Aural (Your Ears) Candy
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Aural (Your Ears) Candy
My new Fabspeed X pipe, 200 cell cat combo seemed to give the car a little bit more power. The true test will be at Willow at the end of April. Bu then I will have my new plug wires on and new Hoosiers...with a set of new NT-01s as practice tires.
The sound on the new exhaust, let me babble on again. It is like no other exhaust combo I have had on the car. I have had in the past nearly every muffler system you can think of:
The ironic thing, the Porsche 993 with stock mufflers sounds nearly anemic, with X pipes/200 cell cats and FD Motorsports Stage 1 mufflers, what an incredible sound is there for the asking. In a way the idle sound is like a pushrod Mustang 302 or a Chevy 350 with a good cam. The crack and pop on heel and toe down shifts...for a moment I though I was driving a Cup Car.
One other thing, Fabspeed manages to ship FedEx very inexpensively. Their customer service is awesome. No affiliation, just love their products. What I have now is the best of all possible worlds.
The sound on the new exhaust, let me babble on again. It is like no other exhaust combo I have had on the car. I have had in the past nearly every muffler system you can think of:
- B&B Muffllers
- Robin Sun's RSR mufflers
- Porsche Motorsound option mufflers
- Fabspeed Cat bypass to RSR mufflers
- FD Motorsport Stage III Mufflers
- Fabspeed SuperCup mufflers and the stock cat
- Fabspeed X pipes/200 cell cats into FD Motorsport Stage mufflers
The ironic thing, the Porsche 993 with stock mufflers sounds nearly anemic, with X pipes/200 cell cats and FD Motorsports Stage 1 mufflers, what an incredible sound is there for the asking. In a way the idle sound is like a pushrod Mustang 302 or a Chevy 350 with a good cam. The crack and pop on heel and toe down shifts...for a moment I though I was driving a Cup Car.
One other thing, Fabspeed manages to ship FedEx very inexpensively. Their customer service is awesome. No affiliation, just love their products. What I have now is the best of all possible worlds.
Last edited by Martin S.; Mar 6, 2011 at 09:03 PM. Reason: correction
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I was hoping before I drove the car that it would be a little quieter...after hearing it, driving the car, I welcome the sound. If it is too loud at Laguna Seca, I'll try adding "Fangs" a la Super Cups. If that doesn't work, I'll reinstall the stock cats just for this one event...that's how much I love the new sound...intoxicating!
Now it is time for a drink!!!
