agreed. anyone who thinks the 3.7 sounds as good as the 3.5 did from the factory needs to have their ears checked

glad im not going crazy. my fiance has an 08 G37S and i just got a Z. i was so disappointed to find out that the sounds are not the same. i LOVE the way hers sounds. much the same as my previous G35c...

I think it has to do with the length of exhaust. My Z was so raspy when I bought it that with in the first 2 weeks I had an after market exhaust on it. Now it purrs............

G35 and Fx even the 350z and g37 coupe have the sweetest stock exhaust note period. 370Z? Not so much.:(

A stock GT-R sounds pretty sick IMO, but that's kind of off topic.

I think tone is the same, especially at WOT. The 370Z exhaust is just a tad bit less aggressive. It's the same sound, but it's like they turned the volume up to "7" on the G and turned it down to "6" on the Z.

I'm not really into the chewbacca sounds of the g35/350z and the g37 is also quiet, maybe a tad more sound than the 370z but bottomline is ya it's too quiet for a sportcar, even the Nissan frontier truck sounds meaner.

I respectfully disagree with you. I think they have different tone even at higher rpm. I say that because I had a g35 coupe before. You might be right if you compare the g37 sedan with the 370z. I've drove plenty of g37 sedan every time I drop off my g35 for service. Yes g37 sedan might sound close to the 370z.

I hope you are kidding about the frontier coz I have a Xterra and I know how it sound like... And chewbacca sounds of the g35/350 is just beyond me.:rolleyes:

Just for the record, I'd be fine if my car made Chewbacca sounds as the exhaust.

OP just wants to purr guiz

I'm betting the reason for this is the length of both vehicles. the G37 is around 183 inches as the 370 is 167. This might have already been addressed i didnt read every page.

There are not very many 370's around Sacramento so i haven't been able to tell the difference.

Yes a 4.0 vq frontier engine is louder than a stock z

As an owner of both a 350 and a 370, their exhaust notes are very different to my ears.

The 350 had that classic "VQ" sound. The 370.... especially stock... has little of anything.

Even opening it up with a CBE doesn't give that same deep VQ-esque tone. Don't get me wrong- I think the 370 sounds pretty good, but it's nowhere near a 350, especially something from 2006 and prior (the HR had a quieter muffler).

Thanks for the thread revival and agreement. Since I've made this thread, it's confirmed to my ears that our z34's don't sound as definitively Vq as the others but at least we can take comfort that we are the sports version and weigh 300lb less. If it were as light as a frs, all the better.
On another note, the amount of gas this car sucks up is horrible as a dd. a sad thing that Nissan didn't integrate direct fuel injection into the engine. Even the genesis has it

Me too and :iagree: