Letting the world know you

Meanwhile I'm getting pulled over multiple times for my loud exhaust because my muffler fell off and I don't have the money to fix it.

Then the cop pulling me over has to stop talking as a motorcycle drives by so loud he can't even hear himself.

That's because the law wasn't made because rich assholes, but because broken exhausts, wether by design or by negligence, are a god damn nuisance.
- And yet the people who's cars are loud by design are largely ignored because fuck the poor.
  "Hey I see your muffler is broken"
  "Yeah I don't have the money to fix it"
  "Well now you'll have even less money, here's your $150 ticket"
Maybe don't drive if you can't keep your vehicle road worthy.
- Yes you're right fuck poor people how dare they have bills to pay.
  Oh and btw my muffler only broke because I was delivering pizzas on shitty side streets. So maybe the problem is cities should maybe fix their roads?
- If the road can't handle you at your worst then it doesn't deserve you at your best.
- You are ether European or 10 years old you need a car to get the money to live and keep it road legal
Compared to straight pipe, you would have a short pipe. Being so much closer to the engine, you'd get more noise. Even straight pipe dampens the noise a bit.
In Germany its usually the fast cars that get pulled over for being too loud, my exhaust pipe on my old car was completely rusted through and I drove through a police check where they pull everyone over.
They didnt say anything regarding the exhaust.
I replaced it before the next inspection, because I would have never passed with it rusted through.
- at least in Germany there is an inspection...
- Probably they seen rusted car and understood that it's not your initention to be loud.
yeah but people actually love loud motorcyclist, right?
https://youtu.be/ylhsbfQTPDQ?si=WMg7tui56hDDTjp1

Just put a vuvuzela in the exhaust pipe.

Just remove all the exhaust manifold and let the gases just exit the engine without any noise filtering.
After about a couple of hours of driving, the owner will probably come back and ask for louder pipes.
- Pretty sure the owner would be dead
Or a fleshlight

Or conversely, having bass boosters so strong that it's questionable as to how you car hasn't fallen apart.

Nothing like hearing that bass followed by the trunk lid rattle on a 20 year old Pontiac.
- Literally turning you car into a maraca

This post is funny because it's true

The funny thing is the loudest exhaust possible is probably the cheapest as it's basically just a pipe with no features
- That's kinda what threw me off cause straight pipes are cheap and probably the loudest an exhaust you can get it just sounds like shit hence why most cars guys get simply weaker mufflers so basically if you just want a car to be loud straight pipes are the go to but if the car guy wants his car to sound good they get the expensive weak muffler otherwise they have to tune the engine for the sound it's self to sound good on a straight pipe sacrificing performance ironically from what I've been told the fastest cars on the road are actually silent only making noise when they get up to speed spuling up the turbos and making a loud booming backfire when downshifting
See, Im a car guy and this thought process bugs me. Now at a certain noise level or manner of behavior I do agree but if I can offer a counterpoint?
Every school holidays or long weekend around where I live the roads get absolutely clogged with caravan and boat owners just looking to escape. Be among nature or on the water and forget about their responsibilities for a few days and I just have to sit there and quietly sit in bumper to bumper traffic while my commute takes 3 times longer than normal so they can indulge themselves in their escapism. Every time I take my daughter for a walk along the waterfront theres some teenage girls doing a tiktok dance or some influencer with a photographer I have to walk around... sure I could be a dick and just plow through but I try not to fuck with people just trying to be happy.
So I put an aftermarket exhaust on my car so that for just a few minutes a day I can feel like my life isnt just a relentless crushing grind of work, parenthood and sleep. I can pull away from an intersection and for just a second, I can pretend that life is the "fast and the furious" not "monotony and the tedium". Like the people towing a caravan too big for their car up a hill and inconveniencing a bunch of people, I dont want attention I'm just more concerned with my happy than other peoples. But I'm not also a toolbag who floors a painfully loud shitbox around suburbia at 3am, there is a line.
- People doing TikToks or pulling their boats arent disrupting conversations in my own home nor scaring my pets. You may be escaping life for a few minutes a day but I, and many others have to live with your noise constantly throughout the day.
  Even though you only do it for a few minutes, there are many other people doing the same thing so it's nearly a few times an hour that I have to listen to it
- You really had me rooting for you until you turned to the dark side in the second paragraph lol.
  Maybe instead of a muffler you could just install a muffler sound simulator on your phone or something and listen to the sounds quietly while you drive?

It must be hard when your accomplishments are so little that no one notices you exist; i might be an obnoxious man child just to get people to notice me too.

It is. That's the only reason. It's not any other reason....
- I don’t body shame
Why so quick to judge people you don't know?

Even car guys will hate you.

but hey buddy, your mustang/challenger/Corvette is loud

Yeah, it's loud because it's a fucking sportscar, being loud is entirely in character and useful for the driver to hear out gear shifts on a twisty road.

In a truck? Just makes you look like a clown.

"to hear out gear shifts"
Buddy, if the engine noise inside the cabin and the emphasis on the tachometer isn't enough for you then maybe you should give up on twisty roads and sport cars.
- Hey man you try heel-toeing with thrash metal blasting in the background.
Tell me you're a jackass with a loud sports car without saying you're a jackass with a loud sports car.
But it's "entirely in character" so it's fine right? -_-
- Your fine may vary...
Idk it did help to hear wtf the motor was doing when I'm off road trying to modulate the throttle to get up an obstacle.
But... it got old. So I went quieter before I got rid of it. I'm keeping the 4R stock because it'll sound stupid (to me) with louder exhaust.
I don't mind loud exhaust if the motor sounds good and it isn't obnoxiously loud.
V8? Yes. V10? Sure. (Gas or diesel). If it's 4 or 6 cyl with manual trans? Yes.
One thing I can't stand is econoboxes with auto trans and high stall torque converters that are just always loud. It just sounds terrible to me. It doesn't sound like a sports car. It doesn't sound fast or powerful. It sounds like a poseur lol. Sorry I can't help it.
I have the active exhaust on my Vette open almost all the time and it doesn't help me with shifting. I just like it.
to hear out gear shifts
Can't you use manual if you want to change gears?