DC Sports Dual Exhaust Review
DC Sports Dual Exhaust Review w/VIDEO
So I just installed by DC Sports Dual Exhaust yesterday.
First off, the quality of the piping and welds is a 10/10. Very very well built exhaust, thick flanges, 100% polished stainless steel. The tips are sturdy and welded on as well, not screw-ons. Has a true x-pipe built in, no resonators, dual 2.5" piping all the way through, and a fat dual canister on the end. No check engine even with APS pipes.
The fit was a 10/10 as well. I installed it entirely alone with the car on 4 jack stands in about 1.5 hours. Everything fit exactly as it should, and the tips are not touching the body at all and are equal gap between bumper and left/right tips.
The sound: I have APS test pipes installed as well so please keep that in mind. The sound is phenominal in my opinion. Its loud, but not overpoweringly loud and it still keeps that original Z purr...just louder with slight rasp. There is some rasp, but only between 3500 and 4000 rpm. Anything below or above 4500 there is no rasp. Drone only occurs below 60mph when cruising below 2500 rpm. Above 60mph in 6th gear there is absolutely no drone and is very quiet. WOT this thing is an absolute monster. It has a very race inspired scream given there are no resonators on this exhaust. It has very little rasp under load at WOT.
Like everyone says, video doesn't do it justice. First few revs were up to 2.5-3k rpm. The rest were too 5.5-6.6k around. Sorry I don't have a video driving it yet, it was the only opportunity I had available to use a decent camera. And I had to shrink this video from 200 MB to youtube friendly 50mb so that might have taken away from it too. Its really hard to describe how much this screams under WOT. Everyone tells me it sounds exotic, and almost has a race bike sound to it.
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First off, the quality of the piping and welds is a 10/10. Very very well built exhaust, thick flanges, 100% polished stainless steel. The tips are sturdy and welded on as well, not screw-ons. Has a true x-pipe built in, no resonators, dual 2.5" piping all the way through, and a fat dual canister on the end. No check engine even with APS pipes.
The fit was a 10/10 as well. I installed it entirely alone with the car on 4 jack stands in about 1.5 hours. Everything fit exactly as it should, and the tips are not touching the body at all and are equal gap between bumper and left/right tips.
The sound: I have APS test pipes installed as well so please keep that in mind. The sound is phenominal in my opinion. Its loud, but not overpoweringly loud and it still keeps that original Z purr...just louder with slight rasp. There is some rasp, but only between 3500 and 4000 rpm. Anything below or above 4500 there is no rasp. Drone only occurs below 60mph when cruising below 2500 rpm. Above 60mph in 6th gear there is absolutely no drone and is very quiet. WOT this thing is an absolute monster. It has a very race inspired scream given there are no resonators on this exhaust. It has very little rasp under load at WOT.
Like everyone says, video doesn't do it justice. First few revs were up to 2.5-3k rpm. The rest were too 5.5-6.6k around. Sorry I don't have a video driving it yet, it was the only opportunity I had available to use a decent camera. And I had to shrink this video from 200 MB to youtube friendly 50mb so that might have taken away from it too. Its really hard to describe how much this screams under WOT. Everyone tells me it sounds exotic, and almost has a race bike sound to it.
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Last edited by kaminariZ; Mar 31, 2012 at 08:00 AM. Reason: added video
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Sorry these arent awesome pics guys. I took them with my phone yesterday when I installed it. I'll get video tomorrow if I get my hands on my brothers cam.
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That's a nice looking piece. To be honest I didn't even know DC sports made an exhaust for our car. I thought only heads. Learned something new.
Last edited by PikesPeakZ; Mar 26, 2012 at 07:26 PM.
It is a full, true-dual catback with X-pipe and no resonators. This is why there is rasp in the 3.5-4.5K range, depending on accompanying mods.
kaminariZ, do the exhaust tips exit out the back exactly at the same angle? I returned this exhaust because, looking from the rear of the vehicle, the left tip was angled slightly upward and the right exhaust tip was angled slightly downward. I am curious whether I got the "bad apple" or this is just how they were manufactured.
Also, the bolts they provide are very cheap and strip out easily. That was my biggest complaint, outside of the tips welded at different angles.
Here's a photo of it installed:
kaminariZ, do the exhaust tips exit out the back exactly at the same angle? I returned this exhaust because, looking from the rear of the vehicle, the left tip was angled slightly upward and the right exhaust tip was angled slightly downward. I am curious whether I got the "bad apple" or this is just how they were manufactured.
Also, the bolts they provide are very cheap and strip out easily. That was my biggest complaint, outside of the tips welded at different angles.
Here's a photo of it installed:
It is a full, true-dual catback with X-pipe and no resonators. This is why there is rasp in the 3.5-4.5K range, depending on accompanying mods.
kaminariZ, do the exhaust tips exit out the back exactly at the same angle? I returned this exhaust because, looking from the rear of the vehicle, the left tip was angled slightly upward and the right exhaust tip was angled slightly downward. I am curious whether I got the "bad apple" or this is just how they were manufactured.
Also, the bolts they provide are very cheap and strip out easily. That was my biggest complaint, outside of the tips welded at different angles.
Here's a photo of it installed:
kaminariZ, do the exhaust tips exit out the back exactly at the same angle? I returned this exhaust because, looking from the rear of the vehicle, the left tip was angled slightly upward and the right exhaust tip was angled slightly downward. I am curious whether I got the "bad apple" or this is just how they were manufactured.
Also, the bolts they provide are very cheap and strip out easily. That was my biggest complaint, outside of the tips welded at different angles.
Here's a photo of it installed:
Hey man. Yes the tips are pointing out just fine on my car. I was actually very surprised and happy, because I had read your post somewhere else when I had just purchased it haha. I am very happy with it.
Its a full catback. In my opinion I consider it a true dual because each cat has its own piping all the way to the single muffler at the end. The pipes never actually merge together before the muffler. And yes it has a built in x-pipe right about where the motordyne xyz pipe merges, which I thought was really great too because from what Tony at Motordyne told us in the past, that is an optimal merge point for power on our car. So I guess these guys at DC actually had some quality engineering put in as well.
Looking good man. Its too bad this exhaust didn't become popular. Its actually pretty rare now which is cool. It really is a fine looking piece, from the chrome, to the quality of the piping, tips, and welds.
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Nice write-up. I agree that this system is of the highest quality. I just got mine installed too, but decided the rasp and db-level was too much and went with aftermarket resonators too. Now I'm beside myself.
https://my350z.com/forum/2003-2009-n...installed.html
And to the guy with the mismatched tip angles... that's not something I have observed. Might have been a bad apple?
https://my350z.com/forum/2003-2009-n...installed.html
And to the guy with the mismatched tip angles... that's not something I have observed. Might have been a bad apple?
Last edited by ordovician; Apr 1, 2012 at 06:46 PM.
