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)
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”
A broken muffler sounds A LOT worse than a purposely thought out muffler delete
Yes yes, we’re all aware that something that inconveniences you for all of 5 seconds is worse than someone living at an income low enough to not allow them to fix a non essential part of their only source of transportation.
Or you can just choose to not use car.
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.
