Is there a silencer in HKS TI dual exhaust? if so, will it make loud if i remove it?
 

Hi, I just heard that there is inner silencer in 370Z HKS TI dual exhaust that looks like a bolt or something on the muffler tips. I just wondering if I could remove those silencers? and if so, will it make my exhaust louder?

Errrrr....someone correct me if I am wrong....but...lets see.

The tips are adjustable, and the "silencers" are actually the extra "air cans" on the top of the muffler. This is for the HKS Ti Hi-Power version. If there is another version then the silencers would be removable from the outside right on the exhaust tips. Though the Hi Power does have bolts on the tip edges to enable adjustments of the tip lengths.

The extra cans on the top of the mufflers are the air chambers to mute the exhaust sound at low RPM's and the velocity of the air at higher RPM's will make most of the exhaust exit from the main mufflers only, versus being diverted.

The silencers on the HKS Carbon-Ti muffles were removable. It looks like a trombone or trumpet mute that just bolts into the edge of the exhaust tip via allen bolts after you inserted it into the muffler to reduce the exit diameter.

So to answer your question...assuming we are talking about the HKS Hi Power Ti tips exhaust system...then no, there is no inner silencer. Its the extra cans that help to dampen the noise at low RPM's to cut down on exhaust drone.

This image shows the resonation chambers above the exhaust as well as the bolt-on Titanium tips.

http://www.the370z.com/members/wheee...wesome-fit.jpg

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Some of my friends told me that I had silencers on my exhaust and that we should take them off just to see how loud it would be. I told them hell no.

I don't think they were referring to those chamber because they never got underneath to see it.

Ill ask them tomorrow. And post what they say.

You don't have silencers...so theres no point to ask them about it.

Some HKS Racing Full Titanuim exhausts have holes in the tip to bolt in a silencer. It's a JDM thing for paddock politness at the track. That transalted into some Carbon Ti and Hi-Power exhausts having the same feature (to add a silencer).

The 370Z tip looks similar because of the bolt holes, but as stated above it because the tips can slide in and out for length adjustments. Your friends might be mistaking the inner stainless part of the tip that the titanium bolts to as a silncer becauase you can see it's a double wall in there.

Oh.. I see now..
Thanks for the replies :D