Originally posted by warmonger:
Originally posted by TourDeForce:
With the gutted pre-cats I do not notice any gains vs my car when I bought it, just a slight extra drone from the exhaust. I also do not have headers, and the car is quiet as stock with the Dynomax Super Turbo muffler at the rear & a straight through resonator in the mid section.



Originally posted by TourDeForce:
That's what I said...



Last I heard, Drone was a type of noise.
Therefore, saying " gutted precats aren't noisy" and " I
have just a slight extra drone..." Doesn't seem to go together to me.
Also, to further empahsize my point as to why I WANTED to clarify that:
I deem "noisy" things to be items that are audible, but NOT pleasureable to listen to.
e.g. a rumbling v8 exhaust sounds good, a farty-sounding honda with drone and rasp sounds "NOISY" even when the v8 might technically be louder.

THEREFORE: Drone is not desired, does not sound good and is therefore "Noisy" to me and probably most people.

Since this is such a subjective topic, I felt that your statements were in direct contradiction to each other.....and felt the need to 'add to it'.

I haven't heard one SVT with gutted precats increasing in drone as long as a resonator is retained. They sound a bit more rumbly, not really louder but just a tone change to the exhaust, and they sound pretty good overall I must say.



Right. I was thinking he meant volume, when he may have actually meant "noise" by your definition - which, strictly speaking, I consider correct.

As a parent of two, noise has evolved to mean something (noise or not) of significant enough volume so as to alter my mood - or at least irritate my typically placid demeaner.

Your clarification was a valid & justified point. Thank you.

Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.