The Science Behind TORQ Technology

How to Kill Your Highway Drone

You wanted that deep, aggressive exhaust growl when you bought your vehicle, but you ended up with a headache. Every time you hit 70 mph, the cab of your truck fills with a mind-numbing hum. That’s exhaust drone.

And for a long time, guys thought they just had to live with it to get a good-sounding rig.

You don't.

That’s why we built TORQ Technology. We designed this one-of-a-kind system to do one specific job: kill the drone without killing the volume.

How It Works (No Science Degree Necessary)

The secret behind TORQ is a physics principle called a Helmholtz resonator. It sounds complicated, but you’ve actually seen it in action since you were a kid.

Remember blowing across the top of an empty glass bottle to make a whistle? If you add some water to the bottle, the pitch changes. The size of the empty space inside the bottle controls the exact frequency of the sound it makes.

We use that exact science on your exhaust.

Vehicles create specific harsh frequencies at certain RPMs. That sound wave travels through your exhaust ports to the manifold and through the entire exhaust pipes into your cab. To eliminate that frequency (without affecting your power or airflow), we weld a precisely sized hollow chamber—the TORQ resonator—to the side of the main exhaust.

Fighting Sound With Sound

When the exhaust sound waves rush past this chamber, the annoying "drone" frequency gets pushed inside. It bounces off the back wall of the chamber and fires right back into the exhaust stream.

Here is where physics kicks in. The returning sound wave is perfectly timed to be "out of phase" with the wave coming from the engine. When the two waves collide, they completely cancel each other, like two ocean waves crashing head-on and flattening out the water.

We pinpoint the exact frequency that causes this drone and build the TORQ resonator to the right size needed to neutralize it.

The Result: No More Drone

Because TORQ Technology targets only the unwanted frequency, the rest of your exhaust sound flows straight through. There are no restrictive baffles choking your horsepower.

You get a loud, powerful roar when you step on the gas, and a smooth ride when you’re cruising. No headaches or compromises.

Just pure performance.