Advice on exhaust?
 

I just picked up my 370Z a few days ago and I absolutely love the car. The one thing though that is driving me nuts is the exhaust. I loved the sound of my straight six in my '81 280ZX. I just had a header and a custom 2.25" stainless exaust no cat and a high flow muffler and a Monza tip. I'd like something similar for my 370Z - something growly not totally muffled like the stock exaust. From the sound clips I've heard I don't recall any down shifts and that's one of the sounds I really like - the pop pop pop of an unrestricted exhaust.

So I guess my question is first off is the stock exhaust going to unmellow? Secondly do I need to do a Cat back or is there a set of replacement mufflers? Can I do a staight pipe from the header to the muffler or is there some (other than polution control, etc) reason why the cat needs to be in there? Is that what they are refering to as a test pipe? Thirdly what would be a fairly agressive sounding exhaust? I'm concerned about HP but I also know that unless its being tracked by a good driver 5 or 10 HP isn't going to make a lick of difference in real life so I don't care if one exhaust peforms 3 HP better than another.

... hmmm I can't seem to change my "Exaust" title to Exhaust so I guess it stays ;)

Youtube man... Everyone has different ideas of what is what..

there's Stillen catback, Berks catback..soon, berks HFC's, Fast Intentions at some point.

what else is selling or going to be selling over here in North America.

HFC's will fix the pop pop pop

YouTube - 370Z w/ Stillen Exhaust & Berk Tech HFCs: SynchroRev-Match Downshifting video

Btw, you can edit the title if you click on the Go Advanced button while in edit mode.

Just installed my berk hfc and its quite aggressive sounding. sounds beautiful

check this thread
http://www.the370z.com/intake-exhaus...data-base.html
i hope it will be useful for you

+1 youtube or the exhaust thread here on these forums..should find what ur looking for.

I would suggest searching youtube or meeting up with members in your area with modified exhausts

Sound clips are weak at best unfortunately. The Stillen one sounds the same as the stock on the sound clip from the Stillen web page. There is one other 370Z in my city as far as we can tell and its bone stock too.

Hmmm I would probably suggest test pipes and custom exhaust if your looking for something loud

def not stock sounding. stillen with the HFC, is LOUD. loud enough to be heard getting on the freeway from my house (about 1.5 miles away). fairly quite when you need it, and screams at WOT>

Fric, if you like the "cackle" and the loud "racerboy" sound, rather than the muffled, "fart can rice rocket" sound, I strongly advise unbolting the rear exhaust section just to check out the sound. It's pretty loud, but oh so sweet. That sound is just 10 minutes of labor and 4 bolts away. I drove it around town for a week that way. I was never afraid of the police or embarrassed because it was obnoxiously loud. It did "drone" quite a bit though. If you like it, you could get a shop to chop up your rear section, remove the mufflers and re-use the chrome tips for probably under $100. It seemed like it did gain some power on the top end, too.