Okay so I've done all my research on the forums and searching google and I'm not finding any definitive help. I know what I want to do as far as basic mods but I'm not sure how to approach them.

Exhaust: right now have the stock IPL catback with muffler deletes. But that's just a temporary solution until I buy a full catback. My mind is pretty much made up on Motordyne e370

Intakes: Short ram isn't an option so the obvious choices are takeda or gen 3s, I'm not leaning towards either one or the other, I plan to buy these used so whichever comes up FS at the right time for the right price.

Test Pipes: either Berk or AAM, most likely Berk because I can't seem to find much info on AAM.

And a tune to finish
so I guess my real question is in which order do I do these in. My initial thoughts were to go with test pipes first then intakes, after coming from the g35 community where TPs were a good bang for your buck. But my concern is will test pipes be hindering performance on a stock exhaust with just muffler deletes and will I get an obnoxious amount of drone? Or ,my second route would be intakes first then buy test pipes later with a cat back? I initially planned to save the catback for last simply on the basis of price. I really would like to do test pipes first then intakes just because of the price but I don't want to regret it once I have them in the car and it sounds like poo. appreciate any advice or comments you can give, thanks.

 

Personally Id leave test pipes last and here is my reasoning on that. Since you plan on getting the cat back exhaust at some point you won't know if it's too loud or quiet or raspy.. Ect. I'd put the cat back on before the TP's then decide if you want TP's or HFC or resonated versions of either to complement the exhaust and give you some more hp.

 

Go with high flow cats instead of test pipes. TP are raspy with this engine.