How To Make An Altima Sound Like A 350z or G35 Exhaust 

If you really want to feel a nice power gain from just bolt-ons, throw on a set of long tube headers and an aftermarket y-pipe. We've tuned quit a few Vq35 Maximas and Altimas and have seen gains of 25+hp to the wheels with just headers and Y pipe. On average we have seen ~5hp gains from most cold air kits and about 7-8hp gains from a free flowing catback/resonator deletes. Those are wheel numbers, so as you can see if you liked the gains you felt from your intake/exhaust then get your hands on a set of decent headers and a good aftermarket Y pipe and she will really wake up. Then come see us for a tune!

Lol... all three vehicles have the VQ35DE engine, of course you can make them sound alike.

I....am impressed. This worked out nicely and pretty close-sounding to a Z. Speaking as a Z owner here.

WOW! By far one of the best sounding altima's I've herd. Very nice job.

great job I removed my resonator and the crimped section just before the y section... made a difference. Now I am going to install mufflers like you did.

Looked at all the comments and i must say. some of you have no clue what you are talking about. Here are the facts: You WILL get more horsepower on the highway with a cold air intake when you open it all the way up. However, your engine (by design depending on what you have) will only suck in so much air in at a time. You will NOT see the difference of a CAI in stop and go traffic; It will actually be a little more sluggish because of the sucking in of warm air from the engine bay. Highway speeds are different since you have a higher more consistent flow of colder air coming in that you would not have at a stoplight or stop sign. The thick plastic that your air filter box is made of is designed to insulate the incoming cold air from the engine heat. This is why a K&N filter has better results on street driving. Is allows for higher volume of air to pass through and the incoming air is protected by the insulated thick plastic called the air filter housing. It also produces the same results as a CAI on the highway..... Switching out the exhaust and removing resonator will reduce back pressure which results in your vehicle exhaling easier. This will create more horsepower when you step on it. It also sounds mean and gives it a nice low rumble in idle. Always been a fan of aftermarket parts, but you have to know what they will do for you and how they do it. Just thought I'd share with you some things I found out through testing on my own vehicle. Thanks for posting! Nice ride!

That joint sound right bruh! we need to hear it in action ridin by gettin on it!

Awesome !! I like the way it sounds 😁😁 good job buddy !!

Love the way it sounds dude, good work!

Sounds great bro!!! 3 thumbs up

nice. very clean setup and sounds badass!

Impressed! You did your thing Dnali

Sounds good ,looks good too man .

sounds good,nice looking altima also

Keep you car bro that's what you like I love the sound

This video helped me out dude thanks.

Cool shit man, getting an altima coupe hopefully soon. Every little mod counts.

I think it sound great honestly I love the pipes as well I want to get a short ram as well

it sound really cool

sounds pretty dam good to me nice set up u got there

Sounds amazing nice work

Almost the same, but it sounds good! Nice work. I need to get a little more sound out of my exhaust setup.

Always wanted a 3.5 nismo alti ... But that sounds amazing nice man

Thats is the dopest altima i ever seen

honestly i clicked this thinking i was gonna get a good laugh. but i must admit although its not the same sound of a z its very similar and the best sounding altima ive heard. good work. vq power is the best

Nice sounding exhaust dude! I have the exact same car but 5 speed! Pretty fast bone stock! I'm getting OBX headers and Y-Pipe then removing the resonator and adding the same Greddy as you! Can't wait for this spring! Keep uo the good work and fuck theses hates in the comments!!

the g35, 350z, infiniti v6 cars have that nice exhaust buzz sound.. i'm probably getting a maxima 3.5 or an altima se-r with that exhaust lol i like the sound

Awesome, sounds better than my 350z

Sounds good bro, I'm still experimenting with my 2006 SE-R. Got an injen cold air went from 260 to 268hp . Thinking about headers and turbo next.

It doesn't sound quite like a G or a Z, but it still sounds good. Nice effort; you get a like.

Sounds great in my opinion. I added those same mufflers and ditched the resonator on my 2010 Malibu with the 3.6 V6. I thought it sounded pretty good. Now I have a 2010 Acura tl sh-awd and I'm trying to find a good sounding exhaust for it.

Clean AF!

I eventually would like to get the whole exhaust system done too.

Yeah... so I own an 02' Nissan Altima 2.5 S that has resonator and muffler delete.. I envy VQ motors the way they sound with exhaust mods is so heavenly

All the negative ass people in these comments trying to put you down, man you like your car and you enjoy what you do, earned a sub from me, they all clicked and commented on the video so it helps you in the long run

Actually this car sounds pretty damn good for an Altima, if mistaken probably better than most 350z's that I've heard with After Market mufflers.

That came out of that!👍👍

U did good in replacing ur exausht and putting a straight pipe i did that to my car yestarday. Now heres a tip if u wanna make it sound louder get urself a big cold air intake i got mine for 60 on ebay, next get a stainless steel headers also i got them on ebay. Yes you would be replAcing ur catalyc converter but dont trow it away. When its time for the smog check just put it back on and when ur done just put ur racing headers back on. Like i said itll sound louder and ull feel your car different P.S- I ALSO HAVE A NISSAN ALTIMA JUST LIKE YOURS.

Sounds good man. Bless up

I went with the exact same set up as Dnali's, minus the intake (which I will be adding soon). By far best mod Ive done. If you want more rawness , don't buy mufflers, just take out the mufflers and res. When I put on straight through mufflers, I got a more beefy deeper tone, I kinda miss the old sound.

Sounds good.

I see those Ontario plates :)

Sounds good bro.

love the idea man

nice . def gona do that 2 my max

Dudes right it's so much better and noticeably faster with the intake

I tossed on some new headers, bought a brand new cat pipe, and put a cat back on, all b on a 2.5 altima, sounds pretty good

Sounds good. I did the exhaust on my nissan sentra it sounds like this but surprisingly i got a little growl to it. My car use to sound like this cuz i just had a new dc sports muffler put on it but after a couple of months i put open headers and cut both the cats off so its really loud and gave it a small growl which i love since its really hard to do on a 4 banger. Everywhere i go people think iv done an engine swap because it sounds so good. My next thing i want to do what most people dont know that goes together with the exhaust is performance cams which will make it sound really good but that is pricey

I didn't read all the comments below and not sure if this was addressed in them, but... THAT was definitely not a cold air intake and the fact that he says it several times made me laugh out loud.

Yo wtffffff this shit sounds better and much more mature than our 6thgen maximas...... Can't wait for this guy to come through with the ser!!! Time to get rid of my 07 max!

From what I understand its the way the entire stock exhaust was designed that makes the G35, FX35, 350z etc.. sounds the way they do. You lose that sort of when you non-y-pipe aftermarket exhausts, mine did cause its straigh vs y-pipe.

Lol, I remember when I first watched this video. I was cracking jokes until I heard that start up.

Kool.... Actually sounds bad ass

Good sound.. good job

In my opinion it sounds better than my 800 buck stillen cat backs on my 08 altima

That's sick man

I want my paint looking that clean

Gonna do this to my 2019 altima

i typically hate the sound of import cars!!! But that sounds pretty darn good man!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People are such haters. This guy did a great job! Sounds sexy. I just went from an 05 altima to a 2011 and I'm deff starting with a cold air intake. What he did to the exhaust sounds great.

wow! pretty close!!!

I only get "cold air" intake for the added rumble and style.

good shit homie!

You need a crossover pile in place of your resonator like an x-pipe not just a straight pipe. It will sound and perform better

wow my g35 sounds nice :)

Sick!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

nice bro sounds bad ass

The coolest thing about the vq35de engine. Is its stealth. F the noise

sounds great

DNALI, which year is your Altima? I love the way it looks.

Nice sound

sick I like it but you could also cut the cats off of it so it will rack and be deeper and louder and in sted of a straight pipe go with a glass pack way better

I just got my mufflers deleted on my se-r and it sounds way better then that even backfires

We need a launch video

I have a 2004 Nissan Altima 2.5 engine. It's a single exhaust pipe. I definitely want to get a different muffler then stock....im not sure which one you said. Was it G-Reddy?

Great job

Pretty damn close if you ask me. I wish I could find a vid where someone turbo'd a manual (preferred SE-R) vq altima and made 400whp+

sounds good nice backfire sound with the revs, just an FYI, the cold air intake you have isn't as great as they say, none of them for that matter, you might just be imagining It, without a tune the cars computer is going to too try to set it back to factory tune standards plus the short rams are kinda counterproductive because they suck in the heat from the engine bay, but they do make a cool sound since the filter is exposed, also the maxima and 350z have the same engine the 3.5L maximas anyway.

Hey I got questions id really like some ideas I have an 02 altima black what should I do. Everything is stock except the light bulbs stcu on what to do

can you help me out with what I would need to make my 2012 maxima like this?

Damn dude I'm impressed. I'm not rely into anything smaller than a V8 but my girlfriend has this same car and I have to say urs sounds good. Doesn't sound annoying. Are you gonna reflash the ECM now that u put a cai and exhaust? And what about a turbo or SC? If u do a reflash, do it the rite way and do it on a dyno to get max HP and plus u won't run it too lean or fuck anything up LoL

that sounds damn close man

sounds good

Wow....Just wow.

hey thats clean, would this work on a 08 altima? did it give more horsepower?

step 1: have the vq35 altima. step 2: your done

yeah the altima's sound sick as hell when you remove the resonators and the mufflers. but take it from me. i owned a 2003 nissan 350z with nismo catback exhaust, tones are way different. truthfully i like the altima better though, has the rice sound but not as high pitched as my 350z was

I know this was a while back, I have an Altima SER. I love the sound deep and not raspy. So all you did was a muffler delete/resonator delete and got a Y pipe weld?

no matter what you do, the altima/maxima transverse motors will never sound like a 350 because they are tuned differently. This is because the engine set-up is different. the 350 uses slightly different pistons and has a totally different intake manifold.

Hmmm maybe if you remove the exhaust cans and install two magnaflow mufflers or dynomax superturbos it would sound closer to a 350z. But i'll give you props your altima looks and sounds nice +1 ur vidd

Maaannnnn I fucks with that. I have an 06 2.5 . I just got it and I'm looking up what I could do to it. Thi is by far the most impressive one I've seen. How much were your pipes?

Good job

What muffler did you use for your altima and what size was the pip you added on?

I have a 2.5 with axel back DC sports mufflers. its low and grumbly but quiet. Should I do a resonator delete? I heard doing a cat delete throws codes.

Naw u had to do more den dat lol for dat impressive sound ....not bad at all my friend

Mine were 130 each plus shipping but for some reason I thought I got both for 130 but have the receipt right here.

I have a 1987 Nissan Maxima I want to make it sound like this you think it would be hard ?

How much you spent in all that ? And where can I find all that stuff?

Sounds better than a 350Z!

Is there a lot of drone in the cabin now?