storii

Thank you. I very much look forward to that video.

9Gyarah

I may be the exception here but I got the pops and bangs deleted when I got tune. Never really cared for the forced overrun with In burnt fuel. Gets old quickly.

michaelscain

interesting....I'm not sure why you would need to remove it. if you have the Sport Plus button and PSE fitted. You just press the button to remove the pops and bangs.

Tobe honest for a long drive after a while it does become abit annoying, but on a short B road blast, when your in the mood for it, you cannot help but smile.

9Gyarah

I have the GTS. There is no way to remove it. It’s prevalent in sport, sport plus and somewhat muted in normal mode but still there especially on aggressive downshifts regardless of mode. I made up my mind when following my own car driving a buddy’s GT3. Hearing it from the outside it was absolutely obnoxious.

michaelscain

Ok, that's strange you cannot turn it all off. I can switch all the bangs and pops off. Maybe its setup different on the GTS to the S.

I have the following mods/options; 6 Speed manual, PSE sports exhaust, FVD sport headers, FVD ECU tune, BMC Sport Filters, PASM, PCM Sat Nav, Blue Tooth, 20 gig hard drive, BOSE, Sports Chrono pack, Cruise Control, Heated Seats, Sports Design Wheel, Sports Plus Seats, Porsche Logos on head rests and GTS rear lights.

storii

My car is similarly set up to yours sans FVD sport headers, FVD ECU tune, BMC Sport Filters, PCM Sat Nav, Blue Tooth, 20 gig hard drive, BOSE and Sports Chrono. More reason to look forward to your before/after videos.

michaelscain

Ok, Here you go

*Please note: The car was taken for a 30 mile drive before each video.

9Gyarah

Honestly not digging the raspy tin can’ish sound that’s creeped in with the headers. More apparent when valves are closed.

storii

Thank you for sharing. It is hard to determine whether the headers increased the absolute volume of the exhaust sound from the videos. Judging from the volume of your voice, it seems to me that, in the before video, the microphone might have been closer to the car and/or directed straighter to the exhaust pipes than in the after video. This might have contributed to make it sound like the exhaust sound level was higher (as in louder) before the headers. The headers definitely changed the tone of the exhaust sound, though. I think the higher frequency gets more pronounced with the sport headers and make the car scream/wale harder like a race car under hard acceleration which I like very much.

michaelscain

No worries, Yes i can confirm that the sport headers are much louder than the stock headers at high rpm.

The sound quality and tone of the FVD Sport Headers are much better in real life than the poor quality videos i've uploaded to youtube.

When you record sound using your iphone and then upload videos to youtube sound quality is always lost.

For Example if you uploaded the best Ferrari V12 engine sound in the world to youtube using your phone, it would never sound anything as good as actually standing next to the engine.

And this is true for the sports headers, i must admit, the header sound better when bouncing off walls, for example when you here the car going thru a tunnel at full rpm, it sounds absolutely bloody amazing! Also for this reason I could never own a 718 turbo 4 cylinder engine.

Finally we are lucky we can enjoy these magical flat 6 engines before electric vehicles take over the world.

Enjoy and good luck deciding on the headers.

storii

Thank you for confirming the louder sound that sport headers can make in real life. I can fully understand that the sound of YouTube video just doesn't do justice.
I can't agree more!

I have another question for you. According to your post in a different thread about a year ago, it appears that you had gone for the FVD tune before you added the FVD sport header at this time. Did the tune alone make any difference in the exhaust sound at all? I'm wondering if an aggressive tune alone would make a car a bit louder.

PorscheAddict

Tune won't change engine sound in any detectable manner. Headers do in a very positive way though

michaelscain

Hi Storii,

yes I had the FVD tune a year ago and that made a night and day difference to the power going from 315 to (Claimed) 352 hp. But the sound did not really change very much from stock. Although rpm limiter was raised on the car to 7900 rpm.

FVD sent me second tune file for FREE when i ordered the Sports Headers.

After installing the Sports Headers I updated the ECU using the second FVD tune file. This provided me with another (Claimed) 16hp .
But the Sports Headers make the difference to the sound of the engine.

When you buy the FVD ECU tune, they also provide FREE tune files for every additional modification going forward. So if you add for example the IPD plenum and GT3 TB or Sports Muffles in 6 months time, they will send you a free updated ECU tune file to install which makes use of the new modification.

Of course you also keep all your original tunes files on the FVD MyGenius device so you can go back to stock tune if required.

storii

Thanks again! If I ever do a tune, I've already decided it will be FVD. I think the fact they write programs for factory cars separates them from all the rest.

edmaverik

Same here! I am about to pull the trigger to purchase the FVD flash.