I'm a marine who is forward deployed in iraq and I bought my beautiful 05 g35 coupe 5AT right before I left to come here. Bottom line is, I have 3-4k to play with and i was wondering if anyone could provide me with tips on the first upgrades i do to it...i mainly want intake, intake plenum, exhaust, and headers. Help Please,

Thanks

 

What are you looking for? Something loud, quiet, exotic or any perticular mixture of the above?

 

hks exhaust , kenitix v+ plenum ,injen cai intake , hi flo cats , headers and your staight until you need to upgrade your computer chip with a utec

 

hks exhaust, motordyne 5/16 plenum spacer, test pipes, stillen intake, headers=not worth it. then tune. go this route and you will be pretty fast. thats what i have on my 04 5at and i run 13's

 

scratch that get the bassani exhaust it sounds much better im thinking of switching from the x02 to it.

 

well, thank you for that, do you have any sound clips of the bassani exhaust? I want something loud but not too fart can sounding. i do plan on turbo or tt in the future, why are headers not worth it? and the test pipes, what are they for?? how much did this all cost you?

 

http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=324350 sound clips here. if you go headers they cost alot and cost even more to put on because theyre a pain in the a$$ to put on, then you only see a couple hp out of it im thinking around 5whp. test pipes delety your catalic converters, this frees up alot of exhaust flow= more power much more than you would with just headers. exhaust is around 1k, testpipes around 150-200 (find a used set for cheaper in the classified section), spacer about 220 (i think a vendor is selling it for 201 in the classified section), then just do a k&n drop in filter and get a z tube to replace your intake tube and youre set!

 

Test pipes are illegal in some states unless you are offroad, so you may want to go with HFCs instead. Fast Intentions or Crawfords.

 

eh unless you have emission sniffer testing i dont think you have to worry. i have them on my car and im pretty sure their illegal but i havent had any problems yet.

 

Save another $2-3K and put a standard Vortech kit in....you'll love the extra 100HP...safe HP that is.

Rick

 

Test pipes are illegal in all states and so are HFC's. They both do not meet emissions. But it is simple to replace when getting emission checks.

 

Stage II stillen and forget it.

Simple to replace if you know what you're doing-

other wise its 350$~ from a mechanic.

 

dont get test pipes they rasp and you can smell unburnt gas... go with motordyne 5/16 plenum spacer

as for intake and exhaust you will need to search fot that... its all up to you...

but i would do what ISMSOLUTIONS said...