You're joking right? I have ARH LTHs and a catless x-pipe. My car has literally knocked a picture off the wall in my house on cold start. Headers make the car LOUD. Like nascar loud. Unless you have an Akrapovic exhaust, don't believe for one second your car will be remotely quiet. Don't get me wrong. I love it. But it's definitely loud. At the same time I understand it's not for everyone and is not necessarily socially acceptable, especially with my neighbors and all their newborns.
that being said i absolute love the sound of the car with headers and wouldnt have it any other way!!
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I would definitely agree with becoming acclimated to the sound. The first 2 weeks I was so sad. My gas mileage went up 3 mpg. I tried to stay off the gas. It was just so loud for me. I just felt like "that guy" any time I touched the throttle. I thought I ruined the car. 2 months later, I am back to myself and driving harder than ever. I love the theater of the headers now. I just wish there was a little less rasp between 2,500-3,000 rpm.
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Thanks, guys. At least now I verified I'm not going crazy.
Also, I was referring to driving around as well, not just the starts. Driving around, definitely seems quieter on these hot, baking days of 95+. I can't wait for the fall and the below 60 days and especially the winter months (with no snow).
Also, I was referring to driving around as well, not just the starts. Driving around, definitely seems quieter on these hot, baking days of 95+. I can't wait for the fall and the below 60 days and especially the winter months (with no snow).
