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Originally Posted by Kamero6
Great video, it sounds badass. I test drove a LT1 6M back in january with regular exhaust and it was kind of quiet. Same with my old corvette.
If you like it loud you can get a used sound tube and make it louder in the cabin. I don't know why people hate the sound tube or say it's fake. Apparently GM removed it at some point.
I'm still thinking on getting a M6 later this year. Do you still have 60k factory warranty even being the 2nd owner? |
I can't say that I hate it, but I am glad I don't have one. When I think back to the 'golden age' of muscle cars when I was still buying cars and modding them rather than just buying a final product I was happy with several things that are relevant to your question come to mind.
Why put a dual exhaust and headers on a V8 that didn't come with that? Because it is a performance enhancing move to allow a car to breath better and sets you up for other performance mods. Why put in a cam - for performance. Why supercharge, - for performance. The changes in exhaust note, cammed idle sounds, supercharger whine, were incidental to improving performance. Those sounds came to be associated with cars that were set up to run, but IMHO the sounds were secondary effects, the primary purpose was performance.
Think about why we like those particular sounds? We associate them with badass cars.
Putting a sound tube on a car does nothing for performance, it just makes the car sound 'better' and only to the occupants. But the 'better' sound was originally a marker of performance.
So to me, sound tubes are fake because they 'sound like' a modded car with a performance exhaust, but they aren't. If I had one, I would remove it.