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Originally Posted by creeper
honestly, nothing in the engine bay makes very much noise at all. exhaust just really isn't very loud at all at idle. you can hear the pump so that will be replaced soon, but the minimal amount of valvetrain noise that i have is nothing out of the ordinary.
my original post was a slight exaggeration, you can hear it. my point was just that if that really is the legal limit it is stupidly quiet, and absolutely any aftermarket exhaust greatly exceeds it.
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i, for one, found this most entertaining. informative, even. so maybe all of those cops are right and we're wrong? the exhaust really does exceed SAE standards? wow*. just... wow.
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Originally Posted by creeper
really i don't see why everyone thinks longtubes automatically means insanely loud. automatics idle at 550 and through a magnaflow even with longtubes it is very very tame.
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but outside of the law, according to your anecdote.
*btw, there is zero sarcasm in my reply. i know it's hard to tell with typed words what the mindset is of the typist, but i can assure you i meant no sarcasm at all.