Sound increase w/ LT's?
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10
Sound increase w/ LT's?
Currently stock a4 w/ GHL Bullets, no x-pipe. Thinking LT's in spring w/ hi-flo cats. I'm curious as to how much, if any, louder it will get? Car is daily driver w/ 60 mile freeway commutes in nice weather, don't want any headaches from excessive noise. What has everyones experience been w/ adding LT's with regard to sound on 'conservative' (no straight pipes, using hi-flo cats) cat-back exhausts?
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Hi Jason
Jason,
How is it going? You e-mailed me pics of your Supermaxx/Magnaflow install last week. I've just bought the Header pack and the MF's are on backorder. Thanks for the info and pics. Will proviude pics of the install as well.
Ed
How is it going? You e-mailed me pics of your Supermaxx/Magnaflow install last week. I've just bought the Header pack and the MF's are on backorder. Thanks for the info and pics. Will proviude pics of the install as well.
Ed
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Originally Posted by Patches
The thing I try to stress about the addition of headers beyond the power increase is that the quality of the tone is significantly improved. The exhaust note is "crisper" IMO. The added power is a bonus!
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Originally Posted by Patches
The thing I try to stress about the addition of headers beyond the power increase is that the quality of the tone is significantly improved. The exhaust note is "crisper" IMO.And smoother, especially when coupled to an X-pipe. I had my Z06 Titanium exhaust installed a couple of months before getting my Kooks LT headers and really didn't see too much of an improvement with just the Ti's. The headers made a huge difference in the way the Ti's sound. The tone is crisper, there's no motor boat sound and when you accelerate hard, you can really hear those babies sing even though under normal cruising, the sound hasn't increased much from how it was before, just the tone is different.
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Le Mans Master
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Originally Posted by alex1217
And smoother, especially when coupled to an X-pipe. I had my Z06 Titanium exhaust installed a couple of months before getting my Kooks LT headers and really didn't see too much of an improvement with just the Ti's. The headers made a huge difference in the way the Ti's sound. The tone is crisper, there's no motor boat sound and when you accelerate hard, you can really hear those babies sing even though under normal cruising, the sound hasn't increased much from how it was before, just the tone is different.
Happy New Year. Hope your Holidays were good. Just getting ready to enter the Mod pool as well head first. Hope it turns out as well as everyone else. Will end it with a Dyno tune by Vettedoctors. Say hello to Jessica from Karin and myself and stay i touch. Need a Vette run soon.
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Originally Posted by mowton
Alex,
Happy New Year. Hope your Holidays were good. Just getting ready to enter the Mod pool as well head first. Hope it turns out as well as everyone else. Will end it with a Dyno tune by Vettedoctors. Say hello to Jessica from Karin and myself and stay i touch. Need a Vette run soon.
Ed
Happy New Year. Hope your Holidays were good. Just getting ready to enter the Mod pool as well head first. Hope it turns out as well as everyone else. Will end it with a Dyno tune by Vettedoctors. Say hello to Jessica from Karin and myself and stay i touch. Need a Vette run soon.
Ed
Hopefully, by the time the spring weather arrives and the next corvette event rolls around, I can check out your new mods. 