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During Covid, we in the great white north we have had a massive issue with stunt driving and street racing. It seems like other communities have had as well. We live close to a main traffic artery so get the privilege of listening until the wee hours of the morning.

Saturday, Mrs JP and I were out for a walk and a BMW drove past - went up the road aways and turned around and drove back. The driver was most definitely not speeding but man was his car loud! There were definitely pipes existing the rear but to my ears it was louder than even straight pipes. Hence my question - is that possible? I have heard of tuned cans/ exhausts etc. Can they be tuned to be louder than they would be naturally?

(note - not interested in doing it, nor especially interested in just bashing those who have such vehicles (I do enough of that already) just interested in the mechanics of it all.)

Thoughts?
 
You're describing just about every neighborhood in the USA too, sadly.

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golly sure wish more people had one! people are so cool when they show off and make others miserable!


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Possibly a catalytic converter theft? Prius' are big for that around here.
 
Around here (Memphis area) it has gotten to record levels of stupid with wreck less driving and down right stupidity behind the wheel. I have noticed that most of the time, it appears that the car will have a (drive out tag) on it. I hesitate to call it a temporary tag due to the fact that I barely even see permanent plates with renewed registration anymore around here. If they do something stupid though that ends in an accident or fatality, don't count on the wreck less driver to remain at the scene.
 
Around here we have little drifter cars that have "f*rt-can" exhausts, but the most annoying trend is in cars (usually low riders and / or cars with ridiculously large wheels) that have stereos that seem to be nothing but bone-rattling bass. When they are next to you at a stop light you can't even hear yourself think.
 
Thanks for the replies - I know that back in the day they had cut out exhausts - hadn't realized they were still a thing.

I know I am rapidly turning into an old f*rt but my heavens.... Don't get me wrong I appreciate a rorty exhaust as much as the next guy but how these guys don't walk around with perpetual headaches I don't know. I recall years ago I test drove a car with a fa*t can exhaust (I was interested in that particular model not that particular car - there was so much wrong with it) But, the only time I could get away from the sound was on the highway - in town, my head was pounding by the time I got the car back to the dealer.

Certainly loud pipes don't make their um <whatsit> any bigger. I suppose some should tell them. :LOL:

Have a great day all
 
It got even crazier around here yesterday. My fiancee was driving to go get groceries and a truck pulled up next to her driving slowly and when she looked over he was half hanging out of the window pleasuring himself while staring at her. Pants down and all. She got behind him and got a license plate pic, etc... Utter insanity
 
anarchy99 said:
It got even crazier around here yesterday. <snip>
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Had something similar happen a couple of years ago. I was driving home one night from a NAMI Board meeting and, while in Tijeras Canyon, I noticed an older Oldsmobile "tuna boat" car in front of me that was weaving all over the road. I suspected a DWI so I called the DWI report number on my iPhone and reported the guy. I stayed with him (at a distance) until I was sure the State Police had him pulled over. The dispatcher asked if I could meet on of the troopers at the next exit to give a statement for their report I guess.

Anyway, as I was there talking to the trooper, another trooper who had been involved in the pull over, arrived and, when I asked if the gay was drunk, he sort of chuckled and said well, not exactly. He was just "distracted". Seems his girlfriend was in the car with him and, well, I'll just leave it at that...
 
Between the raspy tin-can exhausts and booming bass to rattle every nut 'n bolt loose, we'll have a generation of deaf folks soon. As for the nutjob anarchy's betrothed encountered, I swear the extended "stay home" of the epidemic has sent some of the less well adjusted among us into the depths of depravity!

I keep thinkin' a really well directed, strong output EMP device would be a desirable thing to have... :devilish:
 
We have the same thing here,Sometimes at (about 5AM,& late evening)
you can hear the really loud bass of a passing vehicle.This is in a residential area.
The other (sad) thing I've been reading/hearing about is people not wearing
their seat belts,& getting ejected out of their vehicles in a crash.We've lost WAY too
many young people this way,some still in high school.
 
I totally hate the rolling boom box machines - not because I dislike loud music, and not because I have a dislike of hip-hop. They just flat out sound like crap - there is usually ONE note that resonates way louder than anything else playing and the whole car/truck/van/whatever is rattling like its about to fall apart. It isn't a vehicle for someone who likes music. If it actually sounded like a concert coming down the street instead of just a muddled mess I'd be impresssed.
 
Can't beat a set of glasspacks or "Smitty's" on a Ford V8 - or maybe any V8, but those blatty extra-loud exhausts even on BMWs around here, sound terrible. A Cobra with side exhausts is so loud I think the drivers would go deaf after a few miles. I live close to the Merritt Parkway and when motorcycles in a pack go by, the sound is deafening. Enforcement? Fuhgeddaboutit.
 
A few months ago I got a db meter to quantify the sound level of a "neighbor's" car sound system two doors away. They would open all the Blazer's doors and crank up the volume. Levels of 80~81 DB. The home between the rolling boombox and the hovel is owned by a woman who works night shift in ICU at the VA hospital and tries to sleep during the day as the mental four-year-olds are blaring their rap-cr*p: "{euphemism} the po-leece..." etc. The cops didn't make a difference when they'd been called, the morons would just wait a few minutes after the visits and fire it up again. They have young, pre-school kids in that house, apparently *someone* must have involved child services recently as the noise has finally abated.
 
As a kid the loud exhaust of the Abarth system on a TR was good. The just plain loud of a the Chevys and fords of the friends not so much. I think I'm jealous when I hear the loud bass. I much prefer the "real music." Wouldn't the 1812 overture sound great on one of those?
 
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