i've searched but couldnt find what i was looking for.
does anyone have test pipes or high flow cats on the stock exhaust.
i like how it sounds stock and i just think it would be nicer if the sound can get a little louder. some info from people who have that setup or sound clip would be great.
thanks.

 

your going to get alot of rasp with test pipes..some with high flow cats but i think you would be happy with them

 

i just wish there was someone in my area with that setup so i can hear it.
Also, everytime i hear a FX truck pass by or a g35c it seems like their exhaust is lounder. Is it me or are they really louder?

 

They are louder

 

I had test pipes on stock exhaust. It sounded a little louder than stock. Then I added headers and it all sounded like raspy garbage. I kept the headers and sold the TPs.

 

I had TPs on the stock exhaust for a while. It sounds pretty much stock when driving normal and pretty mean at WOT. It does rasp but what people don't seem to understand is it sounds a lot different in the car than outside. I had a friend that rode with me and complained about the rasp and hated the way it sounded. Then he hears it outside at WOT and pulled a 180.

Blah, rasp is overrated.

 

i had it for awhile on my stock exhaust and i absolutly loved it...now i have the the turboxs exhaust catback and my car just sounds pissed off...i fuking love it man...i say do it

 

i have DC Sport headers and Helix TP's on the Nismo. I used to be stock.

It was a helluva lot louder than stock, especially at full throttle. i do have rasp right around 3100-3500 RPM, but it sounds way better than stock. changing to nismo shaped the sound a little bit and took off some of the rasp.

But, its kind of nice. under civil driving conditions my car sounds like a normal z with nismo but louder. once i rev higher, the car SCREAMS. its unlike any other car out there that ive heard, but im sure someone has done this before. I think you should go headers first, then TPs IMO

 

I love the stock sound too. I'm thinking of going with high-flow cats, not test pipes, and Nismo exhaust.

 

Ill sell you my intense power resonated test pipes for 100 shipped.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEjOLJJdwU

Clip with Nismo exhaust, test pipes and headers. Its really loud.

HFC do rasp too, just not as much.

 

+1 and i still dont know wtf rasp sounds like. i know i had it when i was running test pipes with my aam single ti but for the life of me i couldnt figure out what part of the sound was rasp.

 

I have stock exhaust and resonated test pipes. I love the sound. I get compliments all the time. Its basically the same sound as stock only amplified. Do it, youll enjoy it.

 

http://media.putfile.com/Dyno-vid-full-bolt-ons-untuned

Another clip from my dyno... In the car is sounds raspy from 2.5-3k but other than that... music to my ears. I don't hear the rasp outside of the car.

 

HAHAHA...."pissed off"...thats awesome. My Topspeed N1 comes in monday, i hope it sounds pissed off, that would be sweet!

 

Rasp is overrated, i agree! I have a little rasp around 3-3.5 and thats about it! After that it just sounds awesome!

 

Rasp on a Z isn't the same as rasp on a Civic .

I have 2.5" test pipes on an otherwise stock exhaust and I love the way it sounds, inside and out.

 

Agree. The noise level will increase.

 

Agree. Why not start at the beginning of the exhaust instead of the middle.

 

+10000000

It just sounds like an aplified stock exaust, it does rasp a tiny bit inside the car butits not horrible. Outside of the car you dont get any of it. IMO it sounds pretty good. I ran like that for about 5 months. I kinda miss it.