• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    The problem is that loud pipes are CHEAP.

    Literally straight-piping your car is one of the cheapest mods.

    You actually have to pay more money if you want more performance and for it to be (relatively) quiet. That’s one of the reasons loud vehicles are so common because and best solution for more performance is also the cheapest.

    (It is more complicated than that, but this isn’t the car community to where the nuances matter)

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          There’s a mechanic advice page but not many have asked for advice. This is a shameless plug bc somehow I ended up being a part of that place and would love to see it active

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        No and with how most of the users lean, I have a hard time believing a car enthusiast community wouldn’t be brigaded 24/7

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          Good point, we do have mechanic-advice now and just rolled into the shop though

          I can’t believe that’s the predominant view on this platform but have heard a lot

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        Lemmy is basically white programmers posting Linux memes and how much they hate cars. There’s no diversity here

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        None that are really worth visiting. Cars is one. I think there’s a classic car one as well but there are a handful of new posts there every week which makes it mostly useless. Such a shame since Reddit’s car subs (and there were quite a few of them) were quite well trafficked.

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          There was even a sub for the Suzuki Samurai on reddit that got decent traffic. No way I could start one here.

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            The Subaru subs (more than one, in fact) got decent traffic. The car community on Lemmy gets less traffic than just one /WRX sub got on Reddit.

            I miss arguing with my fellow car nerds!

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            In Australia its called Suzuki Jimny and its a dope car. Ive never owned one but I wish I did.

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      Yup. When my exhaust fell off, I replaced it with straight pipe because it was the cheapest option. I also don’t rev my engine through neighborhoods, so no body cares. I can’t tell much of a noise difference in or out. I think the turbocharger did most of the damping.

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        In a lot of places a turbo is considered a muffler or sound damping device which allows for exhausts to be straight piped after the turbo legally.

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          For a short time I worked in a factory that made school busses. They used big diesel engines and not a single one of them had a muffler. The SCR and the turbo made them plenty quiet.

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        All my cars are straight-piped. They still aren’t that particularly loud.