Exhoust. choices choices choices. Some input please :-)
 

S4-13b-RE
Some of you are familiar with the car some are not.

I really have my heart set on the RB and stand buy it as a top notch performance exhaust. But $800 and your exhaust goes from 80mm down to 60mm at catback.

From your guys experience what have you found the limitations to be compared to the SSAC and so on full 3in+ exhausts? Custom exhausts, mix matching and so on? I need to keep it fully bolt up if I can. No one had a mandrel bender with 300mi of me so bending and welding pipes is out of ? besides ordering them and that takes a wile unless someone knows exactly what parts to get. A very important thing is do not want the fart cannon look or sound, as well it is a semi goal to keep it as quite as possible to say not much if possible not at all louder then the RB.

So far the RB is my #1 choice. Just asking the group what they feel and suggest.

make it come out the hood and shoot flames.

13B-RE? You'll need a custom downpipe at least and if you're shooting for big HP go with a 4" exhaust, slap in a Borla XR-1 Muffer and a 'quiet' Magnflow.

But then again, I'm not quite sure what engine this is supposed to bolt up to. Ask a little better and we can help quicker.

88GTU with a S4 13b-RE

It is stock turbo and will be for atleast a year. It realy needs to be as bolt up as posible. Unless the parts chosen creat a straight pipe from DP to Y

13B-RE's come with twin turbos. Unless you converted it to single? Then the downpipe in the least has the be custom.

Sorry thought the RE was same as S4 13bT

No problem.

The RB turboback exhaust is plenty for a normal streetable set up, the exhaust itself wouldn't limit you up to the 400 HP range. Plus it has a great tone and its quality is unsurpassed (imho). That is probably the exhaust for you, since it isn't ricey. Also the Borla cat-back exhaust (paired with a RB presilencer and downpipe) would be cheaper and has a nice tone. Both of the before mentioned exhausts have high-quality and don't look like rice. Other then going custom, those are the only none-total rice exhausts I can think of at this hour.

Correction; it goes from 80mm to two 60mm pipes and mufflers. Those two pipes flow better than a 3" pipe.

Your criteria (build quality, sound quality, volume) make the RB system a pretty easy choice.

I got the SS auto chrome turbo back exhaust off ebay for 345 shipped. I love it so far, it looks nice and sounds good too.oh and you can't beat that price. Not to sure about the limitations on the exhaust but as I'm not looking to make crazy HP it suits my needs.

For my street 91 N/A I bolted a HKS cat back to a Bonez high flow cat to stock headers (gasp!). The Bonez piece is pretty nice, a mandrel bent one-piece with integrated pre and main cat. Flows great and the note is very throaty, almost like a muscle car at idle. I'm sure there is a similar configuration for turbo.

The SSAC exhaust is cheap, but it hardly suits what hes asking for. I have the Corksport cat-back (very simular), and thats ricey and buzzy as all hell (which doesn't bother me). But it wasn't what he truely was askign for.

i got that exhaust
i had a muffler welded in the middle, its still LOUD
i mean i got use to it, and even when cops are right behind me i dont get pull over
but its annoying when people gets into the car and says "man your car is loud"
and the exhaust smell ... i m gonna add a cat to the car later when i got more $$

Thx for the input guys. I guess I will brake down come off the 800 bills and get the RB. I checked into the boral b/c I rememberd seeing a post recently and looked at it and listend to it run. It was bettor then the SSAC but I dont think it matched the RB. For 100$ less I would spend that for the quality alone.

scubapsu - I have zero emishions so I need to build around this. My note would end up compleatly differ then yours. I may be wrong but I thought the HKS was fart cannons?\ like the SSAC?

I'm using a 3" downpipe and a flowmaster "Y" that splits from one 3" to dual 2 1/2" and two Racing Beat mufflers. It is very quiet untill the deltagate screams... LOL

I really like my corksports exhaust. It is loud but looks great and is affordable.

CS is a raspy fart connon design.