It's pretty hard to hear these exhaust setups in person, because the car groups here do their meets on Friday nights during my work hours. Only real way for me to hear them is through videos, or the random off chance I see someone when I'm not working.

I was doing a bit more shopping around today though. I think I've found what I want. Now I just need to work the courage to drop the cash lol. For now I think I'm going to go with the Motordyne Shockwave CBE, from the videos I've heard, it sounds really good. I'll end up getting some type of LTH soon as well, just haven't settled on a specific one yet.

Do yourself a favor and don't take car advise from those people again. Either they don't know what they are talking about or are trying to make you worse off for some reason.

Fast Intentions is one of the best options out there. I think ISR is just one step above generic eBay exhausts, but that's only my opnion.

A Motordyne paired up with LTH is going to be very loud. Just a heads up.

I picked up the Greddy Evolution dual system(they also make a single) for mine along with Z1 headers and Motordyne ART pipes.

I've never seen a single negative review from anyone about anything Fast Intentions puts out. Quality and service is top notch(I have a couple other things from them).

Oh really?? Anything that sounds like it, but a little softer?

The Motordyne sounds great and is very aggressive by itself. Once you pair it with upgraded cats/LTHs, it goes full on race-car in my opinion. If you really like the Motordyne, I'd grab the catback by itself and see how it is before doing the cats/headers.

:iagree: This. I ran the Fast Intentions CBE, unresonated, with the FI Long Tube Headers, and it was pretty loud. I had to switch to the 12" resonated mid pipes to reduce the volume to a more manageable level, and it's still loud, but much more bearable. We're talking 'sets off car alarms on a cold start' loudness, and the FI CBE is definitely not as loud as the Motordyne.

The Motordyne sounds amazing, I had it paired with ART pipes on my 350z, but I couldn't imagine it with headers as a DD.

Another determining factor for me was weight. After having a Fast Intentions LTH with Fast Intentions w/ 18" resonators setup on my first Z, I was actually leaning towards a Motordyne system on my new one. However, my FI non-resonated w/ Carbon Fiber mufflers weighs 41 lbs., half the weight of the Motordyne I believe, 85 lbs. Just additional food for thought depending on what your priorities are.

+1 Once you go the LTH route volume and tone will drastically change and be loud to most people’s standards. Rusty hit this one on the head. The FI and PPE LTH’s are expensive but worth it as fitment and quality is excellent and would be two of the best choices for LTH’s on a Z. To each their own in my experience with FI they were under staffed for their supply and demand from their customers and I had to wait an eternity (5 moths) to get my exhaust I ordered from them and people are biased to FI from what I see considering that people pay a small fortune to have their exhaust on their Z. Overall in my experience FI offers high quality exhaust products with excellent customer service to match. With other exhaust set ups I have had I also had a excellent experience with PPE and AAM Competition as well. The best of luck with your LTH installation my first LTH installation took me 8.5 hours. Make sure to have plenty of beer on hand.

FI 18” res + cf mufflers has been amazing!!!

Leaning on motordyne headers with the hf res cats as motordyne appears to use v-band for the header to cat connection allowing a swith to test pipies with ease.

Anyone running a motordyne header?

I’m running Motordyne Headers w/ hemholz resonator paired with a Fast Intentions non-resonated carbon fiber exhaust. It’s a great combo!

I was looking at that combo as well, how loud is it? I'm not trying to set off car alarms, but definitely want to still hear my exhaust lol.

It can be daily driven, essentially I do mine for 6 months of the year when the weather is nice. But when you lay into it, it screams. I think the Hemholz resonators, similar to Art Pipes, do a great job eliminating drone and/or rasp during normal driving. However when you want to have fun, it gives you that race car experience.

I don't have a full exhaust video yet but am working on it, but here is a short clip with a few mild revs.

Ahh, I don't have to worry about weather restrictions. I wonder if the 12" resonator with the ART pipes would make it just as loud as the stock or if it would still be louder.

That would be considerably louder than the stock Nismo setup.