Nicky Pass

I'm getting annoyed when my car shifts in to D5, at around 1500-2500 rpm, that drone noise is driving me crazy. Is there anything I can do????????????????

bioyuki

Get this:

http://solar.innercite.com/comptech/headertl.html

Its the quiet tip insert. Theres a thread going on about it over at the TL board.

bioyuki

Here is the thread: http://www.acura-tl.com/forum/showth...threadid=33077

eclipse23

I love that noise!!!!

Red Rider

I love the looks and the startup sound, but the droning does get on my nerves at times. Hammerman just did the silencers and spray painted the inserts and you can't see them. I'm gonna hear them tomorrow night and decide if they are for me. Maybe he'll post pics. He said the droning is gone.

JRock

WTF is a "header stud kit"? They're selling them now, whatever they are.

Also, did Comptech Headers always include a downpipe?

Damn $1250. The price has gone UP if anything. WTF.

Used to be $1000, then $1100, now $1250.

Crazy Bimmer

I bought the inserts and i installed them today... also painteed them black so you can see them..


Sounds real close to stock now..... its nice to have a break from the noise of the comptechs..
Plus its easy to take the quiet tips out if you wanted the noise back on some days.

Red Rider

Thanks for posting your impressions.

Nicky Pass

How do they go in?????????

mattg

Stay out of D5 then, and stop using so many fucking question marks man. I mean every time, your a punctuation butt pirate.

Bluto

I would consider some sound damping material before inserts. Keep the cabin quiet from exhaust, road & tire noise. Apply near exhaust and wheel wells. If it is still too noisy, go for the inserts.

http://www.dynamat.com/

http://www.cascadeaudio.com/prod/trunkkit.html

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

I agree.. I love that noise too!! Considering 80% of my drive is highway and I'm usually around the 2k - 2300 RPM area, that noise is all I hear. What's funny is that after a week of having them installed, I don't really even hear it anymore!! I have my radio on (not too loud in the morning) and I still don't hear it. Maybe I'm not as picky as others.... I also think that my intake is so quiet that when I read topics about people not getting it b/c it's loud, I laugh. That could be b/c my CL had a short ram which was SOOO much louder then the CAI....

JRock

Or just trade your Comptech for my stock exhaust.

Nicky Pass

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

Read my review on them

HERE

JRock

Okay so it's pointless to get the Comptechs and the silencers - you're back to stock sound.

If you're getting exhaust for "looks" you're better off with HKS - supposedly they're slightly quieter than the Comptechs and they look much cooler.

my2sense

i'll take that annoying comptech exhaust off your hands...

moomaster_99

Doesnt work....I have the same set up on my universal..you get the drone no matter what..it's called free flow.

H@mmerm@n

I prefer the looks of the Comptechs. The construction of the pipe looks thicker.

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

It sure does work. Makes my Comptechs sounds like the OEM exhaust except at WOT.

Crazy Bimmer

same here... they work great!!

BKsRedCls

Had the same complaint until I added the headers...
No more drone just more power!!!

JRock

So you spent $650 for pipes that look "thicker"? Oooooookay.

Crazy Bimmer

Will you stop being so cheap about everything!!! :P :P

H@mmerm@n

If you paid attention you would have noticed that my comment was in reference to the HKS tips vs the Comptech, not the factory exhaust.