Uhhh Pypes Touring are cheap and I promise you there's no drone and your neighbors won't hate you so much in the morning
Dont try and tell these kids that they dont know how to drive a stick or pick a gear and RPM range. :lol:
I would not call the S-type an exotic sound. It sounds great, but definitely more muscle tone. It doesn't drone but has sound presence in the cabin at any speed (you will hear a deep hum coming from behind you at cruise). The Corsa Sport definitely has a more exotic note, but still a deep tone overall. It maintains the tone through the revs extremely well and has zero drone. Barely audible at constant speed cruise, but as soon as you accelerate, even to go up a hill, you'll hear it.
I've got the street with 15k miles on it. It drones between about 1500 and 1800..unless you're sitting in high gear at very low speeds that would basically be if you're sitting in 6th somewhere in the 60mph range on the higway. I personally don't have any issue with that since I'm rarely there. I usually keep it in 5th if I'm doing 60 on a two lane.
The MBRP street, for me, was a used purchase. The guy had put less than 1k miles on it. It was kinda raspy at first when getting over about 3k rpm. Over the course of about 5000 miles it opened up and got deep and growly throughout almost the entire RPM range. At high RPM now it sounds like a v8 type track car.
Borla makes a great product, certainly.
A few thousand. I gave it time to break in or whatever, but the rasp/splatting didn't go away. I have a feeling it's just the nature of a louvered core at the rear of the car. Flow gets really turbulent just before exit, and the tone suffers.
Hmm..I don't feel like mine is overly raspy anymore, but our tolerance levels are probably different. To each his own. I might like something more expensive too but I'll probably never bother trying.
If you like your current setup, minus the drone, get a pair of resonators for your ride. You could easily have it all done, including the weld job, for under $150.
You think the resonator would kill the drone? I figured it was from the mufflers
No, it will just reduce it via a small volume reduction. Drone is muffler-driven, and resonators do two things: 1) reduce volume 2) reduce high frequency tones and rasp.