Thanks Road Warrior, you know, everytime i add a mod, I think it feels a little better on the butt dyno. After the cats, i thought it felt better, now with the headers it feels better again. Now i sort of can't wait till the next dyno day just to see what i have now. I hope it's at least 260 rwhp.

 

not trying to be mean here but....

are you all tone death? sounds like that green SOHC Non-vtec civic with DOHC VTEC stickers that pulls up to my school everyday. maybe it sounds better in person? gee, i hope so.

im definately staying away from stillen exhaust now along with those RT HF Cats

thanks for the clip though and not a bad setup, good look on the dyno.

 

haha, hey VQ35, i know what you mean, that tin can sound. Actually, it's not quite that bad in real life, it does sound much beefier than your honda civic going down the street, i just haven't had time to post a driveby. Just flashed my ecu for all the exhaust mods i just did and i'm getting more power and bit more solid sound, i was running slightly lean but not too bad, plugs weren't all white.

 

Drive by videooooooo, dooooo iittttttt, doooo iiitttt

 

Hi everyone..I just got the Nismo exhaust (and pop-charger) on my Z and I am really REALLY pleased with the sound and increase in performance. Don't have a clip yet, but I plan on doing one after I install the headers in the next week or so.
I'ver never been a huge Stillen fan 'cos I think their stuff's a little pricey, but for now (in my opinion) Nismo rules!!!

 

yes yes!! do itttt! (except this time dont forget to take the cap off)

 

lolz yeah, I wouldn't have minded seeing an exhaust tip and the garage floor

 

Steve,
you can't go wrong with the nismo stuff, should work out great!

Pain and VQ35, you guys crack me up. Well, i'll try to remember to uncap the vid-cam next time .

 

Thanks for the boost Island Say, re: your flywheel, did you do the clutch also? And were you happy with the way it drove afterwards?

 

Sorry Steve,

didn't install it yet, it's something i'll get after my tax return comes in. I'm not sure to go with the full clutch upgrade, but i might do that anyway since it'll be apart. From what i heard is the nismo flywheel isn't that much lighter so it doesn't feel that much different driveability wise. But that's what i want, i like the way the stock heavy flywheel drives, very easy on hills, lots of momentum stored in that weight. I'm not into track so i guess i really don't need a superlight flywheel, so i thought the nismo would be perfect. I guess if you buy the whole nismo clutch package it makes less noise than just replacing the nismo flywheel (rattle between 1-2k rpm everyone is saying). But if i get it, i'll let you know. I know some members on here have the nismo flywheel and like it. I'm not sure if it's an R-tune item or S-tune item though.

 

For those of you who want to see a blurry tailpipe spewing water out, here's another exhaust shot. For those of you who hated it, well..... you'll still hate it haha. :P

http://islandsnow.home.mindspring.com/exhaust6.avi

 

wait, it's too huge, i'll re-convert back to wmv

 

try this for your listening pleasure....

http://islandsnow.home.mindspring.com/exhaust6.wmv

yeah, still sounds raspy, i'll see what happens in the next few hundred miles...

 

Glorious and Gracias, sounds great at idle, thanks a bunch, pretty sure I'm going to get the stillen exhaust, thinking about the kinetix cats cause they are cheaper :/ and the stillen headers, unless the Greddy headers come out and are cheap as promised but have close stats to the stillen, all about the hp and tq

 

you know, it'll probably sound pretty good with the kinetix, but the RT's do feel good on the butt dyno, don't know how the kinetix ones are, but anything is better than the stock cats, the stocks are huge and heavy. Well, let me know how your setup works out Pain.

 

I will, I'm still in the studying stage while I save up for a z, I have almost enough for the downpayment I wanted, going to try to hold out on buying the car until I at least have enough saved up or the catback and popcharger :/

 

I wanna go in for headers but I'd like to get hi-flow cats too. Does anyone know which cats are carb certified for Ca.?
Thx!

 

bk...You'll be suprised at the performance increase you get just by doing the intake/heads/exhaust...and don't worry about the sound for 2 reasons...1st you can't really get a good idea what a car sounds like by just revving it up in your driveway, ya gotta take it out and drive it! 2nd...all these digital sound bites don't do the best job of relaying the actual sound. If ya ever get near Corona (ca) I'd be happy to take you out for a Nismo demo ride!!