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Old Aug 16, 2008 | 12:20 PM
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Since I decided to keep the car, I've started the mods. I put on the K&N kit last week and this week the exhaust will be done. I bought the Hooker Aero chambers and Gibson tips the same as Count has. I listened to the clips and they are awesome, however after some posts, I'm concerned about how loud it will be. I want to roar, but I don't want to be needing ear plugs in the car. To anyone else who has this or had it. How loud is it really?

Also has anyone had trouble with the factory radios playing MP3s? Mine has lots of problems, and will probably be going back to the dealer next week.

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Old Aug 16, 2008 | 03:42 PM
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MP3 on CD. It worked great the first few times I used, it but now it won't read disks with MP3s on them. I tested the discs in other devices and they worked fine.

On the exhaust screw it, I going all they way to hell with the noise
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Old Aug 16, 2008 | 05:55 PM
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i like that loud pipes save lives
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Old Aug 16, 2008 | 06:40 PM
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I had the hooker aero chambers on my 08 GXP, it was too loud, and I lost performance, so I went with Magnaflow cat back exhaust and wow what a difference
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My CD Changer would **** up but it was really cold outside 15 degree's and i pulled a disc out and it had condensation on it :-\. Now that i'm back in texas i haven't had a problem. If your cd player isn't playing certain mp3s you might want to find out which mp3's its not playing and then try to compair there bitrate details and make sure its not something it can't play. I haven't really run across anything that it can't play mp3 wise. 320kbps 190kbps 128kbps all work just fine.
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by williamGT
I had the hooker aero chambers on my 08 GXP, it was too loud, and I lost performance, so I went with Magnaflow cat back exhaust and wow what a difference
Your posts are the reason why I'm hesitating. The more I think about it, maybe I should just swap the mufflers and let the resonator on.


Originally Posted by Sint3k
My CD Changer would **** up but it was really cold outside 15 degree's and i pulled a disc out and it had condensation on it :-\. Now that i'm back in texas i haven't had a problem. If your cd player isn't playing certain mp3s you might want to find out which mp3's its not playing and then try to compair there bitrate details and make sure its not something it can't play. I haven't really run across anything that it can't play mp3 wise. 320kbps 190kbps 128kbps all work just fine.
The bit rate on all of my MP3s is 320. The last CD I tried nothing worked, and the first CD I made which did work, doesnt' work anymore either.
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Originally Posted by 06MCSS09Camaro
Your posts are the reason why I'm hesitating. The more I think about it, maybe I should just swap the mufflers and let the resonator on.




The bit rate on all of my MP3s is 320. The last CD I tried nothing worked, and the first CD I made which did work, doesnt' work anymore either.
Does regular cd's work ? and if they do is it a bought one or one you've burned. Burned CD would be *.wav files. Either way id say you woudn't have a problem proving to thge dealership that it wont play your mp3s if it clearly wont play anything anymore. I've hgad alot of weird problems out of my stereo. If i have my mp3 player hooked up and i turn my car off and my mp3 player is still playing and i turn the car back on it will be static for 30/60 seconds and clear up slowly.
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