celica st205 stock, stock exhaust of celica st205 Options

[psyxo69]

Now calling all celica st205 gtfour owners
I have my celica st205 gt four with the hks silent power exhaust. Now i want to make the car stock and take off the skirts and everything. From the time i bought the car it had the hks exhaust so i dont know how the stock celica st205 sounds or drives. I have the stock exhaust too as a spare so i am asking anyone of you that had the stock exhaust before changing it on his opinion on how it sounds. Does it sound louder on low or high revs? or is it silent like all the factory cars nowadays that we see in the roads. I mean can it pass without someone noticing it? or does it have a sweet rally sporty sound but not too loud?
Just wanting to make sure that i wont regret it when i take off the hks exhaust

[malecrod]

I hope this helps. I don't have hks exhaust. But i have 3" piping all the way through for my swap with Fujitsubo muffler. I too did not like the noise. I make long trips and use car daily, sometimes with wife and daughter with me. So reducing the noise became an obsession. This is what I did for mine:

1. Got a silencer for the tip of your muffler.
2. Dynamat the car entirely(best $300 spent). I took out all seats and body panels including the trunk and dynamat everything possible, including the inside of body sheet metals etc. Big difference!!! First you can hear your music much better and car feels more solid with little if any rattling and much much quieter at highway speeds. You can actually have a normal conversation and not have to feel like you are yelling.
The Dynamat l used is the: Xtreme Dynamat with the 9 sheets or 36 square feet. I needed 2 sets to cover everything.
Oh by the way, l have 2 resonators in my piping to curb the noise too. This just changed the harsh tone of the exhaust.
Hope you find this helpful. GL.