Reply to "GTS exhaust gutting"

I installed the gutted, or rather bypassed exhaust cans on my mate Geoff's car this weekend. It sounds fantastic. Huge improvement over the original GTS cans, but not too loud. I think the resonators in the tail pipes must do something because there is not much holy pipe left inside the cans with my Y piece installed.

We took the car out for a drive and found it to be no noisier inside the car at all. In fact Geoff said that the uncomfortable resonating drone at 1800RPM (427 Windsor) had been reduced considerably.

I did take some video clips with my camera, but failed to really capture the sound. I wanted to stand behind the car and record Geoff accelerating away under full power, but the bloody roads around Surrey (just outside London) are so busy, we couldn't find a quiet road anywhere.
I found that rather frustrating coming from sleepy old Devon where the roads are quiet and I can drive around like Mad Max..most of the time.

I dont know how to upload video clips, so I am going to send them to Garth and ask him to upload them. He's better at this than me. One of the video clips is my car (351C) accelerating away on an air field. My exhausts are factory group 3 so almost identical to the modified cans on Geoff's car (red GT5) I manage to change from 1st to 4th but it still sounds great!

To summarise: If you do the same as I have in this story, it will sound great. Not as loud as you might think.

Johnny