AWE Tuning Performance Exhaust for VW MK5 GTI, Chrome Tips

Our exhausts have earned praise from owners and the press alike, due to their unique "Jekyll and Hyde" personality. We spend considerable time and effort during development to achieve remarkable civility when idling and cruising at part throttle, while also producing a war-cry wail when full throttle is applied. Sophisticated, refined, and powerful, all at once.

We spent considerable time examining how to maximize the performance and options of this exhaust system. 

Here are some features of our system. Each feature was chosen for performance and longevity reasons, and when making your exhaust decisions you should settle for nothing less:

• Fully mandrel bent tubing
• Thick .065" wall T304 stainless steel tubing
• Stainless steel internal muffler and resonator construction
• Stainless steel MIG and TIG welds
• Stainless steel T-bolt clamps
• Diamond Black double-walled exhaust tips to reduce heat discoloration
• In-house dyno-developed

The catback system is topped off with our signature 3.15" beveled exhaust tips in Diamond Black. The tips sport stamped AWE Tuning logos and are double-walled to ensure a mirror polish even under hard usage. The system has multiple slip joints with high-quality stainless band clamps, to allow optimal adjustment.

Our catback systems will mate up to the stock downpipe, or any downpipe designed to mate to the factory exhaust.

Why did we choose 2.5 inch and not 3.0 inch diameter for our MK5 exhaust? Our first prototypes of this system were indeed 3.0 inch, but we found that the effort it took to move the large mass of air in the 3.0 inch system at lower rpms resulted in a loss of torque with very little offsetting gain up top. Take a look at our 3.0 inch prototype dyno sheets here and see why a 3.0 inch system is not appropriate for this car.