cyfi66

Given my experience I agree with you fully. I'm too nit picky about these things and opinions on exhausts vary so much that you'd think people were talking about two totally different cars.

Meraki Autoworks

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Waiting on our Ark Performance exhausts to come in! So many to ship out!

-Josh

808c2s

It's not the HP that you're after as you can't feel much in a relatively high HP car like this, but it's the 20 ft-lb of TQ through out the rev range that will make you notice a better response. I believe this was dyno proven on a dyno jet with one of the FB members' car.

DLPTony

I agree 100%!

Would love to have the snaps of the LC500, but from what I’ve seen/heard, none of the aftermarket options to date have replicated it exactly. The largest point being, the drone inside the cabin. Several have said ‘no drone’, I’ll watch the vid and come away with: “Their hearing needs to be checked, that’s Drone City!” 😜

flowrider

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^^^^I have an LC with PPE headers and dual mode exhaust. I believe the no drone in an LC is more because of sound deadening materials than exhaust. I had the same exhaust setup on my ISF and cabin noise was louder in the ISF.

DLPTony

I figured one of the factors could be the amount of sound deadening material in the LC vs ours. It’s probably why I’ll never get an exhaust for the foreseeable future. The low rumble out of the box is plenty for me, especially since I rarely listen to the radio.

Rpgove3334

any borla’s available for is500

DLPTony

A few mixed in with the Apexi midpipe.

https:/www.facebook.com/share/p/cMaoimj3Gw4duD6G/?

cyfi66

I decided to pull mine off so if you are interested in it let me know. I decided I like the quiet exhaust quite a bit after all, I didn't like the attention, already had 2 people want to race the first day I put it on.

Pandonsf

glad i wasn’t the only one that pulled it off right after installing.

snowyblue

was that with oem mid pipe or aftermarket?

DLPTony

No freaking way. It was that loud?! 🤣

That’s kinda cool and crazy all in one, but I would’ve done the same. Even though the car is blue and demon red, I’m Team Sleeper. 😎

prophecywhiteis500

That's a bit frustrating how loud these suckers are. I get that the main buyers of exhaust want it loud, but the majority of them drive domestics (most of the Mustangs). Lexus is a different breed, I think Lexus owners want refined sound, rather than volume, which is unfortunate because even the videos people are posting, I can tell a lot of the brands are a bit much for my taste.

As I mentioned before, if a company can make something similar to the cold start sound permanent, that would be fantastic. I wish stock was a little (not a lot) louder once all warmed up.

cyfi66

I think I'd be OK with the volume but they advertised NO DRONE and NO DRONE GUARANTEED and I took that literally. I just felt like there was light drone 1,900 - 2,100 and it bugged me. It was a little louder than I like but not terrible, it sounded bad ***. But yeah I'd rather people think I am an old grandpa anyways . The cold start was loud enough to get my neighbor to come outside in his PJ's, but he is really nosy anyways lol. I don't want to be "that guy" in the neighborhood, its already pretty loud cold start stock.

I bet with a non resonated midpipe it would be too loud. Mine was stock everything just axle back. As soon as I put the stock one back on I could tell the resonance at 1,900-2,000 was completely gone.

jeffhillslint

I have lurked here for months and read through parts of this thread numerous times. Does anyone have any familiarity with both the valved RR Racing and the new Borla option? It seems the new Borla axle back has some resonance around 2-2,750 rpm’s. I have seen complaints with the RR option having some drone as well. Has anyone here heard the RR closed vs the Borla?

I want exhaust, but I don’t want any drone. My M2C had undetectable (to me) drone with the valved exhaust closed.

I love the idea of a valved exhaust based on my experiences with my previous M2 Comp (installed Dinan catback) and CT4V Blackwing.

Sorry if this is rambling and not productive to the conversation, but I’m ready to order something. Videos and sound clips on the internet aren’t always indicative of real world sound. Any help is appreciated.