The sport cats seem like the most bang for the buck but what do you recommend as a replacement for PSE? Speed tech has a valved x-pipe. GMG also has an x-pipe with no valves and super straight through design. For big $ the Kline inconel system with 100 or 200 cell cats looks and sounds nice.

I went with Fabspeed headers and sport cats. It’s definitely louder in sport mode and a little louder in standard mode than OEM. The 3.0tt motor has a lower tone than the 3.8 n/a motor.

Hey, if it works, it works. More power to you (genuinely). For me, a good and raw/uncorked flat six is up there with the best of the best. I guess snark aside, I truly do mean that it is nice to love the 911 for all those things AND the way it sounds. It’s a more polarizing sound than a classic “can’t go wrong” V8. But I do like how much more unique it is (V8’s harbor their own distinctions but at the end of the day, many of them can sound pretty alike).

Not very easy at all I’d imagine. Whatever difference in sound the Carrera T may have inside should give some insight (as they apparently stripped some insulation to try and make it louder). Maybe removing your back seats may help a bit. I’d look up YouTube videos of various exhaust setups as well. I can speak of a complete cat bypass (not recommended at all) which did appear to put emphasis on more bass and an orgy of uncorked turbo whistles more than it brought out an actual uncorked motor sound, imo. Maybe take the mufflers off and weld in X and/or straight pipes? But you may run into just a less loud version of what I described with the cat bypass.

Yessir, absolutely. As was mine completely. Sound just happens to be maybe my favorite aspect of driving my car (that and handling), but an environment that has me generally in a zone of 30-70 with maybe 3/4 throttle (no WOT) at most (when I do have room to run it), sound simply becomes the ultimate and most necessary way to get some feel/emotion/visceral/feedback from the car (for me).

I recently drove a Miata RF, and that thing is so engaging (not very visceral, but engaging), you can drive it at 9/10’s without going too fast or being reckless, therefore I didn’t even need that sound feedback. Preferences via all of us having cars that we require to fill (or not fill) a certain desire or necessity is indeed what it’s all about!