i was looking at stillen for my roadster, hows the noise while driving with the top up and also with the top down

Everything I wrote in my review was from the perspective of having the top down. With the top up, it fills the cabin with a nice deep sound when accelerating heavily. At crusing speed, it's essentially silent.

thanks, stock is just not good enough

then you'll be very pleased with this one.

I got Stillen Headers, HFCs and Catback and it does not rasp that bad. It does a little when its cold, but once it warms up it sounds great. Its just a louder crisper version of the same sound.

BTW, I was once watching a video i took of my car and sped it up 2X. Sounds exactly like an F1 car. If I have time one of these days I'll get something.

i'd like to check out your exhaust too. i'm looking into what CBE to get but want to hear it in person. i'm right over in smithtown.

This was in reference to the FI long tubes coupled with the stillen setup, i would imagine that it sounds great with the shorties being that they arent too different from the stock exhaust manifold.

I've got the stillen too with the berk HFC's and love the sound, I'm just curious, how did you get the tips to line up without heating and bending the pipes back? or is that what you guys did? cos mine stick out a bit and from memory there wasn't much movement...

No heating and bending necessary. There are some slip joints on the exhaust that allow for a fair amount of adjustability. I didn't install it myself, so I can't exactly say what one needs to do in order to get them flush...all I can say is that if the installer knows what they are doing it should be no problem.

That's amazingly flushed fit! I like it a lot.:tup: It's a great exhaust (sound wise) and one of the oldest exhaust on the market for the Z. Job well done sir. Any sound clips? :excited:

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/s...m/IMAG0006.jpg

Thanks! I'll be taking several vids before the week is over.

Thanks for answering all my questions craniac! +1 rep for you!

I have to say...after putting 500 miles on this exhaust it's sounding even better. The note has really smoothed out and it just works so perfectly with the Stillen intake. The sound is so addicting, I don't even want to think about what my MPG has been, I've been riding it so hard. I only hope the vids I take do it justice! :tiphat:

Thanks to RCZ, Spearfish and Red370 for providing some of the reviews that helped me pull the trigger!

You're welcome and again congrats on a great exhaust.

agree love my stillen exhaust