Active Exhaust - Meh?

[MustangMitch69]

AE give you good options- quiet kinda like a normal car or rowdy.

Put the car on a slight grade so that there’s a load on the motor - interstate, wherever - and switch through the modes from quiet on up. That’s when I can really notice the differences. And it screams in track mode on a full power pull. I have the H-pipe so it’s louder than OE. Quiet mode with the H-pipe has a good sound.

I've heard a lot people recommend the H-pipe . Are there any good videos of without vs. with? I like the loudness of mine stock with AE and would like a deeper pitch, but without making it any louder or raspier.

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[npole]

Close vales with H-pipe, sounds deeper than stock opened. However with open valves, it's a WAY louder that stock, especially on starting when it's cold. I love it, but some wouldn't, especially the passers.

 

[MustangMitch69]

The standardization of turbochargers has spoiled us all.

I remember driving my friends tuned 595 Abarth and being shocked at how fast it was. It seriously felt like a rocket ship when the turbos came online, even though the powerband was only a few thousand RPM.

We ended up doing some pulls on the highway in the early hours of the morning. We punched it at around 35 mph and pulled to around 100 mph, and I walked him. We then tried while he was a little more in his powerband, and again I walked him.

I was in a bone stock 1997 Prelude, lmao.

The feel and push of torque down low has completely skewed our perception of what is truly fast.

My dad had a 1991 Toyota supra (straight 6) with a turbo, and it felt lightning fast. One time on about a 3 mile straightaway near our house he got it up to 130 or 140 and my mind was blown.

On paper? 232 horsepower at 5,600 RPM.

Double that in an S650 is insane. On the interstate I went from about 70 to 110 just casually going around someone slow in the left lane, at about half throttle. Couldn't believe it.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

I had an H pipe on my Mach 1 and took it off. It was way too loud in traffic and inside the car. Sure it sounded amazing, but anything above 3k was just obnoxious after awhile.

I'm sure most will say I'm in the minority, but too me Track mode is plenty loud. I used it this morning with the windows up and AC on. It's like angles singing. Definitely louder than normal and Sport mode. Anyone who says otherwise must be deaf. Lol

 

[Cz_Ziemniak]

My dad had a 1991 Toyota supra (straight 6) with a turbo, and it felt lightning fast. One time on about a 3 mile straightaway near our house he got it up to 130 or 140 and my mind was blown.

On paper? 232 horsepower at 5,600 RPM.

Double that in an S650 is insane. On the interstate I went from about 70 to 110 just casually going around someone slow in the left lane, at about half throttle. Couldn't believe it.

I dream of going back to the days where 180 horsepower was plenty enough to have fun. Hell, my cammed Spitfire had maybe 70 horse to the rear wheels, maybe. But it felt like a rocketship, never a dull moment. Honda gets probably 160 to the wheels, hardly ever find that not being enough. But now everyone on the internet thinks anything less than 600 horse is slow. I regularly see people online shitting on the GT350 for being slow in videos of them driving, its so dumb.

 

[MustangMitch69]

I dream of going back to the days where 180 horsepower was plenty enough to have fun. Hell, my cammed Spitfire had maybe 70 horse to the rear wheels, maybe. But it felt like a rocketship, never a dull moment. Honda gets probably 160 to the wheels, hardly ever find that not being enough. But now everyone on the internet thinks anything less than 600 horse is slow. I regularly see people online shitting on the GT350 for being slow in videos of them driving, its so dumb.

Agreed. Carroll Shelby's favorite car to drive in his later years, his AC Cobra with the 289, only had 271 hp at 5,800 RPM. After driving literally RACE cars, professionally, he understood that there was a point where it is excessive.

For people going to the drag strip as a hobby, I get it, but for 99% of people probably about 250 horsepower is enough.

My daily driver, a BMW 3-series with a turbo 4, only has about 255 horsepower and it's plenty enough. I could have afforded the straight 6 with more, but for $10K more it was completely unnecessary. Can put that $10K into the stock market and by the time my kids are old enough it'll probably pay for their college. Also, the Bimmer is like my wife and the Mustang is like my mistress, and confusing the two could get me in trouble

 

[Junkyard Dog]

Agreed. Carroll Shelby's favorite car to drive in his later years, his AC Cobra with the 289, only had 271 hp at 5,800 RPM. After driving literally RACE cars, professionally, he understood that there was a point where it is excessive.

For people going to the drag strip as a hobby, I get it, but for 99% of people probably about 250 horsepower is enough.

My daily driver, a BMW 3-series with a turbo 4, only has about 255 horsepower and it's plenty enough. I could have afforded the straight 6 with more, but for $10K more it was completely unnecessary. Can put that $10K into the stock market and by the time my kids are old enough it'll probably pay for their college. Also, the Bimmer is like my wife and the Mustang is like my mistress, and confusing the two could get me in trouble

Anything starting with a 2 is not enough.

Especially not with how heavy cars are today.

An AC Cobra weighs nothing, nor did the Spitfire mentioned above.

I drove a turbocharged Audi with all wheel drive prior to the Mustang. It had 2 something horsepower. Although I admit the car was fun to drive, the horsepower was not enough.

In a two ton car like the Mustang, 250 horsepower is not enough.

I would like to try the Ecoboost 4 cylinder, though. 315 horsepower and 350 lb ft of torque ought to be fun in a 3500 lb package, with a 0-60 of 4.5 seconds. The quarter mile time of 13.2 seconds would have beaten my high school "drag" street car with its lumpy camshaft idle and poor street manners and no air conditioning. Several tuners in the previous generation of Ecoboost have run in the 12s with nothing but a tune.

I was thinking the Ecoboost might make a better HPDE/Track Day road course sort of car than even my Dark Horse, due to the weight and distribution.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45012547/2024-ford-mustang-ecoboost-acceleration-test/

2024 Mustang EcoBoost Is the Quickest Four-Cylinder Stang We've Tested

 

[jboogie1289]

Lots of people come in here asking what catback they should add or what H/C pipe since track mode isn't loud enough

Definitely a Game Changer with the Resonator delete and Pipe of your choice (H, X, Double X or Double whatever)!!

 

[Starship Enterprise]

1980 corvette had like 180 hp.

My 91 Camaro Z28 was a big deal with 275 hp.

My 06 Mustang GT had 300 hp stock.

Now ….a new Ecoboost sporting 315 hp is not too shabby!

Though I saw an Ecoboost aggressively pull out of a parking lot, and sounded like he pulled out any muffler/resonator that it might have had. I asked the nearest person to fart in my ears so there would be a more pleasant sound to replace what I just heard.

 

[Kevi]

Problem with the ecoboost is the power band is so slim. It's only making 250 to the wheels from like 4500 to 5500rpm. Then it falls off a cliff. Extremely narrow power band.

The GT is putting 350+ to the wheels from 3k to well past 7k. There is no drop.

 

[robvas]

Problem with the ecoboost is the power band is so slim. It's only making 250 to the wheels from like 4500 to 5500rpm. Then it falls off a cliff. Extremely narrow power band.

The GT is putting 350+ to the wheels from 3k to well past 7k. There is no drop.

they make 300 torque at 2000rpm

but

All the power is down low. Useless.

tractor motor. Sounds like one too

 

[Frogdog1]

Speaking of Dads, mine bought a new 420hp Mustang when they came out when he was 86 y.o. and it just puttered around town all the time. I asked if he ever went on the highway with it or ever "blew it out"........"Nah, it's OK but let's do it".

We did, I stomped it to 140 and he absolutely loved it, then said, "I want to do it". I thought, oh shit, but he was healthy so off we go at a turnaround in Mexico. He stomped it to 130 and backed off. I would have been grounded until I was 21 had I done something like that in high school. I just didn't get caught in Mom's 455 Oldsmobile.

I like AE partly because my grouchy neighbor doesn't and I'm not quieting it for her........

I also like it when I want to get away from an idiot driver that likes to drive side by side and I don't. That's always the end of it when Sport or Track lights up when in a 45 zone. Amazing how much value people put on exhaust sound.....me being one of them.

 

[Coloradovrs]

I could not find one comparison on YouTube between the stock GT exhaust and the GT active. I want the quietest mode due my neighborhood expectations. I need a side by side comparison of both vehicles. The only close topic was comparing Eco boost to active GT. No stock GT included!! ugh.

The real question: Is the stock GT quieter than the GT active on quiet mode?

 

[AZ_Ryan]

I could not find one comparison on YouTube between the stock GT exhaust and the GT active. I want the quietest mode due my neighborhood expectations. I need a side by side comparison of both vehicles. The only close topic was comparing Eco boost to active GT. No stock GT included!! ugh.

The real question: Is the stock GT quieter than the GT active on quiet mode?

No it is not.

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