DeadBread

Sorry if you wanted me to get straight to the point, but I'm new, pashionate about my Z, and want to ask and receive proper answers.

So I just recently bought a clean, prestine 2014 370z with 11k miles on it (my 1st Z). The car pulls hard at higher rpms and sounds good doing it! I absolutely love this car! Gapped a few 5.0's in the short time of owning it (bad driver mod on them gt's?) All the time spent grinding and saving up has definitely payed off! However, the car isn't perfect, not just yet... not how I'd like it to be for starters, realistically of course. The car just sounds far too tamed for my taste.

I plan to eventually refinance this car after a year or two, so I can get my monthly payments down to a level where I can save up more monet, and actually spend cash on high quality aftermarket parts. But within a year or two, I'm pretty much gonna run stock except for small aesthetic installs and I'm gonna be a bit cheap for the time being... which leads to my question:

Basic muffler delete and straight pipes, or replace muffler with glasspacks? Let me explain why I ask about the glasspacks.

I don't have any issues with my 370z, I love it the way it is, but I want to wake it up, go from tamed to untamed in terms to sound. So far, my research on previous owners doing muffler deletes and straight pipes led to a very "woke" Z! I love the sound, and think it will fit in nicely for a cheap price, in comparison to a GThaus system I eventually want to shoot for once I refinance the car.

That being said, muffler deletes are illegal in Texas, and although not an enforced law in the parts I roam in (unless you're way over 95dB), the yearly inspection part is what I'm worried about. Sure, it would seem like most people get away with it, or perhaps they didn't and swapped back and forth before and after the inspection... but it's still a risk and a hassle if I gotta swap constantly. Glasspacks isn't exactly a big topic I can find on older threads when a 370z is involved. But considering that they basically act like a muffler delete, yet still legally is a muffler nonetheless, I would essentially be safe when going in for inspections and still have a nice sounding 370z (especially when the glasspack breaks in).

However, I can't find much information about people using glasspacks on 370z's (most info is about 350z's and still limited), and if so, it's hardly enough to either convince me or make me avoid going for glasspacks.

So I ask all of you who'd like to help, should I go for the muffler delete and straight pipes? Why or why not?

Or should I go for glasspacks? Why or why not?

Please don't tell me to go for an actual expensive (or confident) exhaust setup... I plan on doing so already, just not this instant or year.

Thanks,


-DeadBread

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