Borla exhaust. Some doubts

[j.fro]

+1 on Topless' comments. I have the Borla, headers, and 100 cell cats on my autocross car. Everyone at events loves the sound. When the car had no cats, the sound was in excess of the 96 decibel level and I was warned by SCCA officials.
My wife hates the sound and rarely rides in the car. I was forced to get a 996 for everyday use.

[Mrleal]

Thanks guys

Now the worst part comes. Make a choice between sporty and beautiful sound at high speed or silent cruising. I was wondering if there is anything between stock and Borla. I saw a post where some owners where saying that Topspeed was a good combination of
silent cruising and louder sound at high acceleration.

For while I will keep the Borla even because I must be gaining some HPs. :dance:

[Topless]

Here is another choice... the Pedro PSE. It retains the stock wave cancellation to eliminate drone but just makes the car more aggressive sounding.

Make the Pedro Sport Exhaust

[cheetah]

I have a 02 S with a 3.4L swap. Relevant mods noise-wise would be a custom air intake, headers (removing two cats) and the Borla exhaust.

I rarely drive with the top up. (Why would I?) When I do, the whole car is louder than I would like for daily driving, but much of that it my suspension also.

Top down, the exhaust while loud when on it, is not bad at all during normal driving.

This might be the issue with many people regarding the Borla. I posted this a few years back on here somewhere: Borla changed their design of the mufflers at some point. My original set had smaller diameter mufflers and they had an annoying drone. A weld broke on that set, so they send me a new one. This "updated?" one came with much larger mufflers. It was night and day. Much quieter, no drone. I am really happy that I stuck with the Borla, after the replacement.

Maybe you can get the one on your car replaced with the updated one?

[Mrleal]

Originally Posted by cheetah

I have a 02 S with a 3.4L swap. Relevant mods noise-wise would be a custom air intake, headers (removing two cats) and the Borla exhaust.

I rarely drive with the top up. (Why would I?) When I do, the whole car is louder than I would like for daily driving, but much of that it my suspension also.

Top down, the exhaust while loud when on it, is not bad at all during normal driving.

This might be the issue with many people regarding the Borla. I posted this a few years back on here somewhere: Borla changed their design of the mufflers at some point. My original set had smaller diameter mufflers and they had an annoying drone. A weld broke on that set, so they send me a new one. This "updated?" one came with much larger mufflers. It was night and day. Much quieter, no drone. I am really happy that I stuck with the Borla, after the replacement.

Maybe you can get the one on your car replaced with the updated one?

Probably mine is the old one because muffler seems to have smaller diameter. Car came with it and probably I cannot replace it anymore. As I live in South America, maybe I could try to bring a brand new Borla from US. I am now checking the options I have.

[Mrleal]

Originally Posted by Topless

Here is another choice... the Pedro PSE. It retains the stock wave cancellation to eliminate drone but just makes the car more aggressive sounding.

Make the Pedro Sport Exhaust

I googled PSE and I found that it is a reworking on stock mufflers. I do not have the stock one anymore and I live down here in Brazil. I am traveling to US for Christmas. Do you know if I can buy a new PSE ?

Thanks

[Topless]

Originally Posted by Mrleal

I googled PSE and I found that it is a reworking on stock mufflers. I do not have the stock one anymore and I live down here in Brazil. I am traveling to US for Christmas. Do you know if I can buy a new PSE ?

Thanks

Stock exhaust in good condition is cheap and plentiful in the USA at many dismantlers. Doing the PSE mod to a stock setup is pretty simple really. If you asked Pedro he would probably do one for you and ship to Sao Paulo.