Tom Coolen swaps straight pipe for a Twister sound test

The Duramax exhaust installation ends with alternating before-and-after revs, and viewers don't all hear the same difference.

Channel: Tom Coolen Story of November 6, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 490,684 views a day, 8.3 times a normal first day on this channel (58,765).

Twister vs Straight Pipe!

The pipe needs persuading. Tom Coolen brings out an impact wrench and a hammer to remove a straight exhaust section, making room for a Twister resonator whose sound is the question hanging over the job.

His new Short has drawn nearly 200,000 views in seven hours, already well beyond his usual full-day audience for the format. After the stuck-axle extraction featured here earlier, this job offers another dose of stubborn metal, but with a listening test at the end.

Coolen begins by showing the resonator's interior. "It just looks like a straight pipe, but it's not," he says. The customer supplied the parts for the Duramax installation, which involves more than simply slipping a replacement into place: Coolen shapes a custom hanger from U-bolt rod in a vise, then welds it onto the exhaust piping.

The workshop improvisation extends to opening a clamp's packaging with an oxy-acetylene torch. Viewers pick up on the hammer-heavy approach, trading tool jokes alongside their assessments of the sound.

Once the truck is lowered, Coolen switches between recordings of the exhaust before and after the work. Some commenters hear little difference; others describe less rasp or a quieter result. One compares the exercise to listening to guitar-pickup comparison clips. Coolen's alternating revs give everyone the same thing to listen for, without settling the argument for them.

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The numbers

The Short has already passed Tom Coolen's usual first-day views while still only hours old. Its comment count has also exceeded his usual full-day total.

the video's first day

usual first day here

58,765

this video

490,684

subscribers

352,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

211,826,884

views per day

314,750

typical day: 367,347

the video

views

197,566

likes

8,875

comments

319

days online

1

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As of November 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.