I don't need no stinkin' button for my sport muffler...

[72targa]

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/porsche-...oud-punch.html

[NorthernThrux]

Funny. My RS4 has a Sport button that does exactly this. It activates a solenoid that cuts off engine vacuum to a valve flap actuator on the muffler. One of the first things most RS4 owners do is remove the vacuum line and plug it. Hey presto ! Always in sport mode. Total cost ? The price of a couple of screws to plug the lines. The RS4 with its sonorous V8 is one of the best sounding cars in the world. To quote Jeremy Clarkson, "This is what it must sound like when God snores".

[boxster03]

hey its only 3k what a bargin for the poseur crowd

[Bullethead]

Recently had the opportunity to sample a new TTrs with every option. Was having so much fun I didn't even see if the sport exhaust had a button. Especially since I wasn't paying for it. There was much revelery in that familiar spine-tingling turbo'd 5-cyl wail.
Ditto the new SLS last month. No stinkin' button for the NASCAR sounds, just a honkin' big V8 that any Bubba could love.

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[Bill Simmeth]

Russ, you're just having too much fun dude.

[Troos]

I've always thought a sports exhaust button would be a terrific option. It would allow the 18 year old boy inside me to have fun and then I could act like an adult when I return to my neighborhood.
That being said, I'm never going to buy a new Porsche, so I won't be faced with that decision.

[JKH]

"Lake" pipes, also known as cut-outs, were exhaust pipes that, when their cover plates were removed, bypassed the muffler(s), dumping the exhaust gasses to the sides of the car, very near the engine. They were usually short extensions of the exhaust "header". When one ran a car for top speed at the dry lake (Muroc, Bonneville) the cut-out cover was removed to reduce back-pressure through the system, thus increasing power.

Read more: What are "lake pipes" in the lyric, "And she purrs like a kitten 'till the lake pipes roar" in the song Little Deuce Coupe by The Beach Boys

[Bullethead]

When I was little my dad had a '56 Ford Crown Vic that was hopped up... one of my favorite memories of the car was being allowed to pull an underdash lever that opened the exhaust cutouts. Cruising along, nice and cool... then dad nods yes, and glorious Y-block noize! Have a strong olefactory memory as well: the smell of lighting Phillip Morris Commanders (and later, Parliments) on the dash lighter.

No seat belts, no kiddy seat.