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Looking for an exhaust that gets rid of drone

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#1 ·
23 GRC Circuit Edition. I’m looking to buy an exhaust to reduce my drone. Currently I have a stock downpipe, sxth element midpipe, and stock exhaust. Drone is very loud in lower rpm’s annd speeds. Any suggestions would be great. Leaning towards the AWE touring but am not locked in.
 
#2 ·
The back half isn't going to solve drone. Put a resonator in the midpipe. Someone here had good results with the Borla universal and maybe Vibrant.

I have 2 resonators in my system, one in the mid (Megan) and a second in the mid-back (Remark). It is quite loud valve open and will set off the wife's car alarm on cold start. Normal driving in the valve closed region is drone free and easily un-noticeable.
 
#5 ·
Out of curiosity, if you have the stock exhaust, would simply getting the center valve override (ability to manually control open/close) help a little with very little investment? I have a '25 and throwing it in ECO (valve close) cuts out a lot of drone at low speeds & red lights. (From my understanding the ECO mode & valve relation is not the same between 23/24 and 25)
 
#6 ·
Problem is that there is currently no standalone override that allows manual control of the valve.

There is the GRC Exhaust Buddy and HKS(?) valve eliminators that allow you to remove the valve actuator without triggering CEL. Of course you could then manually open or close the valve with some fabbed mechanical system, but that wouldn't be an on the fly adjustment.

The only exhaust I'm aware of that currently has electronic adjustment is the Fi valvetronic system.