These base level 5.7 R/Ts are just too dang quiet.
The wife drives the car most of the time. 5.7L, A8 with Super Track Pack. The car is well insulated like all new cars, so these cars make almost no engine noise unless you are really ON the throttle. I know that with each side supporting a catalytic converter, a muffler and a resonator, it was quite understandable that it would be quiet.
THANKS to the many threads here and youtube links to guide me to the decision to remove the mufflers, NOT the resonators. The theme I kept reading here and elsewhere was that on automatic cars, the MDS creates strange sounding exhaust pulses at part throttle and the more free flowing the exhaust, the more noticeable the odd noise was. The manual trans cars are free to delete either the mufflers or the resonators without encountering the strange exhaust noise, since they do not have the MDS feature.
The wife drives the car most of the time. 5.7L, A8 with Super Track Pack. The car is well insulated like all new cars, so these cars make almost no engine noise unless you are really ON the throttle. I know that with each side supporting a catalytic converter, a muffler and a resonator, it was quite understandable that it would be quiet.
THANKS to the many threads here and youtube links to guide me to the decision to remove the mufflers, NOT the resonators. The theme I kept reading here and elsewhere was that on automatic cars, the MDS creates strange sounding exhaust pulses at part throttle and the more free flowing the exhaust, the more noticeable the odd noise was. The manual trans cars are free to delete either the mufflers or the resonators without encountering the strange exhaust noise, since they do not have the MDS feature.