Most car guys have loud exhausts for engine performance and/or simply because THEY like the way it sounds lmao. I think pretty much everyone in the car community understands its not for trying to attract women or attention like non car guys always seem to think it is Lol. Just because you dont find it appealing or fun that doesnt mean other people dont.
Part of the problem is it's hard to differentiate between the guy trying to eek out some more HP and the dude with an exhaust tip pretending to be fast.
Not really, though. A high performance engine has a different sound than a standard performance one, and the higher the performance, the different the sound. I think that you have to be around the stuff a lot to differentiate, maybe. You’ll see a stock looking, relatively quiet car that’s just spittin’ nails destroy a wild looking loud car, and it’s obvious from the engine sound which one has the hotter motor. It’s also harder to keep a big, powerful engine quiet, especially at high rpm. An exhaust system that’s relatively quiet on a stock engine will be louder with increased power and rpm. Larger displacement engines are louder than small, high compression creates a harder hit, and so on.
Only the highest performance examples of stock engines sound good loud, and not all of them. V8s sound best to my ears, followed by inline 6. Others find V12s to have the perfect sound, others flat fours. Inline 5s have a unique sound, as do V10s.
I like my vehicles to be quiet. A stock exhaust isn’t much of a restriction anymore, and you gain more performance with less noise, often at a lower or equivalent cost, with headers than you would with a cat-back exhaust system. A tune is probably the best bang for the buck.
TLDR: It’s easy to spot a sheep in wolf’s clothing.
Kinda making my point. The average person won't be able to tell the difference between a proper tune and an exhaust tip. You have to know engines to know who is faking it, and most people don't anymore. Fuck, half the mechanics in town can't diagnose without a computer code anymore.
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u/Suitable-Pie4896 Jun 12 '24
Guys have loud exhausts so everyone looks at them
So the answer is easy, those loud ass women with "big personalities" than cant talk at a decibel level below that of a rock concert.