Are you referring to one brand or all other systems? The Corsa has NO drone AT ALL.

 

JK, I forgot Corsa. Corsa, GT500 and Borla have no drone. All others do. And majority of others are raspy/ricer.

Take a video and some pics of your S Type!

 

HA! Love the #tigerblood avatar, overboost.

 

I need to get out and take some video of the car with the X-pipe installed.

 

This is some ridiculous misinformation.

 

It's all relative. What's loud to one guy is fine to another.

 

Nothing to is worse than going to all the expense and effort of changing the exhaust only to find the difference is marginal.

 

That reminds me of when I put a Steeda cat back on my 04 GT. Very disappointed. Thats why it is taking me 3+ months to figure out what I want. Stainless Works/Kooks seem to be perfect for the price. Maybe I'll start a thread with a poll question and just go with what the people think. I certainly can't decide for myself right now.

 

I started with the Roush axle backs, they are pretty loud (to my 38 yr old ears anyway) but they sound good and NO DRONE. I now have the Heartthrob 3" w/Hpipe cat to axle and GT500 axle backs on my car and it sounds perfect to me also, NO DRONE. I still have the Roush mufflers and might put them back on with the Heartthrob just to hear it. But I think I am sticking with the GT500's.

 

I'm waiting for availability of the BOSS 302 sound pipes. I would think they are easy to place on a 2012 GT as it appears that they split off of the H pipe. To me, the ability to fit dump valves and have loud when you want it and not when you don't is great. Anyone seen any information on if this would even be possible?

 

Do it and tell us which one you like best. Also does your heartthrob exhaust have the built in flowpack mufflers or did you get straight pipe?

 

try without the X pipe first the are pretty loud... I left a friends house today and a minute later I got a text from him (he was inside) saying man your car is loud

 

Yeah I don't think I am getting an accurate picture from inside my car. Inside my car with the windows down it seems PURRRRRRRFECT.

It's such a different sound than the Bassanis it's hard to choose one in terms of exhaust note. I would lean Borla just b/c of the drone...but the Bassani sounds deep and smooth, whereas the type-S is vicious and mid/higher.

 

Mine has the resonators.

 

Gotta say...I'm loving the Bassani AB. I was originally going with the Borla S AB, but switched after listening to a couple cars in person. The Bassani's have the truest muscle car sound IMO. As far as drone, I have none (just as Bassani claims in their advertising). At 1.5-2k RPM, it sounds ballsy but not obnoxious. At 4k+, it sounds like a frickin race car.

The price difference between Borla and Bassani also helped my decision.
Bassani all the way.

 

I don't believe you (maybe I do, but...). The Bassani resonance (the kind that you feel in the cabin and gives you a headache) is KILLER at 2k RPM. Maybe you can poke around 2300 or 2200 since you're running 3.73s?

Most people I talked to with Bassani have anywhere from slight drone to heavy drone. Never found one who said no drone!

 

Well I ran an OR xpipe with no mufflers on my '05 GT. That was obnoxious and loud. Cruising at 60mph which is about 2k RPM with 3.73's is nothing but deep rumble...not drone...with the Bassanis. Even had a couple girls in the back seat ( ) while cruising around who said it sounded good.

Maybe the issue is the definition of drone. Drone to me is a fart cannon equipped import in a high gear going down the road. Sounds awful.

 

Hmm.

I'm using drone to mean that specific frequency resonance that you feel coarses throughout the cabin. My girlfriend immediately noticed it whenever I had my foot on the pedal at 2,000 RPM.

I LIKE hearing engine/exhaust sounds inside the cabin. I'm not talking about that. Maybe my car is just unlucky.

 

Well like you said, I'm running 3.73's. So I'm rarely driving at the loudest/most resonating RPM level (~2krpm...60mph in 6th), which is where you are talking about.

Anyone have a link to what the RPM is given your speed and gearing? Or is there a formula?

ex: 60 mph in 6th gear with 3.73's = X RPM?

 

Thing is, I never took my car up to sixth gear (no room around here). I was getting heavy drone at 2nd to 5th gear. Only first gear at 2,000 RPM was tolerable. Rest made me want to die.