straight pipes, Is it ignorant?

[mcfalcon]

IMO it depends on driver and situation. I love loud exhausts. What I dont love are loud exhaust on stock motors and people thinking they have a badass truck. I used to have this stock dodge 1500 running around my neighborhood all the time revving his motor with his loud exhaust and stock motor(like everyday). One day I was out messing with my toy(78 F100 SWB 400BB with C6 transmission) and he drove by revving it up like always. I jumped in my toy and ran him down caught up with him on highway. I bumped the gas and he bumped(alright im thinking he bit) so we get after and I smoked his ass. He never come through my neighborhood revving it up again. But yes exhaust is fine as long as you know its only exhaust its not like you dropped in a supercharger.

[TRON]

It's damn annoying, and no different than the kids with the big fart canons on their civics.

I can't say about vehicles, but with my sleds I've had the crazy loud exhaust systems and not only does it lose its fun very quickly, it's the worst thing to have when you want to got for a nice quiet cruise. I ended up having to wear ear plugs before I finally put the stock exhaust back on.

[yurvalentine]

I don't mind loud at all, but straight piped doesn't usually sound good. Kind of like subarus with that god awful 6" exhaust kids think is so cool. Not apposed to loudness, just the horrible sound.

[Broke_Audio_Addict]

I like a nice sounding exhaust not a super loud one which is possible with an aftermarket exhaust if done right. Straight pipes in most cases sound like shit and are doing more harm than good. Really if you have a performance car and you drive it daily and you straight pipe it your an asshole how about put some cutouts on it for track days and leave a full exhaust for the street.

[OrionStang]

If you actually do it for performance reasons, thats OK. Like this guy ^^^^ said though, have a way to open up the exhaust on track days, but keep it reasonable daily. My car sounds fucking sick with no cats ( I don't run mufflers), but I know that not everybody appreciate that sickness LOL. I could gain 10-20 hp by loosing the cats again, but I do have some sense of respect.

The back pressure argument becomes irrelevant with any boosted or built N/A motor. Just thought id point that out.

[Phaeton]

small 4 cylinder engines stright piped sound lame

big motors 6+ liters sound alright.

bigger motors 8+ liters sound cool

everything pisses me the fuck off at 3am when i got work in the morning and these tools are flooring their shit all the time.

[laxbro19]

I love a loud exhaust but imo straight pipes only work on built motors and even then most still sound like shit. I love a nice set of true duals done right with headers and performance mufflers

[CleanSierra]

Sounds too cackly and annoying for me. I saw my share when I lived in Missouri. I prefer a nice H or X pipe with a good performance muffler on a V-8. Flowmaster is still my fave but Bassani on the right vehicle sounds damn good.

[Marquisboys]

Straight pipes sound like poo, yeah its loud but woo hoo theres not a good sounding exhaust note to it. Just loud and brap.

Get some nice mufflers and make it sound good. Have some growl to it.

You can tell when someone wanted there exhaust to sound good instead of just straight piping the bitch. That will get you noticed in a good way.

[lifted_silverado]

Meengreen how the hell did you cram a 6" turbo back on that and a 6" downpipe off the turbo? Only engine I've ever seen hold a 6" is a cummins and thats after a lot of fab work and only a 5" downpipe.

My 5.9 cummins is 4" turbo back straight pipe and I and everyone I've ever been asked by love the sound of an inline 6 diesel straight pipe. The engine is loud as shit anyway so the pipe doesn't add much volume unless I'm hard in the throttle. There are those dipshits that run around in their old beat up 90s model gasser that make it get a bad wrap but a nice clean hopped up engine im all for straight pipes.