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A less malicious part of it also arises from the fact that the cheaper the modification, the worse it sounds. You can make a car sound excellent with no drone
by BoorishBears 3y ago
A less malicious part of it also arises from the fact that the cheaper the modification, the worse it sounds.
You can make a car sound excellent with no drone with a $5,000 factory quality upgrade... or you can pay some bozo $100 to cut out your muffler and weld in a straight line pipe.
That may not entitle them, but it represents how people might make this choice without intentionally being a nuance in mind
- navhc 3y agoSo don't make the modifications at all if it's going to make it a nuisance?
- BoorishBears 3y ago[flagged]
- Teever 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- BoorishBears 3y agoI'd say a less mentioned guideline is "Please don't leave insubstantial comments playing psuedo-mod" but it's actually addressed right there in the rules you linked.
- petesergeant 3y agoNo no, cars and bikes leave the factory quiet. You have to expend time and money to Alex them noisy
- BoorishBears 3y agoThat's not true, there are cars that can break noise regulations stock, even mass production models: https://www.thedrive.com/news/stock-hyundai-elantra-n-fails-noise-test-leaves-owner-stuck-without-registration https://www.thedrive.com/news/stock-hyundai-elantra-n-fails-... The key difference is even loud factory exhaust setups leave room for relatively quiet operation depending on how you drive. That Elantra driver was an idiot: he went in a town and drove in sport mode and drove in a way that forces extra loud pops If he hadn't been forcing it the car was perfectly capable of not making excessive noise. — The $100 bozo special on the other hand has none of that: it's always loud and obnoxious. In fact it gets more obnoxious at cruising RPM because of drone. There are aftermarket exhausts that try to match the factory-style "not loud by default", but they're expensive because it takes careful engineering and integrating things like valves and Helmholtz resonators.
- Fatnino 3y agoI have a 23 year old civic with little to no rust (yay California) except for a huge rust hole on the exhaust just before the muffler. So the modification is free! I was looking into some kind of fix to wrap around the pipe but instead I had a very good deal on a 13 year old prius fall in my lap so now the civic is parked up while I decide what to do with it.