mopar borla exhaust
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
This whole horrible sound when MDS kicks in personally scared me away from aftermarket exhaust world for the time being. I would love nothing more than to have a great sounding exhaust, but I don't want to dump cash into something I'll never use cause it drives me nuts! Guess it's CAI and programmer till they get this thing figured out.
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
I wonder if the sound in the cab they get rid of with the resonator is the same sound that you get when MDS turns on with other aftermarket exhausts. I remember hearing somewhere that the bad sound of the MDS is only heard inside the cab, and not outside of it. This is my first ram, so could somebody tell me if the 06 is the first year to have the resonator on the exhaust? If so, I would imagine the main purpose of it is to cover up the sound of the mds. Although I could be way off.
You can deffinately tell when the MDS kicks in on the newer rams. A friend of mine through some 40's on his and when the MDS kicks in it it takes it from a nice roar to crap both inside and outside of the truck it sucks. but you can tell.
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
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You can deffinately tell when the MDS kicks in on the newer rams. A friend of mine through some 40's on his and when the MDS kicks in it it takes it from a nice roar to crap both inside and outside of the truck it sucks. but you can tell.
I wonder if the sound in the cab they get rid of with the resonator is the same sound that you get when MDS turns on with other aftermarket exhausts. I remember hearing somewhere that the bad sound of the MDS is only heard inside the cab, and not outside of it. This is my first ram, so could somebody tell me if the 06 is the first year to have the resonator on the exhaust? If so, I would imagine the main purpose of it is to cover up the sound of the mds. Although I could be way off.
You can deffinately tell when the MDS kicks in on the newer rams. A friend of mine through some 40's on his and when the MDS kicks in it it takes it from a nice roar to crap both inside and outside of the truck it sucks. but you can tell.
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
I suppose I could always drive around town with overdrive off to prevent the mds from kicking in; that is if the mds doesn't sound too bad in the cab at 65-80, where I would leave OD on for better fuel economy.
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
you know what there should be is and MDS off switch like Fog Lights On switch and OD off Switches, then im sure that would increase the happy level of new dodge owners
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
Whenever the MDS kicks in is when your truck will sound like crap. I think that the MDS on thew new Rams disengages after you get up over 65 but I could be wrong on that. But look at it this way you have a big V8 HEMI with a big exhaust that you want to put on itthat will compliment the big engine which will make it sound great because everything is proportional to one another, But when the MDS kicks in it cuts you down from a big V8 to a lousy 4 cylinder which makes that whole rachio of engine vs exhaust completely unbalanced because now you may still have this big powerful exhaust but you dont have the engine to back it up. To be honest you would almost need like a ricers exhaust (which is crap to begin with) to make it sound right (not good) when your MDS kicks in but then when you need your full power of your hemi then it'll sound bad cause it'll be to much power for the ricer exhaust to handle to sound better. Either way you look at it its gonna sound like crap untill they find away to compensate the exhaust for the engine dropping 4 cyliners
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RE: mopar borla exhaust
which i dont think they can do, by keeping the exhaust quiet all around u cant tell a difference but those who want the big exhaust are screwed when mds kicks in.....
