i have a friend, nice guy, ex-marine but kinda an idiot when it come to his truck. he has an absolutelly huge suburban, biggest i've seen for a while, and he brags constantlly about his truck and how badassed it is. he's running 44 " tires and has a built bigblock motor getting probabally like 7mpg. maybe it's a froidian thing, i don't know...
but he also brags about how loud his truck is. he had custom work done to it and 4'' exhaust pipes with resonating tips blah blah , i stopped listening. and i haven't had the heart to tell the guy that it makes so much noise that he'll draw anyone with a rifle in a mile+(outside of the city anyway) radious to be waiting in ambush by the time he nears their position. and actully the truck is far to big and cumbersome to be worth a shit on any trails here in the heavily wooded forests of western Va. it'd be pretty badassed in a snow covered field, i guess, but that's about it. the damn thing even moreso than a comoflaged vechicle, loudly screems look at me, look at me, shoot this way!...
after reading "lost and found" i'm thinking about something new for my BOV. on of the main characters has an atv he custom fitted a second exhaust onto and he hen ran it at night wearing NVGs. well i don't plan to go quite that far although it is a good idea in conjunction with blackout lights. but seeing as my toyota is in need of an exhaust job anyway(the truck is 22 yers old but only has 122k miles and apparentelly a 22re should ruun for near 300k, but we use so much salt on the roads here in va that vechicles generally had uberbad rust issues) i may look into having my exhaust guy, add a second muffler to the exhaust system, i curentelly have headers, and a single half rusted out muffler and the pipe has rusted off behind the muffler, and my truck still is fairly quiet, but i think i now want to be able to run silent...