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      12-04-2013, 06:20 PM   #45
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at lower revs it's easily 15-20% louder than the Megan. At higher revs and at highway cruise the Megan is louder. A friend of mine (kerrit above) has the Megan on his E90 M3.

Do you have a test pipe?

Sound clip (CNT exhaust with test pipe) very aggressive and loud with a test pipe.
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      12-04-2013, 06:21 PM   #46
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Do you have a test pipe?


Negative..just standard rear section.
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      12-05-2013, 10:39 AM   #47
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I heard the exhaust idling on UGADawgFan's car. It's very rumbly and loud under 3000 rpms. I have the megan and it's completely opposite, more mellow and hardly any drone, and sounds a bit more exotic and louder at high rpms.

For a DD I wouldn't go with the CNT unless you really like the noise.
I don't really want a real loud noise. I hate a lot of drone. I guess I will just have to wait a month or so till they have Megan in stock again.

I will go ahead and install the test pipes and tune next week.
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I don't really want a real loud noise. I hate a lot of drone. I guess I will just have to wait a month or so till they have Megan in stock again.

I will go ahead and install the test pipes and tune next week.
Hey, just to add to this collection of impressions, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to stand the exhaust for the first 2 weeks because of its loudness to be completely honest. A month passed by and now I adore the sound that it produces. I think it's a perfect loudness-wise (wish it was louder in the higher rev). The drone is more specifically from 1800-2200 RPM. It's a very narrow range of rev that drones. I can understand DCT-cars with their cruising RPM around 2k may have issue, but 6-speed, you learn to cruise above that RPM and it's a total joy.

I can't praise enough of these pipes. Also, anyone having fitment issue, should try loosing the pipe where it connects to x-pipe and just rotate. I didn't have to use blow-torch to modify anything.

Either way (Megan or CNT) should do the trick as I'm all for inexpensive exhaust pipes, but Megans seem to have more fitment issue that requires bending the pipes - which I dread.

Good luck.
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      12-11-2013, 07:32 PM   #49
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Hey, just to add to this collection of impressions, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to stand the exhaust for the first 2 weeks because of its loudness to be completely honest. A month passed by and now I adore the sound that it produces. I think it's a perfect loudness-wise (wish it was louder in the higher rev). The drone is more specifically from 1800-2200 RPM. It's a very narrow range of rev that drones. I can understand DCT-cars with their cruising RPM around 2k may have issue, but 6-speed, you learn to cruise above that RPM and it's a total joy.

I can't praise enough of these pipes. Also, anyone having fitment issue, should try loosing the pipe where it connects to x-pipe and just rotate. I didn't have to use blow-torch to modify anything.

Either way (Megan or CNT) should do the trick as I'm all for inexpensive exhaust pipes, but Megans seem to have more fitment issue that requires bending the pipes - which I dread.

Good luck.
Well, I have a DCT. I am going to wait for a Megan next year or just not both with a new exhaust. Constant drone and a loud exhaust is not my idea of fun.
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Well, I have a DCT. I am going to wait for a Megan next year or just not both with a new exhaust. Constant drone and a loud exhaust is not my idea of fun.
Can't say it's a quiet exhaust, just livable for me once I got used to it. Hope you find the exhaust that fits your taste.
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One mans liveable might not be anothers. I am leaning towards waiting for more Megan SS to come out next year.
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