Speaking of obnoxious, is anyone up to speed on what exhaust systems owners of late-model GM cars (LS types) are putting on their cars? Seems every time I see a cammed LS GTO, Vette, G8, or whatever it has the same obnoxiously loud exhaust that sounds like someone snorting really loud in an attempt to dislodge a recalcitrant booger. No offense, @Davedacarpainter.
Edit: e.g.: (literally the first YouTube result for "cammed G8")
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMyy0tcxyA
Edit: e.g.: (literally the first YouTube result for "cammed G8")
Yup. Went to super turbos last summer, still too loud, need to add a catted mid pipe now. I'm too old for that s**t.
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True, but even at idle it's too raspy for my taste. I prefer a more deep bassie tone.
Most of the V8 S550 Mustangs around here sound like that, too. Nasty sounding and loud as hell.
Except no one here was saying “5.0 with Flowmasters: good, loud LS: bad.”
Mine was more of a comment on how there is always a new generation that is apt to blow out everyone else’s eardrums on the road whilst believing everyone covering their ears is secretly envious of how “nasty” their car sounds.
I remember when I was a teenager, I had a 70’s Ford truck with rebuilt, over cammed, monster Carbed FE, with the most expensive set of long tubes (Doug Thorley) I’ve ever owned- I backed em with a set of Purple Hornie header mufflers
Loud was an understatement lol
Loud was an understatement lol
Back in the late 80s I ran set of old school Cherry Bombs on a 72 Chevelle with a fairly healthy 350.
Thought it was cool then ( neighbors didn't ) now I'm trying to quiet things down.
Whatever,..the take away for the blue blood bleeders is just that.
” My Mustang sounds killer with flows, that LS thing sounds terrible”
“This is my interpretation, therefore, it’s everyone’s interpretation.”
Okay.
All in all, it's all a matter of opinion anyway. What sounds good to one person sounds like ass to another, same as most anything else.
That G8 wouldn't sound all that bad if it were at a drag strip or something as it sounds like it has no exhaust at all. But it's in someone's driveway in a residential neighborhood, it sounds like an old dump truck that the muffler rusted off and they're waiting on a load. I can't fathom why people think that street cars and trucks sound "good" with absolutely no exhaust to speak of.
Same with Harleys if we wanna go down that road. The whole "loud pipes saves lives" thing that gets spouted a lot is basically just them trying to justify having something loud and obnoxious. I used to hate hearing them all the time when I lived in the middle of Amish country Iowa, and now that I'm in Atlanta and don't hear them that much I don't miss them. Same goes for all of the small town country boys who straight pipe their trucks.
And while we're at it, I'm also not a fan of the new 5.0 whose owners think that they need to go all country and basically remove any kind of sound deadening device on them as well. Some sound isn't bad, but there is a point. Like I said, my Cobra is too loud in my opinion, luckily I don't drive that too often. But one of my goals is to figure a way to keep the sound and lose the volume.
That G8 wouldn't sound all that bad if it were at a drag strip or something as it sounds like it has no exhaust at all. But it's in someone's driveway in a residential neighborhood, it sounds like an old dump truck that the muffler rusted off and they're waiting on a load. I can't fathom why people think that street cars and trucks sound "good" with absolutely no exhaust to speak of.
Same with Harleys if we wanna go down that road. The whole "loud pipes saves lives" thing that gets spouted a lot is basically just them trying to justify having something loud and obnoxious. I used to hate hearing them all the time when I lived in the middle of Amish country Iowa, and now that I'm in Atlanta and don't hear them that much I don't miss them. Same goes for all of the small town country boys who straight pipe their trucks.
And while we're at it, I'm also not a fan of the new 5.0 whose owners think that they need to go all country and basically remove any kind of sound deadening device on them as well. Some sound isn't bad, but there is a point. Like I said, my Cobra is too loud in my opinion, luckily I don't drive that too often. But one of my goals is to figure a way to keep the sound and lose the volume.