go.illini

I get it. OP wants the deep sound without the popping. Not everyone wants to sound like a Cup car.

I'm on the fence over this myself. My 996 has PSE and it sounds great - deep and no cackling. For my 991.2 order considering going with base exhaust and adding x-pipe.

Could the OP disconnect the PSE valves so it's always closed?

rtremaine

The 13 year old me would have thought the pops and crackles are pretty kick-*** and let's face it that's who I really bought the car for.

If you disconnect the valves I think they're always open right? I think the vacuum lines actually close the valves, or is that only on the S non-pse?

NOSUB2T

I have no idea why you would want to get rid of that. I am seriously depressed that it is getting too cool to put down my top so I can hear it even better. I was just told today how awesome my car sounds. Maybe trade in for a Lexus?

NOSUB2T

LOL!!! my first thought

The Fat Kid

Program out the crackles and pops?!

Churchill

I can't believe you drive a cab, which isn't a real sports car, but you don't see me posting that, do you? Oh wait.

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your feelings about my taste in exhaust sounds. I am grateful we could go on this journey of sharing and discovery together.

Roosell

Well, you might be right. But if something is fake because it has no reason for being other than for effect, my entire ownership experience is fake. The only reason I have my 991 is for the effect it has on my happiness. When I think of something as fake I think of something presented as something it is not. It has nothing to do with its justification for being.

And a small point: backfiring happens in the intake, not the exhaust. My car does not backfire, and I hope yours does not either.

008

I often regret not getting PSE but every now and again I feel the same as you. I think I'll get a side muffler delete instead of retrofitting the PSE first. Given that those of us with the S but without PSE have the same function but not the overrun sound you'd think it would be possible to do what you're looking for.

Churchill

Nicely said, and largely agree.

But backfiring can happen in both intake and exhaust, assuming by "backfiring" we mean gasoline that is burned outside the combustion chamber.

Wharf Rat

I'm spending $3500 to have the pops and crackles added to my car tomorrow.

bright_medal

One small thing to add is that the overrun sound is there even without PSE. I believe it's just more pronounced with the PSE.

I have a 991 S with nonPSR and still hear the overrun

NoGaBiker

Huh? Maybe it's a GTS thing but I drive in Sport+ 100% of the time, and I have massive, deeply flatulant rumbling, popping, burbling on decel after downshifts.

In fact, yesterday I was curious if the sound abated at all when using Sport without the +. So I did a series of decel tests with the button in Sport and also Sport+. I couldn't tell any real difference, but fancied that if there was a diff, it was slightly quieter in Sport.

Of course, in Normal, it all goes away.

StormRune

There are times when I don't want the pops too but want the deeper PSE sound. At those times I'll just enable PSE without Sport or Sport Plus and the pops mostly disappear. That's the only option I'm aware of for you. (And then there are the times my alter-ego kicks in and the pops are a plus!)

My car's behavior is just like NoGaBiker's. Sport and Sport Plus both crackle and pop just fine and if there is a difference in sound it is pretty fine. I do prefer Sport Plus in manual mode though since you get the great combo of crackly exhaust, firmer shifts, the firmed-up dynamic engine mounts, and the PSM relaxes and lets you get a bit more slip and slide before kicking in.

cmorv

I noticed far more popping in Sport mode when lettting off the throttle vs. Sport+ mode in my 911.2, IMO?

Quadcammer

I hate all that fake sportiness crap. Injecting too much fuel for no reason just to make silly noises "because race car" is a perfect description of what porsche has become...a joke.