Hello fellow s2k-ers!

Well, its been two great years with the s2k, and getting ready to take it out on its third spring soon and I would love to install some nice audio. I am a music buff, and a car buff, and I have always had nice ICE in my previous cars. However, I do have a Megan single exhaust currently on the car. Now, the drone on that thing can sometimes make me want to drive the car off a cliff, but at the same times, the look, and sound at WOT gives me a tingly sensation in my pants. Clearly a love/hate relationship im having. How many of you have a loud exhaust, but still rock some slammin subwoofers? Is it even worth it? Or should I go back to stock exhaust (maybe no difference in power) or can I get away with both?

Thanks for the feedback, and yes, I searched, but did not find a good answer

Ian

 

I guess it really depends on if you don't mind listening to your music pretty loud when accelerating and then lower it a bit when at a cruising speed. You should be find with adding a nice system to your car and worse comes to worse you get a quieter exhaust or go back to stock. I say go for it!

 

I'm turbo with a custom 3" exhaust It gets pretty loud but not as loud as the 3" megan. I have a infinity 10" basslink subwoofer with alpine type R components I can hear the music over the exhaust easy just turn it up

 

My fellow UK owner "unclefester" has a loud-ish exhaust, decat (test pipe in US English?) and intake but has done a lot of sound deadening which makes a huge improvement in sound quality.


https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...post&p=17964591

You can see from these Alpine Imprint measurements, that the frequency response of his car before correction is way better than that of my car which only has had some work done to the doors.

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Mine


So, some good sound deadening, allied to a good head unit, some good components, a decent amp and a sub wil result in good sound. Quite expensive to do well, but worth doing if you like quality sounds.

 

I've got a 3" HKS mated to a 3" hfc with a JL audio stealthbox + 10" JL Audio 10w3... my system easily overpowers my exhaust. the exhaust is quiet at cruising speeds, depending on the materials/quality of your exhaust it shouldn't interfere with your music listening at all. Getting a sub makes a huge difference in overpowering road/exhaust noise, and like someone else said, sound deadening will help too. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

i've got a header-back exhaust and my cat-back is hks hi-power so it's not exactly quiet and i've got 2 fosgate punch z 10's that EASILY overpower the exhaust but when i want to hear it, it's pretty easy to lay my foot down. haha