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Tornado red GTI R-Tech stage 2
stuart-88:
My tailpipe is way past its best now so I'll be be changing it any way but you make a good point. The sound of just the decat as it is is pretty impressive! Wasn't expecting it to be as loud as it is on throttle and as quiet as it is off.
In the hope that the car will be getting some use over the next few months now :smiley:
AJP:
--- Quote from: stuart-88 on July 31, 2016, 03:29:09 pm ---My tailpipe is way past its best now so I'll be be changing it any way but you make a good point. The sound of just the decat as it is is pretty impressive! Wasn't expecting it to be as loud as it is on throttle and as quiet as it is off.
In the hope that the car will be getting some use over the next few months now :smiley:
--- End quote ---
I was never actually too keen on doing a full exhaust myself, but when the tuning bug inevitably bit I started looking at Powervalve (known as BCS at that point) and I kept seeing massive gains from their systems. So I went with Powervalve primarily for the performance benefit, but one thing that I really like about it is that it sounds incredible even rolling around town off boost. You get all sorts of burbles and crackles on the over run, and if you can get the traction control to kick in aggressively (not round town of course) you get full on burps like a DSG car makes on a shift.
What downpipe is yours? The full Powervalve is 3" all the way from turbo to the tailpipes. That probably contributes to the lovely noise it makes. Apparently the R32 style version I've got was three years in development! I'd imagine as long as your downpipe was 2.75" or bigger a Powervalve cat back would tick all the boxes for you.
wazza16:
Looks good!
Paradox1:
Looking good stuart. Have you got the list of pipe you need and also the bracket for the cooler pls?
stuart-88:
--- Quote from: AJP on July 31, 2016, 03:50:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: stuart-88 on July 31, 2016, 03:29:09 pm ---My tailpipe is way past its best now so I'll be be changing it any way but you make a good point. The sound of just the decat as it is is pretty impressive! Wasn't expecting it to be as loud as it is on throttle and as quiet as it is off.
In the hope that the car will be getting some use over the next few months now :smiley:
--- End quote ---
I was never actually too keen on doing a full exhaust myself, but when the tuning bug inevitably bit I started looking at Powervalve (known as BCS at that point) and I kept seeing massive gains from their systems. So I went with Powervalve primarily for the performance benefit, but one thing that I really like about it is that it sounds incredible even rolling around town off boost. You get all sorts of burbles and crackles on the over run, and if you can get the traction control to kick in aggressively (not round town of course) you get full on burps like a DSG car makes on a shift.
What downpipe is yours? The full Powervalve is 3" all the way from turbo to the tailpipes. That probably contributes to the lovely noise it makes. Apparently the R32 style version I've got was three years in development! I'd imagine as long as your downpipe was 2.75" or bigger a Powervalve cat back would tick all the boxes for you.
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My downpipe is 3", I'm swaying towards a Cobra as they seem a reasonable price and I like the tips on them, to be honest I haven't really looked into powervalve but I'll take a look :smiley:
Paradox - if you PM me your email address, I'll send over the list. It's saved as a picture on my phone and I'm too lazy to upload it to photobucket :signLOL:
The bracket on the crash bar to the cooler was something I bent up from 3mm mild steel and welded on.
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