How to make W211 E63 sound like C63 or W212 E63
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My guess is that the resonator is doing its job and killing the sound.
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W211 E63 with secondary cats removed, x/h/straight pipes installed, and rear resonator delete should be loud enough or way to loud for most. If you want louder than that you seriously need to install C63 mufflers or run ZERO mufflers. At that point good luck to your ears.
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2008 W211 E63
My E63 with a resonator delete is loud enough on cold start up to **** off my neighbors. Luckily the ones I talk to don't care and like my car. I also don't DD it and it's usually in the afternoons when it gets started up. I'd feel like an ******* if I fired it up at 6:30am every day so I could take it to work.
A guy in my office has the stock w212 and mine sounds better when we rev it in the underground parking garage.
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Huh. I wonder if the resonator is the mitigating factor. I wouldn't think so, but...
Mine does bark on start up, but I just don't have that problem, well, me and my neighbors don't. It is also not my daily, but I do fire it up in the a.m. for the cooler drive in the Texas summers. Although the old lady next door calls the E my hot rod, she doesn't complain about it. And if she was even remotely bothered, she would. I live on a quiet cul-de-sac, and not all my neighbors are my friends, so I don't think they are just tolerating it.
I guess each has their own take on it, and suppose one's definition of loud is a product of opinion, environment and what we may be, or get, used to. I just can't imagine why our experiences should run so counter.
Mine does bark on start up, but I just don't have that problem, well, me and my neighbors don't. It is also not my daily, but I do fire it up in the a.m. for the cooler drive in the Texas summers. Although the old lady next door calls the E my hot rod, she doesn't complain about it. And if she was even remotely bothered, she would. I live on a quiet cul-de-sac, and not all my neighbors are my friends, so I don't think they are just tolerating it.
I guess each has their own take on it, and suppose one's definition of loud is a product of opinion, environment and what we may be, or get, used to. I just can't imagine why our experiences should run so counter.
Do you have a clip of driving and what it sounds like because I'm curious.
I just love the stock tone too much. I feel like it's perfect. I had a few straight piped cars in the past and honestly I can't do it anymore, I just can't stand it unless it was an exotic sound like a V12 or V10.
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Kind of makes sense. Maybe because I've heard C63s with LTHs, no primary or secondary cats and X pipes along with the megaphone C63 mufflers.
Do you have a clip of driving and what it sounds like because I'm curious.
I just love the stock tone too much. I feel like it's perfect. I had a few straight piped cars in the past and honestly I can't do it anymore, I just can't stand it unless it was an exotic sound like a V12 or V10.
Do you have a clip of driving and what it sounds like because I'm curious.
I just love the stock tone too much. I feel like it's perfect. I had a few straight piped cars in the past and honestly I can't do it anymore, I just can't stand it unless it was an exotic sound like a V12 or V10.
It has certainly been widely discussed about the C63's mufflers really being megaphones. Some E owners switch to C muffs because they feel E sounds too tame. I'm 52 and I can tell you without a doubt that a C63 with LTH's, no cats, no res with x-pipe would absolutely NOT be my cup of tea. When I had the LTH's put on my car, I had the resonator removed. Then I had it put back. This, of course, is personal preference and my own experience, but without the res, I thought it introduced a bit of raspiness and enhanced the volume to the point that I thought the car lost a bit of its classiness. So, I have secondary cats, left the resonator in and kept the stock e muffs.
Again, this is just my experience. Other's MMV. I doubt I could personally own a C with LTH's, X-pipe and no cats with the stock C megaphones. I've heard them too and just don't feel it's what I am wanting to project as a middle aged guy.
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