Bought a Z, so i started a thread.

ah well. patience is indeed a virtue! gonna look awesome!

Its going to look the nutz....

Thanks Tom, i certainly hope so. Will be very disapointed if it doesn't.

Quick update ..

- JWT pop charger fitted:

Before


During


After


Sounds great and i'm sure i can feel at least another 150bhp!?

- Currently applying wheel sealant to the new wheels (6 hours in - i have fingers like used condoms right now )

- Changed out the headlamp cluster sidelights and indicators for silver / led bulbs

- Exhaust goes on tomorrow am

more pics and maybe a sound bite tomorrow ..

Dave

cannae waaaiit

Ok, just got finished with the wheels. Cleaned up the brembo's too. Managed to dodge the showers long enough to take a few snaps..

















Dave

immense. this is gonna be good

Ok so the exhaust is on, and sounding very nice to my ear. I took the car to work today to aclimatise to how loud it drove with bungs fitted - was quite loud. So tonight, after some incouragement from our Mr G i took the bungs off for a comparison. I've never been afraid of making some noise, so leaving them off me thinks

Some pics of the system..

















Will grab a vid clip tomorrow lunch at work with Mr G (if your about Andy?) and post up later this week..

Dave

Heard this at work today.........sounds awesome very raspy.........and that was with the bungs in.........very Lambo in sound.......

Looks spot on mate, will have to have a listen at JAE

Jim

Thanks Jim, looking forward to JAE big time.

Ok so the exhaust is on, and sounding very nice to my ear. I took the car to work today to aclimatise to how loud it drove with bungs fitted - was quite loud. So tonight, after some incouragement from our Mr G i took the bungs off for a comparison. I've never been afraid of making some noise, so leaving them off me thinks

^Just been for a ride out without the bungs in..



Total note change, sound is really deep and loses all of the bark. Not liking this at all, way too much drone at 80mph and super loud at idle too. Bungs going back in before tomorrow or neighbours will be taking shots at me on my way out to work!

Will grab some vid tomorrow at work and get it posted..

Dave

Ikarus wrote:

Thanks Jim, looking forward to JAE big time.

Ok so the exhaust is on, and sounding very nice to my ear. I took the car to work today to aclimatise to how loud it drove with bungs fitted - was quite loud. So tonight, after some incouragement from our Mr G i took the bungs off for a comparison. I've never been afraid of making some noise, so leaving them off me thinks

^Just been for a ride out without the bungs in..



Total note change, sound is really deep and loses all of the bark. Not liking this at all, way too much drone at 80mph and super loud at idle too. Bungs going back in before tomorrow or neighbours will be taking shots at me on my way out to work!

Will grab some vid tomorrow at work and get it posted..

Dave

I've had a few hi flow systems on the two cars with the VQ35 in and on all occasions i have had a bad drone in the cabin. I just learnt to drive the car in the rev spots where the drone was at its least
BTW don't start spending fortunes on dyno matting the boot and floor pan, i did and it didn't work, i had better sound deadening results with a bit of decent underlay.

Sadly didn't get the video today but Mr G and myself are on the case tomorrow. Vid to follow..

TomsV35 wrote:

BTW don't start spending fortunes on dyno matting the boot and floor pan, i did and it didn't work, i had better sound deadening results with a bit of decent underlay.

Interesting and timely comment Tom, my next point of investigation is sound deadening (not due to exhaust, but preperation for audio install). What dynamat did you try and what underlay did you get best results with if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks

Dave

i bought this stuff. Two extreme packs if i remember rightly did most of the car.

www.dynamat.com/store/images/car/10465-X...e-Mega-Pak-large.jpg

www.dynamat.com/store/store-car.asp

I put underlay on top of it just in the rear floor pan (which you dont have) and the floor of the boot.

It probably stopped only about 10-20% of the noise but added a lot of weight

Tom,

I think dynamat extreme is meant to be the best product on the market and what i had 'ear marked'. I have two boxes of this stuff already for the doors and boot lid. Its quite shocking that after that AND underlay you only got a max reduction in noise of 20%. I would have expected a lot more for all the money/work involved - not cool at all when you consider the extra weight as you say. The 350 picks up a LOT of road noise.

I consider myself forewarned, will delve a little deeper into this with the audio forums but i don't think there is anything better available.

Thanks Tom, PS had another look at ther roof pics - sometimes a second look changes your mind - didn't at all - looks spot on.

Dave

Well as you will see i found some wildlife entering my car today, turned out to be a lesser spotted exhaust blipper called Mr G, very rare!

s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh85/dm_ikar...current=DSCF1780.flv

Think this caught the note quite well.

Dave