High schooler with 2008 granturismo

My advice: do not make it louder.

But I'm afraid you will not listen.

 

Why would you want to spoil one of the best sounding engine and exhaust combinations that Maserati ever produced?

There several of these running around where I live. I get to see and hear a lot of very exotic cars most every day and this one is quite distinctive and elegant. It is not sports car or a street racer but a very lovely grand touring coupe with decent back seats. I wish my supercharged Jag sounded that nice. Now that's an example where some careful tuning would be a welcomed improvement. But done improperly the droning of a poorly tuned or too loud exhaust can ruin a vehicle for long trips.

 

You can get a mid resonator delete X pipe pretty cheap. That and figuring out how to keep the exhaust valves open make it plenty loud enough!!

That's the way my 09 GT S was when I bought it and I will leave it. With the exhaust valves closed it is WAY too quiet.

Congrats by the way on being industrious enough to afford and take care of a car like this at your age.

 

Deleting the mid resonator may lead to droning.
If you want more noise, keeping the mid resonator and emptying or deleting the rear silencers may be an option. But it will be loud!

 

I don't think mine drones. Well actually if you are driving up a slight incline for a very long distance, so you are on the throttle just a bit more, it can drone a bit. But that is a very rare circumstance. And without the mid resonator and the valves wide open....it just sounds amazing to me!!! It sounds especially amazing going under overpasses and other semi enclosed areas.

 

This is an awesome background story, congratulations, should share a picture if you can.

You have a zf auto, so you should be good in the transmission department (Maserati was just transitioning to these shortly prior to that time). Do you have a good indy mechanic? I would say things can/will happen, but best way to mitigate is to keep service up to date and not mess with anything - avoid the temptation to put in a new CarPlay head unit, avoid the temptation to change the exhaust.

Two reasons - one, it may cause an issue (not likely but possible), but two - you'll have eaten into budget that would've been better spent on keeping the car in proper mechanical order. There's a lot of GranTurismos with high miles, you just need to drive it consistently and not get behind on maintenance and spending $3k-$5k to make the car louder is a sure-fire way to make yourself start cutting corners.