Do you ever drive with rear seats down for more exhaust sound?

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Roadcone

I've been doing this back and forth lately. On longer multi-hour trips it makes me hate my car.

Yeah, when I drive on long trips, that exhaust noise makes it hard to get any sleep.

I kind of feel like the people who complain about noise or install a bunch of sound deadening bought the wrong car.

[extrashaky]

For the whiners, this is almost exactly what my TR6 sounded like to drive. This guy's car is set up very similar to the way mine was (except I had a windshield), and I also had the tonneau for when the weather was cold. Even with a Corsa exhaust, my BRZ is very civilized in comparison.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJS4trpacvc"]South North Hindhead TR6 - YouTube[/ame]

[DandoX]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Will not help with wind noise. Welcome to the world of frameless windows. Every car I ever had with frameless windows had loads of wind noise. It is just the nature of the beast.

Frameless windows though, so worth it.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by DandoX

Frameless windows though, so worth it.

Yep

[Roadcone]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Yeah, when I drive on long trips, that exhaust noise makes it hard to get any sleep.

I kind of feel like the people who complain about noise or install a bunch of sound deadening bought the wrong car.

I can agree to a point with that but I still think they didn't put enough in these cars. 50 dollars worth of dynamat superlite makes a world of difference in road/tire noise.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Yeah, when I drive on long trips, that exhaust noise makes it hard to get any sleep.

I kind of feel like the people who complain about noise or install a bunch of sound deadening bought the wrong car.

Anybody that thinks these cars are noisy should try to get a ride in a base model sixties Dart or something similar. Zero carpeting or insulation (just some plastic mats), steel door panels, steel dash, basic weather-stripping, cloth headliner and so on. Close the door and the resulting clang would echo for minutes.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Anybody that thinks these cars are noisy should try to get a ride in a base model sixties Dart or something similar. Zero carpeting or insulation (just some plastic mats), steel door panels, steel dash, basic weather-stripping, cloth headliner and so on. Close the door and the resulting clang would echo for minutes.

Tcoat's dodge dart .......and he wondered WHY it was noisy .......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Tcoat's dodge dart .......and he wondered WHY it was noisy .......


humfrz

Will take it!

[mazeroni]

I've been thinking about going back to that. When I got my exhaust replaced I drove like that for about a day when i had to lug my old exhaust home. When the seats went up I guess it struck me that it got quieter, but I sort of thought I was getting use to the sound of the exhaust. Certainly it gets louder with the windows down. Need to do some experimenting, I guess.

[Jordanwolf]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Anybody that thinks these cars are noisy should try to get a ride in a base model sixties Dart or something similar. Zero carpeting or insulation (just some plastic mats), steel door panels, steel dash, basic weather-stripping, cloth headliner and so on. Close the door and the resulting clang would echo for minutes.

Sounds more like a death trap honestly.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Jordanwolf

Sounds more like a death trap honestly.

Yet we survived, snowflake.

[HKz]

yep any time i drive without my kid...and i took out virtually everything out of the trunk too

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Yet we survived, snowflake.

Help weed out the poor drivers in a hurry. If there had been internet there would have been very few "is this totaled" accident posts.

[Jordanwolf]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Yet we survived, snowflake.