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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 06:49 PM
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I was changing my exhaust so while it was off I vigured id take a quick video. Sorry for the wind noise damn wind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovm80G9JkcQ
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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didnt hear the open dump much.. vids dont do justice though.. usually its more obvious on a dyno pull than a drive by vid
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 06:58 PM
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lol you can tell from the sound of the turbine as it spools down
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Ace83
didnt hear the open dump much.. vids dont do justice though.. usually its more obvious on a dyno pull than a drive by vid
i think he meant open downpipe. not open dump. sounds like mine.
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 07:02 PM
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the turbine sound yes i could hear.. what i was the expecting was the sudden loud dump sound when wg opens. not just good listening sound on vid clips lol
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 08:39 PM
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yes i meant open downpipe! lol woops
Old Mar 17, 2009 | 08:42 PM
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cant wait til summer open my ish up haha
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 01:35 PM
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oh crap my bad.. open downpipe ftw! no wonder its all turbo spool lol sounds like mine when a rock stripped my dp spipe clamp
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 02:16 PM
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Open downpipe is fun until the cops have divine intervention
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by enjoithis
yes i meant open downpipe! lol woops
lol, I was gonna say the same thing. I'm running an open dumptube, and my car sounds nothing like that.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 03:07 PM
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lmao it was my fault mixing it up bahahaha.. i kinda was sleep posting.. the title is clearly not about dump tube lol
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I drove around for about 3-4 months with open downpipe. Does sound very beastly like that. The exhaust fumes seep back into the cabin though, that's the only downside to it.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by rhythmnsmoke
I drove around for about 3-4 months with open downpipe. Does sound very beastly like that. The exhaust fumes seep back into the cabin though, that's the only downside to it.
It's incredible worse when you make a mistake like I did. I never set the ECU firewall grommet back in place so the hole was wide open, which just so happens to be right be the A/C fan. So thinking I was helping the problem I set the a/c to recirc, which made it even worse. It just pumped exhaust fume smell throughout the car.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 08:24 PM
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yeah, great sound though, but fumes = light headed and naseous.
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