Looking for a way to enjoy the sound of the exhaust a little more. Sport mode is decent but would an active exhaust delete be even louder? From my understanding, sport mode doesn’t have the exhaust all the way open unless you put your foot in it. Anybody have experience with the difference between the two and can report on whether active exhaust delete is louder than sport?
FrozenInAlaska
Before I deleted the stock exhaust system entirely and went with a awe(love it btw,) I cold started the car and removed the fuse for the active exhaust to get an idea what an active exhaust delete would be like and drove around in varying conditions and of course the code popped up due to a “malfunction of the valves” and at mid/idle to my ears it was louder wide open was almost if not the same
Hope that helps
Hope that helps
I’ll put it like this here’s what I did.
Stock WBSP
then added BORLA ATAK with valves to retain the factory valves.
‘then purchased Z automotive ’inactive exhaust’ to delete the valves
Effectively I have Borla ATAK with valves wide open at all times thanks to the z automotive delete and then if I ever want to go back to valves, simply un plug the modules from z automotive. And they don’t throw a CEL.
To answer your question:
Sport mode is louder than normal, and has the potential to be as loud as an exhaust delete but only during wide open throttle. The delete gives you that sound at all times. The one thing to keep in mind is that a delete will make ‘auto‘ mode (when MDS is active) aka 4 cyl mode sound a little drony when the 4 cylinder mode kicks in. You can defeat that by either setting the transmission to sport or what I do is set my custom mode to all street settings with the transmission in sport.
That said, I totally love the idle with the valve delete and it’s not raspy, it sounds good!
Good luck
Stock WBSP
then added BORLA ATAK with valves to retain the factory valves.
‘then purchased Z automotive ’inactive exhaust’ to delete the valves
Effectively I have Borla ATAK with valves wide open at all times thanks to the z automotive delete and then if I ever want to go back to valves, simply un plug the modules from z automotive. And they don’t throw a CEL.
To answer your question:
Sport mode is louder than normal, and has the potential to be as loud as an exhaust delete but only during wide open throttle. The delete gives you that sound at all times. The one thing to keep in mind is that a delete will make ‘auto‘ mode (when MDS is active) aka 4 cyl mode sound a little drony when the 4 cylinder mode kicks in. You can defeat that by either setting the transmission to sport or what I do is set my custom mode to all street settings with the transmission in sport.
That said, I totally love the idle with the valve delete and it’s not raspy, it sounds good!
Good luck
It's really very easy:
1. Get under your car and remove the electronic actuator from passenger side.
2. Remove the spring from between the actuator and valve.
3. Tale a piece of wire and wire the valve in the exhaust open.
4. Reinstall the actuator.
5. Repeat for the drivers side.
This works with no code for 2019 and newer. It may also work for 2018 also, but I'm just not certain. Takes 15-20 minutes per side and the best part is it's free!
1. Get under your car and remove the electronic actuator from passenger side.
2. Remove the spring from between the actuator and valve.
3. Tale a piece of wire and wire the valve in the exhaust open.
4. Reinstall the actuator.
5. Repeat for the drivers side.
This works with no code for 2019 and newer. It may also work for 2018 also, but I'm just not certain. Takes 15-20 minutes per side and the best part is it's free!
Pretty sure wiring the actuator will cause a CEL on an R/T. I did the Z Automotive delete. Sounds great.
Any time you're moving below 3mph the valves are all the way open in all modes. So that won't change. Also, as mentioned WOT and also anything over 3100rpm they are 100% open.
I've messed around with my exhaust actuators and honestly there isn't much difference by keeping them open vs the stock programming. The only real thing I notice is they do a good job of getting rid of an annoying exhaust resonance/boom in the 2000-2500rpm(ish) range. Also, they do help a little with the MDS buzz/hum if you have MDS.
The TLDR is this isn't worth your time/money/effort. There isn't much difference.
I've messed around with my exhaust actuators and honestly there isn't much difference by keeping them open vs the stock programming. The only real thing I notice is they do a good job of getting rid of an annoying exhaust resonance/boom in the 2000-2500rpm(ish) range. Also, they do help a little with the MDS buzz/hum if you have MDS.
The TLDR is this isn't worth your time/money/effort. There isn't much difference.
Whichever mode the transmission is set to is how open the valves will be, that is unless you buy something like a dummy plug kit from Z automotive which makes the car think they're functioning. So yes, transmission setting is linked to exhaust valves.
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