I want more noise

[charv94]

Right, I've started my placement for university and I want to make the GTI noisier.
I want to get an exhaust system and I'm not sure about what to get and also where to get one from?

Slip on or full length? I'm not interested in performance gains I just want the noise.
Akrapovic seem good but a little pricey, 1600 for slip on and 3500 for evolution line ( full length)
What else is good?

Help

[GrahamFR]

I'll not bother asking whether you want a resonated or non res system, that seems evident so if you wanna be full bore all the time or just at full choke? I'd say milltek or Bcs Powervalve depending on your choice.

[Exonian]

Save yourself a grand and buy a drill...


Failing that get a Milltek non resonated and buy your neighbours some earplugs for when you get home from MaccyD's at 2am.

I saw a MK4 Golf on Sunday with a massive double exhaust that stuck out miles and was as loud as anything. It was also sitting on its bumpstops and had cotton reels for wheels. I wish I took a pic of it!

That was just before I was overtaken by two mk5's within about ten minutes of each other. One a black GTI overtook me on a blind bend in a 30 limit then did an illegal right turn into a 'buses only' slip road.
The next was a red TDI GTI wannabe that overtook myself then another car in a 30 limit before cutting in to turn left - at a red traffic light so he had to stop anyway? What the flying f##k?
I hope I wasn't quite that stupid when I was young. Mind you with my luck, if I'd taken my tw@t pills and did something like that, knowing my luck, the only police traffic car within 30 miles would be parked up right in view! 
Are sporty Golfs turning into chav mobiles?

Am I getting too old for all this?


Anyway, Milltek Non Res. good quality, British, good reputation....

[fredgroves]

Am I allowed to offer the grown up advice that any exhaust you fit that is louder than the OEM part used for the Type Approval is illegal.

They don't even have to measure the noise level to charge you...

[charv94]

I'll not bother asking whether you want a resonated or non res system, that seems evident so if you wanna be full bore all the time or just at full choke? I'd say milltek or Bcs Powervalve depending on your choice.

Resonated or non resonated is all gobbledegook for me. I think I'd want some form of control over it? Is that possible?

[charv94]

Am I allowed to offer the grown up advice that any exhaust you fit that is louder than the OEM part used for the Type Approval is illegal.

They don't even have to measure the noise level to charge you...

I don't understand?

Plenty of cars make far more noise than a golf GTI so how could making it slightly louder be illegal?

[MXResonance]

I'll not bother asking whether you want a resonated or non res system, that seems evident so if you wanna be full bore all the time or just at full choke? I'd say milltek or Bcs Powervalve depending on your choice.

Resonated or non resonated is all gobbledegook for me. I think I'd want some form of control over it? Is that possible?

Are you saying you want to be able to electronically increase the sound of your exhaust, that way you can make it louder or quieter whenever you want?

[GrahamFR]

I'll not bother asking whether you want a resonated or non res system, that seems evident so if you wanna be full bore all the time or just at full choke? I'd say milltek or Bcs Powervalve depending on your choice.

Resonated or non resonated is all gobbledegook for me. I think I'd want some form of control over it? Is that possible?

The res and non res basically means quieter or louder. The Powervalve is a boost controlled system that opens up the majority of the exhaust, so imagine if you were driving slow it sounds like a standard exhaust, then if you open her up it sounds very loud. There are other systems out there like IPE that use an electronic control to open up the exhaust instead a mechanical type system, these are usually more expensive though and you have to push buttons instead of just pushing your foot down.

And yes, technically speaking changing the exhaust is illegal, but so are HID lights and doing more than 70 on the M1, doesn't mean anyone is going to pull you for it, providing its not to the extremes

[remlapeel]

I agree the BCS power valve is the way to go if you want control and it sound decent. If you just want noise, take the rear silencer off and stick a straight pipe there

[remlapeel]

Or buy an R.....