AWE Track Exhaust

[Diokhan]

There's several of you on here that have this on here and am interested in your thoughts. I know its definitely going to be louder than dynamic sound on stock, but how loud is loud? I've seen about every video I could find and think it sounds awesome, but it's really hard to judge the loudness of a sound clip vs in person. I'm fine with louder, it's the "too loud" that I'm wondering about. When highway cruising, can you hear yourself think? Would it pass the "wife" test?

[Lord Dragon]

When I first had mine installed, I was really worried about it droning a lot. It took a day or so to find at which point the RPMs made the exhaust drone and at what load. I was also worried about the up-shift farts (hate that). There was some rattling and vibration at certain RPMs too. You definitely know there is a straight pipe exhaust there. Its a daily driver for me so I have it set to "Auto" - doesn't really matter now what the exhaust setting is at. Here's what my experience is:

At normal application of throttle, there is very little drone from 1500 - 2300 RPM. Just enough throttle to get to city speed limits. No boosting.

At moderate throttle from 1500 - 3000 RPM, there was drone until you got to whatever speed it was you wanted to reach, then settle into cruise mode and no drone.

At WOT it roars and farts and puts a nice smile on your face. I think the up-shift farts changed tone slightly after a couple weeks because now I rather enjoy hearing it, but by the time I hear it, I'm already breaking the city speed limits. It's most likely the ECU adjusted to my driving after it was installed.

At highway speeds the engine turns about 1600-1700 RPM and there is no drone and exhaust is barely noticeable; however as soon as you come up to a hill and the engine comes under load, it immediately starts to drone until you've crested the hill, then nothing.

Music pretty much cancels out the drone - but you can't carry on a convo. The drone itself though is not quite as intrusive as I had expected it to be. I had a heavily modified turbo prelude with a custom 3" exhaust WITH a muffler and it was much louder than the Track.

It's been about a month now since I've had it on the car and while it's not for everyone, I can't imagine the car without it now. The barking, burbles, farts and roaring has added another level of fun factor to daily and weekend road trips. Now I just need the intake :) I would say that it would pass the wife test... if she's into performance in some way. Especially once she learns to modulate the throttle for sound.

A couple sound clips I made. Excuse the dirty car, winter has been horrible lol. My spacers are arriving soon so I will swap to summer tyres and stick a Go-Pro on the back to record some spirited shifts and launches.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhIJO9vB...ken-by=_lambo_

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhsP6J-H...ken-by=_lambo_

[Diokhan]

Thanks for taking the time for the write up and review the other day. I don't hear much feedback on regular driving with these, so that was helpful to hear.