James R.

labor by a lot...I wonder what kinda lube they used on him, AstroGlide... ;-)

Regards,

James R.

PDXA4

tks man,I guess with miles on the clock it will improve bigtime .

Paul H. (near Annapolis, MD)

The problems I had with thin metal near the cat flange have supposedly been addressed, so hopefully you won't have to worry about that.

The Tip version was also missing a front bracket to bolt the downpipe to the transmission (not sure if this has been fixed yet), but I understand the manual versions have pretty much always had these brackets so again you should be ok (I had a custom bracket welded on mine).

Paul

nick n

All you have is air flowing through bare and unsmooth metal at a high velocity. I believe the carbon and soot accumulation will soon make up for some of the rasps at WOT when it's new. For me it went away in less than a week of driving, on that note, the inside of my tips are BLACK and I just cut out the inner tips last wekend!

BTW it's gonna smell for like a month

watts

My plan is to give it some time, and call AWE to hear their opinion. And I'll give Borla a call.
If I still don't like it after a few weeks, I'll take it off (myself this time) and put the stock system back on. Unless I can hear another system before then. If anyone has an aftermarket exhaust on their A4 in the MI area, I'd really like to hear it.

aronical

in a 93 probe GT.

Anyway the thing DRONES loud as $#|^ around 2-3K under WOT.

I also think I lost some low-end torque but the car maybe seems to pull better at higher RPM.

I paid $75 at minekee so I definately think $400 is out of line. Why should you have to pay all that money cause they snapped off the bolt?

Then again, I once paid $300 for a dealer to fix the door panels in my probe I screwed up putting speakers in.

Some things ya gotta chalk up to experience.


-Aron

Greyhound Guy

most American cars don't have a resonator. This cuts the droning/resonance sound that most other people experience. My dad is going to put a Borla on his XR4Ti, which also has a resonator. Should be interesting to compare.

James R.

No it's not split...they come out seperate if my memory serves me correctly

nick n

Correct!!