Our exhausts have earned praise from owners and the press alike, due
to their unique "Jekyll and Hyde" personality. We spend considerable
time and effort during development to achieve remarkable civility when
idling and cruising at part throttle, while also producing a war-cry
wail when full throttle is applied. Sophisticated, refined, and
powerful, all at once.
We spent considerable time examining how to maximize the performance
and options of this exhaust system. The factory exhaust consists of a
long downpipe with two catalytic converters, and two rather large
mufflers in the section after the cats.
Thorough long term street testing has confirmed that our high flow
downpipe will not set a Check Engine light or any fault codes in the
ECU.
Here are some features of our system. Each feature was chosen for
performance and longevity reasons, and when making your exhaust
decisions you should settle for nothing less:
- Fully mandrel bent tubing
- Available with Round tips in Chrome Silver or Diamond Black Finishes
- Thick .065" wall T304 stainless steel tubing
- Fully lined stainless steel flex joint in downpipe
- Stainless steel internal muffler and resonator construction
- Stainless steel MIG and TIG welds
- Stainless steel T-bolt clamps
- Double walled exhaust tips to reduce heat discoloration
- Included OEM turbo to downpipe gasket
- In house dyno developed
The downpipe features an integrated resonator to keep the exhaust
sound volume civilized even with the elimination of the very restrictive
factory converters. Our downpipe is the first performance downpipe to
be released that will not trigger a Check Engine Light on TSI 2.0T cars,
even on factory software.
The catback system is topped off with your choice of 102mm Slash Cut
Tips available in Chrome Silver or a luscious Diamond Black finish. The
tips sport laser etched AWE Tuning logos and are double walled to
ensure a mirror polish even under hard usage. The system has multiple
slip joints with high quality stainless band clamps, to allow optimal
adjustment.
Our catback systems will mate up to the stock downpipe, and our
downpipe will mate to our catback or any other catback that is designed
to mate up to the factory downpipe.
Why did we choose 2.5 inch and not 3.0 inch diameter for our MK6 exhaust?
Our first 2.0T exhaust prototypes were indeed 3.0 inch, but we found
that the effort it took to move the large mass of air in the 3.0 inch
system at lower rpms resulted in a loss of torque with very little offsetting gain up top. Take a look at our 3.0 inch prototype dyno sheets here and see why a 3.0 inch system is not appropriate for this car.
Please note, the AWE Tuning Performance Downpipe is for racing use only.
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