It's the least I could do. You made a great product, and it deserves an honest review. I'm really glad you liked it!

 

For all you sound junkies out there, heres a vid of my Z, stillen true duals and megan racing resonated TPs, to compare to the ART pipes. Keep in mind that the cameras cant really capture the sound, so i think that the ART pipes give much less rasp than even resonated TPs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zcg_iO7FzE

Naga, if you want me to take this vid down, shoot me a pm. Awesome vid/gains btw!

 

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^^^ +1

 

Once we re-tune my car for the ART pipes I'll have that comparison, though on a diff day.

 

Very nice write up and nice gains.

 

Thanks, guys. Once I get my car eTuned by Uprev, and everything's running where it's meant to, I'll get re-dyno'd and post the results here. I imagine they'll be even bigger, as I can already see areas that need some attention. Of course, it would be a whole lot easier and more accurate if I lived closer to Austin....

 

Please let us know as soon as the HR one's are available. I will wait for some comparitive dyno tests before throwing $$ into my Z hole again....

Now if I can just get the Gen 3 CAI sorted out life would be good....

 

Great writeup and another great product from Motordyne!

 

Need to hear these on another exhaust combo. Maybe the Stillen is causing most of the rasp, because as of now the sound is still too annoying for my tastes. Very great gains though. Exhaust systems are finally making power for the Z.

SG vs. MD shootout please

 

Bump for re-tunes Onago/Scott

 

I had the car eTuned a couple of days before going down to Austin and having it tuned. The eTune took care of almost everything with the exception of some mid-range gains (2 or 3 whp) that I picked up during the dyno session. So I feel dumb, because now I'm left guessing how much the tuning gains were. Based on my estimation, I would say the eTune/tune combo picked up about 6whp up top.

[I'd post the peak numbers and charts, but I believe the Stillen headers are hurting my performance (by my calculations, I may have lost as much as 9-12whp). I've called and emailed Stillen about this. If it doesn't go well, I can promise a thread dedicated to the issue.]

 

With all of those mods + tune (whether e-tune or dyno), you should be making a lot more power. Something is definitely holding you back, and the headers are usually a culprit. DEs don't like headers anyways, most I've seen either lose or gain next to nothing.

 

Yeah, it's looking like an epic fail on my part in buying the headers. I'm probably going to bite the bullet and switch back to my OEMs within the next 2-3 weeks depending on how things develop. It pisses me off to have made such a costly mistake.

EDIT:
This is all wrong. The headers (w/tune) actually gained power.

 

Wasn't an epic fail in buying the headers. Epic fail in taking them off, though (lost 10-11whp). I think it's a definite WIN in the sound department, though. The raspiness that would kick in around 3200rpm is all but gone. I've gone back and listened to previous clips, and I can safely say this sounds even better than back when I had the same setup but with Stillen HFCs. It's a smoother and deeper sound, in my opinion.

Here's a quick video/sound clip I put together after removing them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3Cb7WsgbA

 

I recently purchased the Amuse R1 Titan exhaust with the JIC-MAgic Y-pipe and I'm seriously considering purchasing these ART pipes from Motordyne. I'm running a turbonetics kit though and I want to know if the ART pipes will work with my turbonetics kit?

 

no if your ST because your cats are removed for your cross over piping from your manifolds. If you were TT or SC they would work.

 

^+1

 

DAMN! I totally heard that deep sound when you shift. SEXY SEXY SEXY

 

If I fabricate the ART pipes to work with my crawford headers and turbonetics kit, would that work?