Body: Vintage style exhaust.

I mentioned yesterday that the exhaust would be period correct. I've used the term "period correct" a few times, but I've never talked about what that means. The idea is to make it look like it would look in the 70's.

More specifically, what would our car look like on the streets of Japan in the late 70's? We'll talk about the body and style later, for now I want to talk about the exhaust, more importantly the muffler and tail pipe. This is a very important part of the style and sound of this car.

Lets look at a stock 240z to compare to.

This is all I can find. Single pipe from the manifold back. One resonator (11) and one large vertical oval muffler with a single tip. Very boring.

The under vehicle portion is simple. Single resonator (kind of like a muffler) with homemade piping. Lets look at some vintage exhaust setups.

The popular look at the time was Dual Stacks. That's two exhaust tips stacked vertically. Like this.

You can see one glasspack (tube style) resonator and one large oval muffler with two slash cut tips.

Then you have things like the Fujitsubo Legalis. This is a full exhaust with twin tips, very simple and one of the best sounding units. Although, I think it looks a little boring.

Like I said, kind of boring. Also, not race car enough. How about a real race car style exhaust?

BRE style. A Y-Pipe splitter branched off to two trumpet exhaust pipes. Awesome, but too loud for our needs.

No, what I need is something home made along these lines.

These are out of production, but their not hard to make. A Y-splitter, two short glasspack mufflers and two slash cut tip's. Resulting in something like this.

Maybe put a slight bend where the tips meet the glasspack so they point a little upward.