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Old 05-23-2018, 08:43 PM   #1
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I understand they are louder, but drone. That is from every, user review I have read. The drone does not exactly make them not sound good, just makes them annoying on long drive. I think the fadspeed has a balance pipe to help with the drone.
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Old 05-24-2018, 04:13 PM   #2
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This explains why:

You want one big muffler:


"Porsche Boxster Story" by Paul Frere, page 56.

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Old 05-25-2018, 04:35 PM   #3
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The Borla was on my 2004 when I bought it. Loved the exhaust note, couldn’t live with the very bad drone. I replaced it with the FVD Brombacher ‘sound version’ and have never looked back.

The Borla is very well constructed using quality materials, but it needs a balance pipe at the least. You can find my posts regarding the Borla and the FVD via the search.
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The Borla was on my 2004 when I bought it. Loved the exhaust note, couldn’t live with the very bad drone. I replaced it with the FVD Brombacher ‘sound version’ and have never looked back.

The Borla is very well constructed using quality materials, but it needs a balance pipe at the least. You can find my posts regarding the Borla and the FVD via the search.
I have a used SpeedArt 'sound version' (same manufacturer as the FVD) that I removed from my 987 CS for sale for $1,000 plus shipping from So.Cal.

Also will be offering as well other goodies like a recently rebuilt set of KW-V3's coilovers, OS Gicken LSD, IPD plenum with the GT3 throttle body and a couple of other thinks that cannot remember right now
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