The pods do make a difference in sound, I put pods on mine with the short TORs, still not even close to the sound I wanted. I don't know what you are after but seemed to me the pods changed the tone not the volume. With pods I had a deeper sound and could hear the pods sucking the air in to a certain degree. No longer hear that with my gutted pipes.

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