Meanwhile I'm getting pulled over multiple times for my loud exhaust because my muffler fell off and I don't have the money to fix it.
Then the cop pulling me over has to stop talking as a motorcycle drives by so loud he can't even hear himself.
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That's because the law wasn't made because rich assholes, but because broken exhausts, wether by design or by negligence, are a god damn nuisance.
And yet the people who's cars are loud by design are largely ignored because fuck the poor.
"Hey I see your muffler is broken"
"Yeah I don't have the money to fix it"
"Well now you'll have even less money, here's your $150 ticket"
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Compared to straight pipe, you would have a short pipe. Being so much closer to the engine, you'd get more noise. Even straight pipe dampens the noise a bit.
In Germany its usually the fast cars that get pulled over for being too loud, my exhaust pipe on my old car was completely rusted through and I drove through a police check where they pull everyone over.
They didnt say anything regarding the exhaust.
I replaced it before the next inspection, because I would have never passed with it rusted through.
Probably they seen rusted car and understood that it's not your initention to be loud.
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The problem is that loud pipes are CHEAP.
Literally straight-piping your car is one of the cheapest mods.
You actually have to pay more money if you want more performance and for it to be (relatively) quiet. That's one of the reasons loud vehicles are so common because and best solution for more performance is also the cheapest.
(It is more complicated than that, but this isn't the car community to where the nuances matter)
Yup. When my exhaust fell off, I replaced it with straight pipe because it was the cheapest option. I also don't rev my engine through neighborhoods, so no body cares. I can't tell much of a noise difference in or out. I think the turbocharger did most of the damping.
In a lot of places a turbo is considered a muffler or sound damping device which allows for exhausts to be straight piped after the turbo legally.
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All my cars are straight-piped. They still aren't that particularly loud.
Is there a car community on Lemmy yet?
So far I've only seen the very vocal anti car community
There's a mechanic advice page but not many have asked for advice. This is a shameless plug bc somehow I ended up being a part of that place and would love to see it active
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Just put a vuvuzela in the exhaust pipe.
Just remove all the exhaust manifold and let the gases just exit the engine without any noise filtering.
After about a couple of hours of driving, the owner will probably come back and ask for louder pipes.
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Or a fleshlight
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This post is funny because it's true
The funny thing is the loudest exhaust possible is probably the cheapest as it's basically just a pipe with no features
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Or conversely, having bass boosters so strong that it's questionable as to how you car hasn't fallen apart.
Nothing like hearing that bass followed by the trunk lid rattle on a 20 year old Pontiac.
Ironically enough nobody in the world has been deterred from loud exhausts because of the cost. You literally just cut the muffler off, you can do it for under $10 working from scratch
Please don't tell them.
I knew what this was before I clicked it to be sure lol.
It must be hard when your accomplishments are so little that no one notices you exist; i might be an obnoxious man child just to get people to notice me too.
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