For those with headers...
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2014 E63S, 2018 GLC 300
For those with headers...
How do they change the characteristic of the exhaust sound?
My main concern is drone and increased noise in the cabin. Do headers (with an otherwise stock exhaust) increase drone or noise?
My main concern is drone and increased noise in the cabin. Do headers (with an otherwise stock exhaust) increase drone or noise?
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2003 E55 AMG
I have ARH Longtube Headers with X-pipe (no cats), stock resonator, stock mufflers. No drone. Nice,quiet and civilized when driven normally. Once you step on it.......hmmmmm 
the monster inside starts to roar! 
the monster inside starts to roar!
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2004 W211 E55 AMG >>gone but not forgotten > W123 280E > W124 E280 > W126 380SE
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I have the same exact exhaust setup as Violilo on my CLS55. It's amazingly quiet inside the car, but at WOT it sounds like the space shuttle launching! I highly recommend it.
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Same here (ARH long tube). However, be are of "header tick"...makes you think you have an exhaust leak, but the thinner walled steel makes you hear more of the engine noise.
However, all sins are forgiven when you stand on it....transforms from mild to EVIL in short order!
However, all sins are forgiven when you stand on it....transforms from mild to EVIL in short order!
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2003 E55 AMG
Same here (ARH long tube). However, be are of "header tick"...makes you think you have an exhaust leak, but the thinner walled steel makes you hear more of the engine noise.
However, all sins are forgiven when you stand on it....transforms from mild to EVIL in short order!
However, all sins are forgiven when you stand on it....transforms from mild to EVIL in short order!
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I have MBH, secondary cats, stock resonator and stock rear mufflers. The supercharger by far is louder than the exhaust.
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Kleeman headers, no cats no resi and factory mufflers....slight drone around 1200 rpm but other then then that is has a nice beefy sounds to, the way it should have sounded from the factory. It's sound like a BEAST when you get on it!
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The cats tame it down a bit...I like the high-flow ones on mine. Keeps the sleeper factor going a bit more and only costs a few ponies. Unsuspecting victims usually don't pay much mind until I wail on it and start disappearing.
