Hey there,
Just bought a 98 A4 1.8T Quattro and I started looking for exhaust. Now what I don't want is something that is so loud and obnoxious someone will mistake me for just another tuner going by in a civic. Does anyone have an exhaust kit on one that can speak from experience, or maybe know someone who does have one?
Thanks
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Oh and by the way, I've been doing some looking around...everyone here seems to know their stuff.

 

I have a Bolra cat back kit. I like it, has a nice throaty sound, not too loud unless your under acceleration. Also has very little drone at high speeds.

 

well thats good considering I was thinking of that one.

 

Love my neuspeed exhaust

 

Borla sounds good. If you go larger than 2.25, be sure to have a good resonator to avoid rasp.

Additionally, adding a Labree HFC really changes the tone. Labree HFC with the Borla 2.25" cat-back sounds pretty awesome to me.

 

i plan on going straight pipe... all throat, pop, and backfire.

music to my ears

 

if your going for noise only then borla is nice. the thing i don't like about borla is it's 2.25" where your stock exhaust is 2.17" , not much more flow.

if you want performance at all i would go with techtonics turbo-back, milltek, even magna-flow sounds pretty good. and they have more flow with 2.5" (milltek is 2.75").

 

The Milltek, as well as many other larger systems, still use a 2.5" down pipe. Anything past the down pipe is not going to affect performance noticeably (unless it's crush bent or incredibly restictive). Unless you have a HFC or test pipe, even a 2.5" d.p. is overkill, but it does allow room for future applications and mods.

 

i run techtonics with a test pipe. i love it, umm go on youtube and listen to sound clips. thats how i picked mine out.

 

I think I am going to go with the Milltek turbo back. thank ya'll for the advice.