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Bass Crazy · 04-03-2002, 08:20

Hey guys, Im just wondering what you would perfer?

- Nice/mean sounding engine
or
- Quieter engine with more power and torque (An easily noticable amount)

Both 6 cyl.

04-03-2002, 08:41

Definitely more grunt. I mean you can have a mean ass sounding engine which could provoke drags and what not but you still get whipped. More grunt is always better.

I was going to post a new topic but I'll do it here. Is it possible to do your exhaust up for performance, but without the noise? Because I absolutely love the quietness of the LTD, and to have all this bloody exhaust noise would spoil it, especially out on the highway. Which reminds me, I have to plug up that bloody great big hole on my muffler...

Alex

Troutman · 04-03-2002, 10:51

The Goodz, yet again I'm going by passing comments people have made in the past. Apparently the high end exhaust systems can make little or no additional noise. If I could find an exhaust that was actually quieter than the standard one with no loss of power, I'd start saving today.

jamesk · 04-03-2002, 11:22

yep its possible, most of the higher performance cars have a quieter exhust, people with the noisy exhusts have just done it because they like the noise or because its cheaper.

Troutman · 04-03-2002, 11:27

...for me, though, the burning question is not how the noise compares to a loud exhaust system, but to the factory set-up.

DansEdgli · 04-03-2002, 12:27

my girlfriends old ED which is now sadly written off was an ex cop.
The exhaust was quiet as until the revs got above 3000 then it screamed. it was awesome i loved the sound of the car opening up while i could hear the whimpering of my mate in his VL calais as i casually went on by.
now i have an ED exactly the same except not ex cop and bloody bog standard :(
Should i offer her dad a small amount of money to take it off his hands and steal the good bits to make mine go just as hard?
What is ur opinion?

Troutman · 04-03-2002, 12:30

Depends if the good bits are salvegable, and if you could get a good price on it. It'd be fascinating to know exactly what mods had been performed on the car, though...

RAPTOR · 04-03-2002, 13:32

Quiet is good! S L E E P E R

Kenaz · 04-03-2002, 14:06

I'll take a nice quiet sounding engine any day. Which is why I wanted a VL or Skyline so much. I still love the sound of say a WRX or Silvia with a 3 inch exhaust. But for every day driving I could not handle a turbo car with a big exhaust or a V8 with exhaust for that matter.

Raptor also makes a good point, sleepers are great :)

Ash

NAPARM · 04-03-2002, 16:26

power, power and more power!