ive never heard of or experienced the issue you are having.

Hi! After month of track days and modifying the exhaust, I´ve managed to keep the Fabspeed Sport Headers and made the car perform better than with OEM setup. I strongly recommend to go all the way with Fabspeed parts and do not mix and match, as this could be a painfull, long and I´m sure that the car still can perform better with all the setup from Fabspeed, alongside with the Carbon intake, the Sport Cup exhaust and the ECU tunning. Atlhough I have only installed the sport headers and made a custom exhaust from that part on, the sound is impressive, I get compliments everywhere I go and the car performs a lot better at the track. Once it passes 4000 rpm, the car screams and accelerate much faster to the redline. I´m willing to complete the setup and install all the Fasbpeed setup so I can keep improving the car. So far I´ve installed only Fabspeed Sport Headers, so I feel the car has a lot more to give. On the sound point, it´s epic. I´ve got pulled by the local police and they stopped me just to ask me to go full speed so they can hear and enjoy the exhaust sound. It can only happen in a Porsche. I´m still improving the car and already installed a KW V3 suspension, which is day and night compared to OEM. Next changes will be Numeric short shifter, Goodridge braided brake lines , Titan roll cage, and the hole sport setup from Fabspeed (carbon Y intake, Sport Cup exhaust, ECU tune). I´ll keep you posted!

You're making a decision without actually hearing Tubi's in person? I have X51 Headers and a Tubi Muffler/exhaust and it sounds VERY much like a Porsche. It burbles when cold-start, braps nicely with throttle, and sounds like heaven under load.

Tubi exhaust was ace. Old mate needs to hear it with his own ears both from the outside and from within the cabin. Closest I've heard a water-cooled 911 sounding like an aircooled race car. Keep it below 3k rpm, and you can drive around town without attention.

I agree the PSE sounds great .... The trick I have found with the PSE is to get the car going once in awhile ... get the car up to up to 160 / 180 and then at regular speed the pitch and sound seems to open up a bit my motorcycle seems to do the same thing after a good blast .

Here is my Soul exhaust as a ref.




Here is my previous exhaust that was Gundo hacked.

Soul sounds great, 'dega. Did you do headers and cats, too?

Nope, those are all stock.

Welp, now I'm one step closer to a Soul exhaust for my .1. Any noticeable change in performance? I'd prefer to install a used PSE system to stay closer to factory and curious any 'sacrifices' more so than any 'gains'...

Thanks for posting up the video comparison, not often we see it that well done. If Mike hasn't already asked, what you be up for us using the SOUL equipped clip? If so, could you send the raw video to marketing@soulpp.com? We'd love to feature the car and add it into our resources for customer moving forwards : )

We'd love to have you join the SOUL community, anything we can do to help you choose us with confidence don't hesitate to ask :cheers:

Regards,
John Gaydos

Please check my build at @perfect_997c2

I don't know that there will ever be any consensus on this topic which has been brought up more times than I can remember. First reason of course is that there are so many options and combinations available that I doubt anyone has heard all of them. And even if you somehow managed to find a group of say 10 people who all claimed to have heard every available exhaust option/combination for the 997.1 and 997.2, exhaust note is so subjective that you would probably get 10 different opinions.

PSE and Sharkwerks on my GTS sounds very much like a Porsche at its best to me so I personally have no desire to experiment further. No affiliation with Sharkwerks btw.

I just want everyone to know that we make it a point to be as accommodating as we can. We're happy to chat on the phone to see if we can meet your unique needs. We will also take the system back if it you feel it doesn't quite meet the mark that we suggested it would hit. We're always here, and we're always ready to help. :)

-Mike