Active valve exhaust weirdness

[young at heart]

When I crank my ‘22 6MT Mach 1 and go through the various drive modes with the center levers while still in neutral, changing the drive mode has no effect on the active exhaust. It stays the same, even in Track mode. Once I’m going down the road then changing drive modes does seem to change the exhaust. Is this how it’s supposed to work on the manual transmission cars? My ‘20 GT is an automatic and the exhaust mode changes with the drive mode selected right from the git.

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[Ctodd1]

Or pull the fuse 34 and stays in track exhaust mode all the time

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

When I crank my ‘22 6MT Mach 1 and go through the various drive modes with the center levers while still in neutral, changing the drive mode has no effect on the active exhaust. It stays the same, even in Track mode. Once I’m going down the road then changing drive modes does seem to change the exhaust. Is this how it’s supposed to work on the manual transmission cars? My ‘20 GT is an automatic and the exhaust mode changes with the drive mode selected right from the git.

You notice a very slight variation at idle. When you are driving you notice the big change between track and Normal mode.

 

[black22gt]

For me, in the car, it's actually slightly louder/bassier on quiet mode at idle than track. I bet it's changing, you just can't hear the difference. Next time, hit the buttons then navigate to the active exhaust menu and see what it is on. Or blip the throttle.

ETA I drive a GT, the Mach may really behave differently, so ymmv.

 

[young at heart]

You notice a very slight variation at idle. When you are driving you notice the big change between track and Normal mode.

That‘s kinda how it is on my manual Mach, but it’s very audible on my automatic GT.

 

[young at heart]

For me, in the car, it's actually slightly louder/bassier on quiet mode at idle than track. I bet it's changing, you just can't hear the difference. Next time, hit the buttons then navigate to the active exhaust menu and see what it is on. Or blip the throttle.

ETA I drive a GT, the Mach may really behave differently, so ymmv.

I‘ll try a throttle blip, thanks.

 

[DadzMach]

For me, in the car, it's actually slightly louder/bassier on quiet mode at idle than track. I bet it's changing, you just can't hear the difference. Next time, hit the buttons then navigate to the active exhaust menu and see what it is on. Or blip the throttle.

ETA I drive a GT, the Mach may really behave differently, so ymmv.

Is there another way to change the mode besides going through the menu? Also, does it always revert back to normal when you shut the car off? I have to change it every time I get in.

 

[MAGS1]

Is there another way to change the mode besides going through the menu? Also, does it always revert back to normal when you shut the car off? I have to change it every time I get in.

Yes it defaults to Normal every time you turn off the car (unless you have Quiet Start enabled)

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

Is there another way to change the mode besides going through the menu? Also, does it always revert back to normal when you shut the car off? I have to change it every time I get in.

Yes it reverts back unfortunately. You can create my mode is the quickest way. I have it set on sport plus and track exhaust. So when I get in I toggle up twice and done it’s perfect much easier than going through the menus.

 

[DadzMach]

Yes it reverts back unfortunately. You can create my mode is the quickest way. I have it set on sport plus and track exhaust. So when I get in I toggle up twice and done it’s perfect much easier than going through the menus.

Thank you for the help. On the GT350 it was one of the toggle switches and so much easier.

 

[black22gt]

If i could figure out how to make an exhaust switch in forscan or something, i would for this reason! Probably will do a digital dash and pony button swap at some point.

 

[swoop1156]

Mine behaves wonky (or how designed) sometimes as well. I can change modes while in neutral, and then only once I select 1st gear and get moving a tiny bit, you can audibly hear a change without any throttle application from my foot. It's nice how it'll apply throttle itself if you don't do anything to keep it from stalling.

 

[young at heart]

Mine behaves wonky (or how designed) sometimes as well. I can change modes while in neutral, and then only once I select 1st gear and get moving a tiny bit, you can audibly hear a change without any throttle application from my foot. It's nice how it'll apply throttle itself if you don't do anything to keep it from stalling.

Yep, that’s it! I phrased it poorly but I believe that’s what mine is doing as well. I’ll double check. Perhaps that’s what it’s supposed to do?

 

[Vertex]

I may chalk it up to being a different exhaust on the GT vs the Mach. I don't notice a difference in my Mach when I change exhaust modes when sitting at idle, only when I'm driving down the road and I change it. I normally drive my car exclusively in drag mode when I start driving it because it shifts smoothest in that mode unless I'm on it hard and it gives me the lunge shifts at high rpm, otherwise smooth as butter.

If you really wanna know for sure if it's changing just navigate to the my mode menu that displays in your instrument cluster when you change drive modes to see that it is changing as it should be and it will display the modes exhaust/transmission/suspension settings.

 

[MX915]

For what its worth, my 22 GT A10 sound doesn't change until you move from park into drive. I dont recall if its the same on the Mach since its been in the garage for 3 months, but I would assume so.

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