Sorry, one more side note.

Another thing you should keep in mind when buying exhaust or having a custom job installed: make sure all the pipes are Mandrel bent. If they are bent with a regular pipe bender, there will be an indent at the corners, thus restricting airflow. For instance, if you took a three inch pipe and did traditional bending, it's only as good about a two and half inch pipe. The Mandrel bender shapes the pipe in such a way that there is no indent, and hence, no restriction!!

 

I disagree. I think the APR is definitely loud.

 

I could be wrong, I was just going by what others have said in the past.

 

It came down to 3 options: Milltek, Neuspeed and a custom system (from the best exhaust speed shop in the area). The Milltek was $875, the Nuespeed was $600 and the custom was $350. After deciding against a high-flow cat (too much $ at $600), I went with the custom setup. 2 1/2" downpipe, resonator back to dual tip 3" chrome tips (mandrel bends throughout). It looks subdued, but definitely not stock. It passed the sound test from my wife, which was important (had to sell a Mustang with 3" header-back because it was too loud for her). I noticed a modest performance gain without too much increase in sound.

Thanks for all the replies. As a recent A4/turbo owner, I've picked up a lot of useful info.

 

Great news! I'm always pleased to hear someone go outside the norm and do a truly custom mod. Yours seems like a great mod. Congrats!

Got pics? Post 'em!

 

Here are some pics. I can't argue with the look. It sure beats a huge can sticking out the back.

 

Sorry. I couldn't attach the pics. Size limit is 250kb, and I'm not enough of a computer guy to be able to compress the files.

 

Either post them somewhere else and post a link or go to a paint program and just resize them down - very easy to do.