Exhaust Suggestions for 11 IS350 F sport
12-21-11, 10:55 PM
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12-30-11, 02:03 AM
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Lots of valuable information being discussed here. Thanks guys! 
I recently just purchased the F sport exhaust, but am hesitating to put it on because I kinda want to sell it and use the money on something else. The exhaust is still in original packaging .. let me know if you're interested
It's just hard to know how it really sounds unless you hear in person. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with my F sport intake, since I rarely go that high RPM =/
I recently just purchased the F sport exhaust, but am hesitating to put it on because I kinda want to sell it and use the money on something else. The exhaust is still in original packaging .. let me know if you're interested
It's just hard to know how it really sounds unless you hear in person. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with my F sport intake, since I rarely go that high RPM =/
02-02-12, 11:24 AM
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I've got PPE headers + F sport intake + F sport exhaust.
The thing I love about it is it can be a quiet as a mouse, or a loud as a lion, it all depends on how you are driving.
If you keep it under 3k rpm, which is a medium / slowish accelration (not bad for all the mass traffic in Houston) all you hear is the purr from the engine just like before I had any mods on it.
Although from 3-4k the exhaust gets LOUD (mind you this loudness is amplified by the PPE headers i would say by almost double) then from 4k->redline the intake + headers kick in and its like a very loud purring baby lion cuddle up with you.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Now just having the F sport exhaust and intake by themselves was a decent level of loud. It wasn't overpoweringly loud like it is now (love it now much more though, louder the better imo). You got a good low base tone from 3-4k then the spatter/putter of the intake above that.
People have made the comment to me that my car sounds like a Yamaha R1 mixed with a Nascar.
The thing I love about it is it can be a quiet as a mouse, or a loud as a lion, it all depends on how you are driving.
If you keep it under 3k rpm, which is a medium / slowish accelration (not bad for all the mass traffic in Houston) all you hear is the purr from the engine just like before I had any mods on it.
Although from 3-4k the exhaust gets LOUD (mind you this loudness is amplified by the PPE headers i would say by almost double) then from 4k->redline the intake + headers kick in and its like a very loud purring baby lion cuddle up with you.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Now just having the F sport exhaust and intake by themselves was a decent level of loud. It wasn't overpoweringly loud like it is now (love it now much more though, louder the better imo). You got a good low base tone from 3-4k then the spatter/putter of the intake above that.
People have made the comment to me that my car sounds like a Yamaha R1 mixed with a Nascar.
02-02-12, 11:09 PM
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I've got PPE headers + F sport intake + F sport exhaust.
The thing I love about it is it can be a quiet as a mouse, or a loud as a lion, it all depends on how you are driving.
If you keep it under 3k rpm, which is a medium / slowish accelration (not bad for all the mass traffic in Houston) all you hear is the purr from the engine just like before I had any mods on it.
Although from 3-4k the exhaust gets LOUD (mind you this loudness is amplified by the PPE headers i would say by almost double) then from 4k->redline the intake + headers kick in and its like a very loud purring baby lion cuddle up with you.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Now just having the F sport exhaust and intake by themselves was a decent level of loud. It wasn't overpoweringly loud like it is now (love it now much more though, louder the better imo). You got a good low base tone from 3-4k then the spatter/putter of the intake above that.
People have made the comment to me that my car sounds like a Yamaha R1 mixed with a Nascar.
The thing I love about it is it can be a quiet as a mouse, or a loud as a lion, it all depends on how you are driving.
If you keep it under 3k rpm, which is a medium / slowish accelration (not bad for all the mass traffic in Houston) all you hear is the purr from the engine just like before I had any mods on it.
Although from 3-4k the exhaust gets LOUD (mind you this loudness is amplified by the PPE headers i would say by almost double) then from 4k->redline the intake + headers kick in and its like a very loud purring baby lion cuddle up with you.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Now just having the F sport exhaust and intake by themselves was a decent level of loud. It wasn't overpoweringly loud like it is now (love it now much more though, louder the better imo). You got a good low base tone from 3-4k then the spatter/putter of the intake above that.
People have made the comment to me that my car sounds like a Yamaha R1 mixed with a Nascar.
02-05-12, 03:50 PM
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Videos - Done with moonroof open
1: Through a kinda of tunnel with the top open (who knows) It also scared the shat outta the person in front of me lolol they hit the breaks and i had to slow down before i wanted to.
http://youtu.be/pJA1D2qn8-g
2: low/medium accelration
http://youtu.be/gpqg3OqG5QM
I did these just spur of the moment driving around with my android phone.
I'll get some better ones done for ya too.
1: Through a kinda of tunnel with the top open (who knows) It also scared the shat outta the person in front of me lolol they hit the breaks and i had to slow down before i wanted to.
http://youtu.be/pJA1D2qn8-g
2: low/medium accelration
http://youtu.be/gpqg3OqG5QM
I did these just spur of the moment driving around with my android phone.
I'll get some better ones done for ya too.
02-05-12, 05:01 PM
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Lots of valuable information being discussed here. Thanks guys!
I recently just purchased the F sport exhaust, but am hesitating to put it on because I kinda want to sell it and use the money on something else. The exhaust is still in original packaging .. let me know if you're interested
It's just hard to know how it really sounds unless you hear in person. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with my F sport intake, since I rarely go that high RPM =/
I recently just purchased the F sport exhaust, but am hesitating to put it on because I kinda want to sell it and use the money on something else. The exhaust is still in original packaging .. let me know if you're interested
It's just hard to know how it really sounds unless you hear in person. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with my F sport intake, since I rarely go that high RPM =/
If you onticed in the 2nd video above from like 3-4k you hear the exhaust mainly, then the headers/intake start to rasp over 4k
02-06-12, 02:47 PM
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Awesome setup, sounds good ! Convinced me that much more to get the F Sport exhaust ! Got any vids outta cabin with some lite reving,, maybe even a fly by ? post them up bro ! thanks !
02-08-12, 09:34 AM
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F-Sport Exhaust install in 5 days.....already have F-Sport Intake. Thanks for the vids HOAC. I won't have the headers but imagine the sound will be similar if not less, which is fine with me. Thanks HOAC. Finally a video without music playing or wind noise. Will report back after install and maybe I will try my hand at a vid.
02-08-12, 09:37 AM
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F-Sport Exhaust install in 5 days.....already have F-Sport Intake. Thanks for the vids HOAC. I won't have the headers but imagine the sound will be similar if not less, which is fine with me. Thanks HOAC. Finally a video without music playing or wind noise. Will report back after install and maybe I will try my hand at a vid.
Best mod so far that I have done to my car.
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