im thinking about getting test pipes for my stock exhaust but ive heard some horror stories but dont know if theyre true....has anyone, more specifically jersey, gotten pulled over and ticketed for having test pipes?

 

Rock em, just make sure you don't drive retarded loud around cops.

 

as long as you dont step on it they wont know.

 

If you have emission testing where you live, they will know the cats are missing.

 

I do this ALL the time when I see cops, I just let off and goes silent, cops RARELY even look at me in my car and I drive one of the nicer "import" cars in my area.

 

Until they get right up behind you and can smell the obvious lack of cats.

SmoothZ almost made me pass out with his.

 

Well, in MN cops are too dumb to notice, or dont know its illegal, but technically we dont have emissions...so as for NJ I dont know, people generally kno wmine by the sweet rasp/rattle of the APS bees....lol.
Seriously though, it is about the easiest and cheapest hp to pick up and a solid investment if stock catback is the only way you plan on rolling. I did that for 3 years and was fine with it.

 

Rocked them for a year then switched to high flows when emmisons came along never got pulled over for sound just speeding I even asked a cop if it was to loud and revved it for him he said no it sounds great lol

 

prob wont get pulled over for being loud with stock exhaust and tp. It will sound great tho.

 

by great he means it will sound slightly amplified and raspy *barf*

 

********, you will learn to love the rasp....

 

I live in CA I have berk Test pipes and the hks exhaust. I have been rock'n that set up for about a year. No problem with cops at all. As far as smog goes. Take the test pipes off put cats on get it smoged then go put the test pipes back on. Getting test pipes was the best 150$ I have spent on my car. Along side my S2K antenna

 

I had test pipes on for a week. I went slightly retarded driving with my windows down. It was pretty noticeable power gain but the rasp was not something i wanted to live with. Its like a dirty roommate. Smells, loud and obnoxious if you are the kind of roommate then buy TP.

 

I rocked test pipes for a couple years, never got pulled over.

 

I have Crawford Hi Flo Cats + HKS. The performance gain and sound alone was worth it. Plus, HF's next to TP's are comparable in gain. At least the Crawford HF's look almost OEM, and the smell is not as "strong" as TP's.

You should be safe with TP's from everyone's advice. Just don't gun it all loud around cops.

 

I would link my video so you could hear the turbo xs ones I had with my stock exhaust but I'm on my phone I have a few videos so you can hear them cold start warm start revving and a drive around so you can hear the cabin nosie search r350zz33 on YouTube

 

To add on my original post. When i had TP i was pretty paranoid. Any cop in a 1/2 mile radius would know if i had TP because every morning when i pull out of my neighborhood, as soon as I get down the street i hear alarms from a street over going off.

 

Would probably get away with it for awhile. Hope you enjoy the stink it creates though.

Btw, they are illegal in all 50 states (57 if you're a Democrat).

 

yea but hfc are friggin expensiveeee....i just want my car to be louder with out spending a buttload of cash, ive already surprisingly done everything to my car that i wanted to with the exception of a louder exhaust note

 

Just throw a coffee can on it... Noise without gains...