AAM Short tails- resonated vs non resonated

Cove87

Alright. So I got the new resonated short tails on the car this weekend. Initial impressions:

- No noticeable change in overall tone/deepness/growl (good thing, I was afraid of losing that aggressive grunt)

- Noticeable reduction to interior droning (still drones, but MUCH more bearable, especially the dreaded hill climbs in cruising gears)
-Maybe a 30-45% reduction to interior droning
- Noticeable reduction in rasp/pinging
-Volume increase as sound opens up at 3000 RPM+ is MUCH smoother, no longer cringy
-I no longer feel as though I MUST shift before 3000 RPM out of consideration for the hearing of others

- LARGE reduction in WOT volume (followed my car while someone else drove it, did not make me feel like my chest wanted to burst)
-Still able to hear the car at a nice distance, but it won't make people swerve off the road if I stab the throttle from out of no where anymore
-If I had to TRY to quantify the volume change (50-60% quieter at WOT)
-Wife followed in her car with 6month old baby, baby didn't freak out once

- Cold starts are still very, very brutal. Not much change there.

- Seems to take some driving/small break-in for the resonators to fully mellow out and quiet down.. They seemed a bit loud still when I FIRST put them on the car, but after driving for 15 minutes or so, they began to get smoother/quieter. I did quite a bit of driving this weekend (200 miles or so) and that definitely made them quieter than when I first put them on (2 or 3 days ago).

All in all, very satisfied with my upgrade to the resonated short tails from non-resonated. Still need to take some new video, sound clips, but I've got a video of a cold start on my instagram (look up covey.little, can't link it as I'm at work ATM).

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cameronZ

Thank you for the detailed review! I'd love to hear a video when you get a chance. I've been considering doing the s line midpipe and resonated short tail combo with my art pipes like you have done. In my opinion it's the loudest and deepest combo I've seen on our cars.

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Cove87

Yea, I'll agree with that.. loudest and deepest sounding Z exhaust I've ever come across. With the resonated short tails, it's still very loud, but it's not like: OMFG, kick you in your chest, half-mile away but still sounds like it's right infront of you, gunshot in the dark of night loud anymore, lol.

People ask me all the time if my car is straight piped. I tell them "almost." I think if the car was truly 100% straight-piped, no resonators, no nothing, it would sound horrible. A raspy, pingy, ricey mess.

Going to try and stop slacking this weekend if the wife will give me the chance to get away from her and the baby to finally make a new video.

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Cove87

Alright, finally stopped BSing and took a new video.. but it was very windy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFr84AalVWi/

It's on my instagram, but it's set to public so you guys should be able to check it out. Main difference the decrease in volume.. Easier to tell in person, but it's slightly more bassy and a bit more of the growl and rasp is filtered out.

May try again on a day when it's not so windy.

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