Saturday, November 11, 2006

AeroTurbine Muffler for the C36

Production cars have very boring quiet exhaust systems. I reminisce the old days driving my little red MGB convertible and I could hear the exhaust note as I motor away along Hwy 1 - that's music to my ears!

High performance cars have distinctive exhaust sounds and listening to it is such pleasure. That is why I decided to enhance the sound of my C36.

I retained the original resonator so that it does not sound too loud. I just added an AeroTurbine muffler and a dual exhaust tips. The exhaust tips makes it look like a typical Euro car exhaust - except for the distinctive exhaust tone that sounds very low and very mellow.

The exhaust tone is a very low and very bassy rumble when accelerating slowly. When I accelerate quickly the low rumble changes quickly to a higher pitch note until rumble until it becomes quiet. It's kinda fun driving her around at low speed with a low bassy rumbling exhaust. When accelerating quickly, the exhaust tone is at a low-med. pitch as she picks up speed, the sound pitch become higher and blends with the ambient noise. At 80 mph she sound like a stock car, she's quiet. From 0 to 65 mph I can hear her rumble.

The performance increase of the AeroTurbine AR2525 on the C36 is not as as noticeable as the performance increase of the T100 with the AR3030XL. On the C36 the power is more refined and stable, it comes on stronger than the stock AMG muffler.

AMG already cranked up as much horsepower out of the 3.6 engine that the AeroTurbine doesen't seem to produce any more power. I'll find out more later how it runs at high speed when the alignment is corrected.

I can't wait to get all her issues resolved and she will become my daily driver.

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