Turns out you don’t have to spend lots of money in order to make your car sound better.
This base Porsche 996 remains to this day a good sports car but the stock exhaust keeps the flat-six soundtrack to a lower level than most would want it.
Normally, you’d have to spend a significant amount of money towards an aftermarket exhaust to get the desired results but Matt Watson from CarWow has found a hack that not only makes his personal 996 sound better, it also costs just £200 ($246).
This exhaust trick basically mimics what Porsche did in their own sports exhaust systems for the 996, and involves adding a muffler bypass between the inlet and outlet tubes of the exhaust.
The results are simply impressive, with this Porsche 996 gaining a much throatier soundtrack in all occasions: from a cold start to a pass by, the unmistakable song of the flat six is louder and clearer than ever. Now, that’s value for your money.