Active Sound Design

GR1109LE said:

If I can hold off until warranty is gone, the day warranty expires UPS will be dropping off a lot of boxes. Seeing all these sick Supra's give a nasty itch to modify. I believe Adam LZ is in the 9s with stock motor, NUTS

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I stopped watching those videos. Cost to hp increase ratio is crazy.

jtsang25 said:

I stopped watching those videos. Cost to hp increase ratio is crazy.

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If I had to guess, he probably has maximum $5000 into the car. To see same response from my Audi I'd be in the $20,000 range

GR1109LE said:

If I had to guess, he probably has maximum $5000 into the car. To see same response from my Audi I'd be in the $20,000 range

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Exactly. That's why I cant watch. Its costs next to nothing for what you get. I'd be to tempted to just buy everything and lose warranty.

GR1109LE said:

Today I used Bimmercode to turn off active sound design among some other changes. The sound system is much clearer now and sounds amazing.

Problem I have now is, the exhaust note even in sport mode is very tame. What exhaust system have you guys used to compensate for the missing fake exhaust note?

I hope this is the right section, didnt know whether to go in exhaust section or audio.

Thank you

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Good Mo GR1109LE

Quick question, wouldnt it be better to add capacitors on those 2/8" woofers, to clear the speakers from some of these frequencies? This was done in the old days when you wanted to clear a 3 way speaker from base to use it strictly for mids and highs!
Thoughts?

Supr@Freak23 said:

Good Mo GR1109LE

Quick question, wouldnt it be better to add capacitors on those 2/8" woofers, to clear the speakers from some of these frequencies? This was done in the old days when you wanted to clear a 3 way speaker from base to use it strictly for mids and highs!
Thoughts?

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I run an aftermarket amp fed from the wires feeding the woofers and they do have a low pass on them. If I had to guess, it is crossing over around 120 Hz give or take as by 200-220 Hz when running sweeps, my amp would shut off if it was using the speaker signal for power on.

I don’t think it will help much by adding a cap to cross over lower. The issues I see are: factory amp cannot handle output over all channels, 4” in door need a high pass (or steeper one?), and road noise / resonance kills the mid bass.

2k20HTownMKV said:

Swapping just the downpipe for better sound may still be ok for him. Just changing the downpipe wont cause any sort of loss of warranty. It doesnt hurt his car even without a tune.

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People say this with certainty but it's very much going to come down to individual dealers and how hard you/they want to fight. It's extremely unlikely they'll be able to make a case that, say, swapping out your sound system caused your transmission to fail. It is much more likely they can make a case that says your downpipe caused your turbo to die. And if they refuse a claim, what are you going to do about it? Arbitration? Court? Suck it up and just pay?

The only really safe option, if you want your warranty, is doing nothing.

Now, specifically to this case, there won't be anything anywhere that says you "lost" the warranty, either. Installing something, even dropping an ECU flash in, doesn't *automatically* eliminate your warranty, and also likely doesn't void other aspects of your warranty, either (i.e. paint). Point being, though, it isn't like your title will say "WARRANTY VOID" if you put a downpipe in.

Thank you guys all for your inputs, been crazy busy at the shop and didnt look here.

Something weird happened today. I was pulling the car out of the shop and I heard the exhaust flap open and now exhaust was much louder. One of the things I did with bimmercode when I turned active sound off was set the car to start in sport mode. Now I start the car start driving, everthing(steering,trans, suspension) feels like sport mode but not exhaust (except today when I heard the flap open)

Could it be possible when I made it start in sport mode I picked the wrong option? There was 2 different sport selections if I remember correctly in bimmercode. When the flap opened today, right before I cycled the car in out of sport mode couple times with the button.

GR1109LE said:

Today I used Bimmercode to turn off active sound design among some other changes. The sound system is much clearer now and sounds amazing.

Problem I have now is, the exhaust note even in sport mode is very tame. What exhaust system have you guys used to compensate for the missing fake exhaust note?

I hope this is the right section, didnt know whether to go in exhaust section or audio.

Thank you

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I agree with you here. It’s so quiet with Active Sound turned off. I may be one if the few that will turn it back on.