Turbo with Sport Exhaust video
01-07-2019, 09:16 PM
#16
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Video with Sport Exhaust baffles closed
Finally got around to posting a short video with the baffles closed (Sport Exhaust off) during cold start-up. There's not a great deal of difference -- the exhaust still sounds very sporty, and more aggressive than the stock exhaust videos I've seen.
So, if you order SE, be prepared for a baseline level of rudeness no matter what you do. The noise is pretty much the same listening from the outside. Opening the baffles just ups the volume. There are a few occasional pops and crackles, but nothing like in our SS. The Porsche sounds classier. Which frankly I would hope it would.
Neither mode is sedate or relaxing. You know you're driving a 541-horsepower V8 pretty much all the time. If you just cruise around at part throttle, particularly on the highway, it's reasonably muted, but the grumbly undertone is still there. If you want to debadge your Turbo for Q-ship stealth, consider this option carefully. Porsche seems to have targeted it toward Dale Earnhardt lovers, or fans of John Force and his daughter. That's more than okay by us.
Oh, and newbie2p, thank you for the nice things you said. I wish you the best of luck with your new Cayenne. I hope you'll post as things move along -- I don't think I'm alone when I say I enjoy reading about other people's Porsche journeys. So far, so good for us!
So, if you order SE, be prepared for a baseline level of rudeness no matter what you do. The noise is pretty much the same listening from the outside. Opening the baffles just ups the volume. There are a few occasional pops and crackles, but nothing like in our SS. The Porsche sounds classier. Which frankly I would hope it would.
Neither mode is sedate or relaxing. You know you're driving a 541-horsepower V8 pretty much all the time. If you just cruise around at part throttle, particularly on the highway, it's reasonably muted, but the grumbly undertone is still there. If you want to debadge your Turbo for Q-ship stealth, consider this option carefully. Porsche seems to have targeted it toward Dale Earnhardt lovers, or fans of John Force and his daughter. That's more than okay by us.
Oh, and newbie2p, thank you for the nice things you said. I wish you the best of luck with your new Cayenne. I hope you'll post as things move along -- I don't think I'm alone when I say I enjoy reading about other people's Porsche journeys. So far, so good for us!
01-11-2019, 05:17 PM
#18
Drifting
So after listening to the sound clip of PSE on the new gen Turbo, that sounds fantastic. Finally Porsche seems to have ramped up the exhaust sound quality for the CTT which M-B AMG had already figured out long ago for their turbo V8 SUVs. I had 957 and 958.1 gen CTTs and they sounded quite pedestrian, nothing like this new one...not even close! Nor did they even offer the option of PSE then for the CTT.
Very nice!
Very nice!
01-12-2019, 02:43 AM
#20
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Dunno about that. There are days when I wonder if we "wasted" $150K on a Turbo when the base model is fantastic in every way, and more than enough for a DD SUV. You made the smart choice. We made the irrational, emotional one! But thanks for the compliment.
01-16-2019, 09:49 AM
#22
Burning Brakes
Hard to compare from the two videos. They both sound awesome.
Couldn't agree more on the sound btw. Super important.
Couldn't agree more on the sound btw. Super important.
01-16-2019, 03:43 PM
#23
Burning Brakes
01-16-2019, 10:23 PM
#25
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
That sure sounds like our Sport Exhaust. Where in the YouTube listing does it indicate it’s the standard exhaust?
The reason I ask is because this is what I was used to hearing from Turbos without PSE. Skip ahead to 57 seconds. Sounds sort of tractor-like.
BUT... that’s a Euro car and sound regulations are different over there. I hope the stock exhaust sounds like your video too, even though we dropped the cash on PSE. A performance V8 should sound like a performance V8 no matter what.
The reason I ask is because this is what I was used to hearing from Turbos without PSE. Skip ahead to 57 seconds. Sounds sort of tractor-like.
BUT... that’s a Euro car and sound regulations are different over there. I hope the stock exhaust sounds like your video too, even though we dropped the cash on PSE. A performance V8 should sound like a performance V8 no matter what.
01-19-2019, 04:04 AM
#28
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Quick update: I'm still learning how our Turbo works. I don't get to drive it all that often, as it's my wife's car. But I have found that the drive mode (Normal, Sport, Sport Plus) makes a substantial difference in the aggressiveness of the exhaust note whether PSE is enabled or disabled. The videos I posted earlier were taken in Normal mode, with PSE baffles open (PSE engaged) or closed. I was showing a buddy of mine the car, and noticed that the car was meaner than usual at the back than I remembered. Lots meaner. Tons of pops, crackles and little backfires on overrun. Reason? I had the car in Sport Plus.
I'm extrapolating here, but I would guess that whether you order PSE or not, if you drop the car into Sport or Sport Plus mode, you're going to get a more aggressive exhaust note. This differs from our other car with an big V8 and active exhaust. It too has various drive modes, but moving from Normal to Sport to Track makes no difference in exhaust sound. Once the baffles open, it's the same deal. Not so with our Turbo.
One other interesting bit. You'd better have your foot firmly on the brake if you engage Sport Plus from either Normal or Sport Mode. The idle jumps up a little right away. Combined with the revised engine tuning, the car wants to lunge forward like a pissed-off dog on a chain. Caught me off guard the fist time.
The car is a bad biyatch.
I'm extrapolating here, but I would guess that whether you order PSE or not, if you drop the car into Sport or Sport Plus mode, you're going to get a more aggressive exhaust note. This differs from our other car with an big V8 and active exhaust. It too has various drive modes, but moving from Normal to Sport to Track makes no difference in exhaust sound. Once the baffles open, it's the same deal. Not so with our Turbo.
One other interesting bit. You'd better have your foot firmly on the brake if you engage Sport Plus from either Normal or Sport Mode. The idle jumps up a little right away. Combined with the revised engine tuning, the car wants to lunge forward like a pissed-off dog on a chain. Caught me off guard the fist time.
The car is a bad biyatch.
01-21-2019, 01:41 AM
#29
Burning Brakes
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I've had a few requests for videos of PSE enabled and disabled with the car in Sport Plus mode. It's a pretty dramatic difference as shown below. One is sophomoric. The other is still fairly smooth, but aggressive. You can guess which we prefer. I think my wife and I may be the oldest living teenagers.
Sorry for all the wind noise. We had a front blowing through. My daughter volunteered to video. Really!
Sorry for all the wind noise. We had a front blowing through. My daughter volunteered to video. Really!
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john rock (09-12-2019)
09-03-2019, 10:19 PM
#30
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I have never driven the Panamera Turbo without sport exhaust on, I set it in individual setting. It makes the car. I have a S 2020 Cayenne on order and put sport exhaust on it, a must have for me.