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I have literally had the talon running for 300 miles. When looking at my fuel feed line, I was approached by an elderly woman in my apartment parking lot. She informed me that my car was loud, and that she had reported me. I found the following letter stuck in my door upon my return from a cruise. I hope someone else finds this as comical as I do.


http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/...9512659972.jpg

Fvucking glasspacks?? Really?

Wade

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Be as respectful as possible of your neighbors, no hotrodding or engine revving if possible. Otherwise, better save for a quieter exhaust :D

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BWAHAHAHA!

That's too funny... especially since a turbo Sirius engine is not particularly loud, even sans exhaust.

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HAHA. Thats awesome, now when's the tune and where are the big numbers?

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Is this underground parking with units right above? If it's outside that is crazy, do you park at a nursing home? 2-stepping out of the parking lot?

That is a pretty funny note though, I hate getting blasted out of bed by glass packs!

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It's also possible to have a quiet car that makes lots of power. You should be able to have an inside-voice level conversation in and around the car except perhaps directly behind the vehicle. That is of course, unless it's making 800hp.

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If i got woken up a few times by some loud ass dsm i'd be mad too!

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Wade post some pics up of this hog.

I had a few whiny fucks complain about me "revving up my motor late at night" in the Evo once. I was troubleshooting and started and shut off the car 3 times, never once touching the gas pedal, all between the times of 6-7 PM. LOL! I live in an smaller apartment building (~12 units) with underground parking.

Some people just have to bitch.

Now get some pics up of this beast!

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I hate loud exhaust, I'd be pissed if someone was waking me up to.

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I had somewhat louder exhaust on all my cars and never got a complaint living in multiple apartment buildings. You guys must have hella loud cars.

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Or some super intolerable, complain-about-everything neighbors. Even with just a downpipe, I could barely hear my DSM idling inside my house 20 feet away. "blasted out of bed" by a super low pitched engine, that could easily be confused for a passing lorry, is a bit absurd.

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Please, 99% of all modded DSM's I've seen are loud, especially to someone that doesn't give a crap about cars. I'm embarrassed by how loud mine is and I'm very careful about even pulling out of my driveway to keep it as quiet as possible until I get around to putting another muffler on it. At an apartment, I'd be a little less concerned since apartments are always going to be loud and you get what you get. But you'll do the car community a great service by not being one of those jackasses who purposely try to piss people off with your car. Put yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.

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LOL, mine got louder after hollowing the cat and I can still have a conversation behind it at normal volume. Sure, you can hear it coming down the street, but if that's enough to get you out of bed, you're a light sleeper, and they make things called ear plugs and white noise machines that solve that problem.

People are dumb.

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^Your normal conversation level is probably most people yelling thru a megaphone!! lol


Just say:
http://www.gowherehiphop.com/wp-cont...oprah-umad.gif

Then tell them:
http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...UD-650x405.jpg

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I always had Apexi N1s on my DSMs. But i would always make sure that i didn't start her up late at night. I had one person complain but it was because i had Project2g over one day and he was revving or idling. The sound travels with the low rumbles. And the person just took me aside and asked if i could keep it down.
The problem is that Low Frequencies travel better than the higher frequencies. So the low bass of the exhaust is going to annoy the fuck out of people. If you can't keep your car quiet, put in the silencer.

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Is it me or is anyone else really turned on by this gif. "Ohhhhhhh prah."

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I used to not care about loud cars and stuff. But now that I have a baby, I get really annoyed if some jerk with a loud stereo or exhaust has to sit and rev their engine or crank their stereo when they come into the neighborhood late at night or very early in the morning. Especially if it wakes her up and she gets cranky from it. Those with kids will understand what I'm saying about wanting to keep it peaceful when the baby finally goes to sleep.

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Well the best part is that the car has literally been idling in and out of the lot, besides a quick blip of the throttle to get the car moving. It is an outside lot with the garages far away from the apartment. It sounds kind of like Mark's car, it has the same exhaust setup as his does I think. I am just waking up each day for work at 5:30 and definitely not outside trying to launch shop rags out of my exhaust. I don't care to be disturbed sometimes, so I try to be as polite as possible when I am working on the car in my garage, etc. I will be tuning the car *if nothing else breaks in a few days* hopefully Friday and we will see how it does. I want my pics to be followed by dyno charts and timeslips lol. I know I don't really have a season left, but it would be cool to cruise around tuned! That reminds me, where is everyone getting their e98?? I have just been using e85 for the time being.

Wade

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I get e100 from iowa. my buddies dad blends it down to e90 for his drag car. If I knew you needed some I could of had him save some for you. He gets it for free from some guy that owns a place in iowa that makes flex fuel.

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Free fuel!! Me wants some!!

Wade? Track is open this weekend, fun day on sat. and headache i mean sport compact day on sunday.

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You can only get E98 in a 55 gallon drum, or from someone that has one. That person would be Ron from RS motors since I gave mine to him. I think Shane might have some as well.

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Yes? I will attempt to go to a track day on the weekend, but it is going to be a pretty steep learning curve if the car makes it past the dyno session. It was fun last year so hopefully I can get a little seat time in the car before I have to try to manhandle it down the track. Goodheart, I will have to get ahold of Ron or Shane before Friday to see if this is an option.

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For reference, my Evo had 2x ~16" resonators and a bullet muffler. I was always told it was the quietest Evo around.

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If you guys saw the car you might understand a bit better :P

Haha, I'd probably be a pissed resident there too!

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We get it from his sig its a big turbo car, doesn't change some guy starting up a loud car at 530am.

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I totally agree Aaron. If that were the case I would own up to being a jackass and starting a loud car that early. That was not the case though. I have never started the car before 9:30 in the morning. If you aren't up by 9:30 in the morning..... Get up :wink:
Either way, the car will probably break at DB because its a dsm, and they wont have to worry about the noise until next season.

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Agreed on the 9:30 thing. I feel like a jackass when I start my car on mornings that I open, and my car's not even that loud. Once the sun's up, you won't catch me feeling bad at all, get your ass up and do work.

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I think that note is awesome. I'd save it and put it up in a garage once you get a house haha.

I'd like to see what this thing makes

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Here is another reason why not to use DSMs as Daily Drivers...

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lol, I totally agree with you on the 9:30am thing unless it was the weekend and I was trying to sleep in (hungover/still drunk).

Actually if u did that during the week, I'd have to thank you I'm not a big fan of sleeping in unless I need the rest. I think you are doing a public service if its only 9:30am.

DSMs don't break because they are DSMs it's usually the parts or the person working on it, so go double check everything and good luck.

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Just thought of another one


You know you own a dsm (we can include evo now) # 1502

When the sound your car makes is mistaken for the garbage truck



Or in this case maybe the other way around?

:fart2:

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^Sounds like you need to fix your car.

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I did, I sold it

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That's hilarious because I lived behind a dominos in bloomington off 169 and every other day the fricking garbage man would pick the garbage up at 3am in the morning making tons of noise so I say screw the old lady! Lets set up a get-together at your place mondale so we can all sit in your lot and rev our engines early in the morning, what are they gonna do? Send you another letter, hahahahah. I do normally coast through my neighborhood to keep noise down and it would be annoying to have a kid wake up but seriously an old lady? All she probably does is sit around and sleep, she's probably up before you are in the morning.

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No, but they could call the cops for noise violation or a nuisance ordinance or disturbing the peace if you did that. Real smart plan.

It's kind of like the old saying goes, "Don't shit where eat".

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Well they wont have to worry about it the rest of this year because yesterday I shot part of my 4th gear out of my Shep Stg. 4 trans. It lasted 27 hours after getting tuned haha. Time for a better trans setup.

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Ouch that really sucks to hear. Update your project thread with graphs please. iam sure you had fun well it lasted.

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It was literally the first time I was attempting to get into any sort of boost in 4th. Let go as soon as I hit the gas. I will have to make a thread to put graphs in. But to be fair, it was totally worth it haha. The car commands more respect now though, it will turn your ass around on the highway if your not ready for it.

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Kevin told me about this yesterday, text me your number again. My phone deleted all my contacts. You going auto?

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Yup. I think that I am going to switch over to the dark side. I am not going to shell out the cash for a dogbox when people are still managing to break them.