has anyone experienced an exhaust tone difference after programming thier 5.4??

I noticed that the hypertech I have installed changed the tone with the 91 octane tune is this bad or is this normal with every tuner?

 

Yep its normal.. I've noticed the same..

 

I just insalled mine a couple days ago and have a noticed a difference as well, for the better I think. I have a flowmaster exhuast and before I installed the edge, you could hear a pretty load drone at lower rpm's and it was a little annoying....But its gone now!!!

 

Yes and I love it. It sounds alot deeper than before I put the Edge on. It sounds meaner!

 

The tuners adjust the timing significantly. This makes a big difference in the sound of the engine as it fires, thus exhaust has to sound different.

 

Im about to recieve mine, if this is the case that makes me want it more

 

Yes it changes the exhaust sound. Even with stock exhaust you will hear a difference. I installed my Edge with the stock exhaust and then installed my Flowmaster. It was night and day difference. You will like the sound!

 

I like the sound I just wnted to make sure I hadn't done anything wrong and my wife even prefers the sound with the tune to it stock tuned, and we've got side dumps with a flowmaster 50 series




now if only i could get her to stop listening to those crappy "boybands"...

 

I know this is an old thread, but I noticed when changing from my performance tune to street tune my exhaust tone changed, so I did a search and found this old thread, the performance tune throughout the entire RPM range is a lot louder from idle to WOT... got it back on street tune and just seems too quiet now, I have it on street tune vs the performance to see how gas mileage is affected. When I am on the performance tune my gas mileage seems to go down rather quickly, but I think its mostly due to me being rather aggressive with the gas pedal...

 

I'm glad you used the search feature, I have learned a lot in 3 years I was a total newbie to the forum and modular motors when this was originally posted

 

Eventually tho, when I get my truck tuned, if I get an economy tune... I don't want my truck to get quieter. If anything stay the same or get louder.