Is the 370Z really THAT loud???

jtown82

wow lol.. if yall think the 370z is loud. you need to atleast walk around a v8 from time to time.... even with test pipes and no mufflers the 350 nor the 370z is that loud. i personally can barely even hear my 370z unless im going wot. then again i drove a ls1 with headers/bullet mufflers so my definition of loud is alittle different

Endgame

True. When my father bought my old Supercharged Stang, he put the baffles back in the Bassani exhaust I had... It was too loud for him; and now that I think about it, it was pretty loud.

litesky

define "ride".

the stock 370z drive-ability is more refined. my friends who have a 350 were surprised with the overall smoothness of the vehicle. Sometimes.....i even doze off (danger danger! thank God still alive) and start drifting.... ugh..too tired these days.

there are those who say the "ride" is rough because of the transmission. with my auto i notice the vehicle sometimes acting a bit rough as the car is slowing down to a red traffic light. mainly due to the transmission downshifting through the gears. others complain about the roughness of the manual shifting during the vehicles infant days...eventually it goes away (or something like that).

define "loud"

can't really argue against the road noise complaint. I've driving mercedes and toyotas in the past and hell yeah, its loud. Especially in the rain....you can hear the water like crazy... Jeremy Clarkson even made a point about noise in Top Gear.

but! the stock oem and nismo exhaust are extremely quiet compared to the 350z. imo, Nissan FAILED on this. but that's just me. It's okay. I'll just get a louder one.

but at the end of the day you know you buy a 370z for its raw-ness and brute power...which normally don't come with comfort and quietness.


*edit* just realized how old this post was.....lol