• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    The problem is that loud pipes are CHEAP.

    Literally straight-piping your car is one of the cheapest mods.

    You actually have to pay more money if you want more performance and for it to be (relatively) quiet. That’s one of the reasons loud vehicles are so common because and best solution for more performance is also the cheapest.

    (It is more complicated than that, but this isn’t the car community to where the nuances matter)

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      3 years ago

      The funny thing is the loudest exhaust possible is probably the cheapest as it’s basically just a pipe with no features

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        3 years ago

        That’s kinda what threw me off cause straight pipes are cheap and probably the loudest an exhaust you can get it just sounds like shit hence why most cars guys get simply weaker mufflers so basically if you just want a car to be loud straight pipes are the go to but if the car guy wants his car to sound good they get the expensive weak muffler otherwise they have to tune the engine for the sound it’s self to sound good on a straight pipe sacrificing performance ironically from what I’ve been told the fastest cars on the road are actually silent only making noise when they get up to speed spuling up the turbos and making a loud booming backfire when downshifting

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          3 years ago

          TL;DR:

          • Straight pipes are the cheapest and loudest option.
          • Weak mufflers are expensive and less loud, but sound better. Car enthusiasts like these.
          • In their experience, the fastest cars on the road are silent and only make noise at speed and when backfiring while downshifting.
          • OP thinks “spooling” is spelled “spuling”.
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    3 years ago

    Meanwhile I’m getting pulled over multiple times for my loud exhaust because my muffler fell off and I don’t have the money to fix it.

    Then the cop pulling me over has to stop talking as a motorcycle drives by so loud he can’t even hear himself.

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      3 years ago

      That’s because the law wasn’t made because rich assholes, but because broken exhausts, wether by design or by negligence, are a god damn nuisance.

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        3 years ago

        And yet the people who’s cars are loud by design are largely ignored because fuck the poor.

        “Hey I see your muffler is broken”

        “Yeah I don’t have the money to fix it”

        “Well now you’ll have even less money, here’s your $150 ticket”

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        3 years ago

        Yes you’re right fuck poor people how dare they have bills to pay.

        Oh and btw my muffler only broke because I was delivering pizzas on shitty side streets. So maybe the problem is cities should maybe fix their roads?