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Originally Posted by 2021nightshade4x4
Right.
Good sounding ones are either a mellow I-6 or revvy boxer 6, or sound of the engine is completely masked by turbo or the exhaust creates such a cacophony that tone becomes secondary to volume.
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Funny you mention that. I have a BMW M235 with a M Performance exhaust and downpipe with a much smaller catalytic converter. My wife asks why I can have an exhaust on my car and her not have one on her 4runner. It's hard to explain to a non-car person why an I6 single turbo motors can sound glorious without drone or excessive cabin noise. So many factors to consider like the OEM electronic valve in the exhaust, the naturally muffling of the exhaust by the turbo, the I6 firing order, BMW's use of a ton of insulating materials, a muffler that doesn't sit under the cabin which then turns the cabin into an exhaust drone amplifier. She thinks I'm just making excuses.
As the previous owner of two modded Nissan and Infiniti V6 cars, I learned that you can't make a V6 sound good.
The TRD exhaust sounds very much like a 1990s/early 2000s GM 3800 series V6 with an exhaust. It's terrible. It would probably sound quite a bit better and drone less if Toyota would use a 7 to 8 speed auto. The long gearing of the 4runner's 5 speed makes the exhaust drone way more.