JohnnyC

I think that is the point - I don't think that the G8 is a true muscle car, and thus it should not have a muscle car exhaust.

I just don't think it would fit in on an otherwise refined sports sedan.

To each his own, I guess.

jpstax

Now your talking! Great sound! Most of the posted text comments say the same thing.

turbowhistle86

iTrader: (7)

I would want my G8 to sound alot like the Pace Car exhaust that is offered for the Vettes...although I'd like the see the look on my boss's face when I left work everyday if my car sounded like that CTS-V!!!

TriShield

Aussies build it and to them it's nothing but a red-blooding, quarter-mile smoking, tire-burning muscle car.

No different than our LT1 Impala SS or SRT8 Mopars here.

TriShield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3ebz0fvnQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9S0jUP1u4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnDhCdrj2sU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyZK5ZpCtk

Aussies build muscle cars that proudly wear the SS badge.

eddielb

ELECTRIC CUTOUTS, its what I run, my car is quiet as stock when cops are near and girls complain, and open headers with the flip of a switch

dgr00s

why make it obnoxious? you will just sound like you have more bark than bite, keep it mellow and let people get the snot slapped out of them by something and not realize what the hell just happened.

RaggedRides

iTrader: (8)

If you're proud....

.....Let 'er be loud!!!!

Camaro_94

iTrader: (5)

Funny thing is.. The G8 can whoop the crap out of alot of cars.. Not too many can run 13.5's from the factory. Its got a hell of a lot of "bark" for your average sports sedan. It could give pleanty of cars a run for their money.

agreed.

BaddillaK

iTrader: (13)

on my V I had a B&B 3" true dual, and it sound good, but I wish It would have been a little more aggressive sounding. I think a g8 needs a good deep exhaust, but defenitly not a lt's and offroad y with dumped bullets; good quality catback on some longtubes with highflow cats is what they need IMO

TriShield

http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...,1899540.story

"But it's no BMW 5-series. You will see this preposterous comparison here and there in the automotive press -- words to the effect of "Pontiac G8: Bargain 5-series?" See, this is why you must control your intake of mood elevators before writing car reviews.

Australians would find this comparison wildly laughable, and usually they laugh only when someone is being kicked in the groin. To Australians, Holden is exactly where Chevrolet is in the U.S. marketplace -- mass-market, mid-price, working-class performance. In overall refinement, material quality, sophistication and -- most keenly -- ride and handling, the G8 isn't even on the same island-continent as the 5-series.

This is a common mistake people make, and when I say people, I mean GM. I remember Vice Chairman Bob Lutz going around calling the last-generation Pontiac Grand Prix an American BMW. As we know now, the Grand Prix was a BMW fighter as pointy wooden sticks are nuclear missiles. To invite such comparisons is to court disappointment. It's actually a disservice to the lesser product."

0000000000

Why the hell not? Its a RWD Pontiac V8!

jpstax

LOL. I loved the way that guy with his dog turned and looked in disbelief.

jpstax

You can't be serious! 361 hp and 385 lb-ft of torque doesn't qualify as a muscle car? I suppose the 2009 G8 GXP with 402 hp doesn't qualify either?

ElkySS

iTrader: (6)

i believe something along the lines of a magnaflow would do pretty good on the g8

JohnnyC

I didn't say it wasn't fast - I said that I don't think it qualifies as a "muscle car". To me, muscle cars are rough around the edges, barely idle, everything inside shakes, breaks suck, poor handling, ect.

The G8 is just too smooth and refined for me to call it a muscle car. I guess it depends on your definition.

Camaro_94

iTrader: (5)

Hmm.. So the 4th gen F-Bodies and C5 & C6 Vettes arent muscle cars according to your standards??

JohnnyC

correct!

99-LS1-SS

This is how I feel too. Make them wonder what just happened.

mtmsick96

iTrader: (2)

i voted yes, but on the same note obnoxious would not be good. ive heard a couple of chargers with exhaust on them and they dont sound too bad at all, and the g8 is supposed to be the rival of the charger and the leader of the american family sedan. my final decision, if you can find a corsa for it, which would give it sick sound outside, yet keep it nice and quiet inside, why the hell not?