DanDotDan

Head to the shop early, so you don't encounter as much traffic. Maybe 5:00 am will do. If you pass a Prius, make sure to downshift and floor it. Just because.

450knotOffice

Well, I fired it up and drove it to my muffler guy, who quickly took care of the alignment issues between the headers and dual-out muffler. It sounds AWESOME now!

Interestingly, during the open-header drive to the shop, the car quieted down to a (barely) tolerable level once I brought the RPM up to 2000 and above. It really was at its worst at idle.

Imo000

With open headers you can really hear when the engine warms up, and comes out of "cold mode". It quiets down.
And you are right, there is a sweet spot when its quiet. Anything above and bellow is like the World is coming to an end.....but it's fun!

Diablo360

If you run open headers with no cat bypass pipes and no muffler bypass pipes it's CRAZY loud and it feels very "blippy" at under 4k rpm. With that being said you'll be fine driving it for a few miles. With the additional tubing (cat and muffler bypass pipes) it's actually not that bad for daily driving but it's VERY loud on startup and until the engine warms up; after that you can keep it quiet if you go easy on the throttle.

white out

post up video!

This isn't open headers, but my Murci breaks 103db at start up:


Nick

dotframe

That exhaust note makes me tingly in my man bits.