Installed the Pypes Pype Bombs (black) a few days ago and it sounds fantastic. The best I can describe it is from idle up to about 2.5k RPMs it sounds like an old fox 5.0 with two-chamber flowmasters (I think that was the "American Thunder" but it's been a while). Above that it just starts to scream. It easily rivals my G8 with Doug Thorley tri-y's (no cats) and part# 16795 Magnaflow catback.
The quality of the black powdercoat left quite a bit to be desired had it been any more expensive but for the price I guess I didn't really expect much, mostly just slight nicks and dings that could have easily been from poor packaging during shipping meaning nothing was down to bare metal but one of them wasn't black inside. I ended up spraying a few coats of rattle can black with some clear over that and it looks pretty damn good now. I spent a good deal of time getting them aligned but I must have not tightened them enough as they have now shifted so I'll be taking it to a local exhaust shop for correction sometime this week as I really don't feel like crawling back under the damn thing for a while. After that I hope to get a vid posted but I doubt that will do it justice.
In summary:
-It has a throaty, VERY aggressive sound (read not raspy) and I'd honestly call it a louder Borla S-type.
-If you've heard a new 5.0 with true muffler deletes (i.e. SLP loudmouth) I would consider that a 10/10 for exhaust volume. The volume of the Pypes' exhaust note is more controlled with the resonators so I'd say 8.5/10 with the Borla S-type 7/10.
-Finish quality was above average with the jury still being out on overall quality, I'll update this once I have a shop with a damn lift have a crack at getting it aligned correctly.
It's about what I expected from an axle back in this price range.
EDIT -- Ended up adjusting the exhaust in my driveway myself. It only took me about 10 minutes and I didn't even jack up the car. Drone exists but mostly under load and around 2250 rpms. I'll just say that if you THINK that drone will bother you then this is definitely not for you. Compared to a catless G8 GT with long tubes and magnaflow catback with AFM enabled, it's about one notch below that in the drone department.
The quality of the black powdercoat left quite a bit to be desired had it been any more expensive but for the price I guess I didn't really expect much, mostly just slight nicks and dings that could have easily been from poor packaging during shipping meaning nothing was down to bare metal but one of them wasn't black inside. I ended up spraying a few coats of rattle can black with some clear over that and it looks pretty damn good now. I spent a good deal of time getting them aligned but I must have not tightened them enough as they have now shifted so I'll be taking it to a local exhaust shop for correction sometime this week as I really don't feel like crawling back under the damn thing for a while. After that I hope to get a vid posted but I doubt that will do it justice.
In summary:
-It has a throaty, VERY aggressive sound (read not raspy) and I'd honestly call it a louder Borla S-type.
-If you've heard a new 5.0 with true muffler deletes (i.e. SLP loudmouth) I would consider that a 10/10 for exhaust volume. The volume of the Pypes' exhaust note is more controlled with the resonators so I'd say 8.5/10 with the Borla S-type 7/10.
-Finish quality was above average with the jury still being out on overall quality, I'll update this once I have a shop with a damn lift have a crack at getting it aligned correctly.
It's about what I expected from an axle back in this price range.
EDIT -- Ended up adjusting the exhaust in my driveway myself. It only took me about 10 minutes and I didn't even jack up the car. Drone exists but mostly under load and around 2250 rpms. I'll just say that if you THINK that drone will bother you then this is definitely not for you. Compared to a catless G8 GT with long tubes and magnaflow catback with AFM enabled, it's about one notch below that in the drone department.
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