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    #46
    Originally posted by Cronenberged View Post
    Look, until you drive with a Dixis Sec 3 you’ll never know pure joy and love of ours cars. My favorite is the cold start in the morning, the exhaust has a nice growl, drone 3k and below is terrible, after that it mellows and is hardly noticeable.

    Set up; Euro headers/cats, OEM Sec 2, Dixis.
    Very confused - are Dixis's bespoke or being made out of someone's basement? I can't find a site or any info for them. Send info. Thanks
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      #47
      Originally posted by simplem3 View Post

      Very confused - are Dixis's bespoke or being made out of someone's basement? I can't find a site or any info for them. Send info. Thanks
      They were made from 06-09 in Japan.

      I'm working on remaking them using my own Dixis as the jig.

      Stay tuned.
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        #48
        My euro/catted fabspeed/resonated x and El Diablo was better sounding but it droned. Then I added a Karb and moved to SS sport. Perfection


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          #49
          online videos don't always accurate sound, but I'm surprised how bad the sunbeam from the slideways video sounds. I'd seen other sunbeam videos that sound great from the outside, but that was always in a racetrack setting at high rpm.

          Originally posted by simplem3 View Post
          I’m currently running:
          - euro headers
          - euro catted sec 1
          - stock sec 2
          - Valvetronic section 3

          All I hear is rasp. Rasp at its finest. I hate rasp! If I ever sell my E46 it’ll be because of my hate of the rasp. 😂

          I just ordered Supersprint Resonated sec 2 x-pipe to see how that goes. I saw in an older thread someone saying that a resonated section 2 will eliminate or atleast significantly reduce rasp.🤞🏽
          I have the resonated sec 2 x pipe, with SS Sport, and the old CPI rasp terminator on stock headers. no rasp. I haven't heard the car from the outside, but I absolutely hated the rasp and I almost sold the car because of it.

          I'm tempted to try the dual 2.5'' resonated supersprint sec2, but I'm so content with the way the car sounds I don't even care if it's costing me 5hp.

          I'm also convinced that it's the twin piping of the E46 that makes the S54 sound shitty in stock form. EVERY SINGLE S54 SWAP VIDEO SOUNDS GREAT. why is that? Hell, even the bimmerworld "race" exhaust sounds great compared to stock, and I think it may be because it's a single pipe. The supersprint X pipe effectively does the same thing, if only for a shorter run.

          I'd love to try making a single 3.5'' exhaust stuffed with resonators into a street muffler and quad tips. I think that'd be the best sounding and lightest design at least.
          Last edited by tnord; 01-25-2026, 04:16 PM.

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            #50
            Originally posted by Sharocks View Post

            They were made from 06-09 in Japan.

            I'm working on remaking them using my own Dixis as the jig.

            Stay tuned.
            How loud would it be over the SS Sport bro?

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              #51
              Originally posted by Sharocks View Post

              They were made from 06-09 in Japan.

              I'm working on remaking them using my own Dixis as the jig.

              Stay tuned.
              What's your ETA on this?
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                #52
                Originally posted by Sharocks View Post

                They were made from 06-09 in Japan.

                I'm working on remaking them using my own Dixis as the jig.

                Stay tuned.
                i'd be very interested in the section 3 !
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