Sleeper Exhaust Set Up?

[BigCave]

I live in a exhaust Nazi area of California and it is hard to express your individual creativity and love for cars. I want a nice performance exhaust but any tampering will be caught especially in orange county. So if you cant ditch your stock exhaust, why not keep its appearance but modify the sound??

I am planning on purchasing the stock test pipes for my Nissan 300zx that have fake cats on them and welding in two electronically controlled cutouts. Then ill keep the stock H-pipe and put on some nicer looking muffler from specialty Z.

If I tuck the cutout dump pipes up by the transmission, it should even be hard to spot unless a mirror is used.

Sound like a plan?

[everpresentnoob]

why in the hell would you want cutouts on a NA z.... Thats just gonna sound horrible...

[NolimitZ32]

^ this

[DCaff300ZX]

why in the hell would you want cutouts on a NA z.... Thats just gonna sound horrible...

...and, continue to give them a reason to do it (be Exhaust Nazis).
Cutouts on an NA Z32? Wow...
A proper exhaust relieves pressure buildups and restrictions in order to make the engine's job easier and in the case of turbo(s) provide better throttle response, and usually without a lot of noise increase unless in very high HP cars.
Loud, obnoxious oversized exhausts that are more common these days do little of the former (make engine work better/easier) and more of the latter (useless noise), and is why there are "exhaust Nazi's" and also a LOT of others who do not appreciate that waste of effort and time, much less the assault on their eardrums.
Do everyone a favor and make it work as good as it looks AND sounds, not just loud and obnoxious only.

[Ace2cool]

Not only that, but the N/A actually needs a bit of backpressure from the exhaust. Dumps will actually give you a small loss in hp.

[DCaff300ZX]

Not only that, but the N/A actually needs a bit of backpressure from the exhaust. Dumps will actually give you a small loss in hp.

Very true...when I got my exhaust done for my NA, it took three tries to get the proper backpressure and make the car run as good as it sounded. Those three tries were 1) smaller Magnaflow mufflers, 2) smaller free-flowing cats, and 3) re-adding resonators and re-doing the rear pipe bends to the mufflers (very tight bends, easy to make them too abrupt) and slightly larger muffler tip exit diameters.
The final result was a nice sound without rasp (finally with the resonators back on and the muffler tip change) and a small bump in the midrange response. It sounded like an a$$ ricer before try #1, better sound but still some rasp and no power until 4500 rpm before try #2, and perfect after #3.