AWE exhausts have earned praise from owners and the press alike, due to their unique "Jekyll and Hyde" personality. AWE spends 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.

AWE spent considerable time examining how to maximize the performance and options of this exhaust system. The factory exhaust consists of a long downpipe with two catalytic converters, and two rather large mufflers in the section after the cats.

Thorough long term street testing has confirmed that their high flow downpipe will not set a Check Engine light or any fault codes in the ECU.

Here are some features of the 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
• Available with Round or Oval tips in Polished Silver or Diamond Black Finishes
• Thick .065" wall T304 stainless steel tubing
• Fully lined stainless steel flex joint in downpipe
• Stainless steel internal muffler and resonator construction
• Stainless steel MIG and TIG welds
• Stainless steel T-bolt clamps
• Double walled exhaust tips to reduce heat discoloration
• Included OEM turbo to downpipe gasket
• In house dyno developed

The downpipe features an integrated resonator to keep the exhaust sound volume civilized even with the elimination of the very restrictive factory converters. This downpipe is the first performance downpipe to be released that will not trigger a Check Engine Light on the latest CBFA engine code TSI 2.0T cars.

The catback system is topped off with your choice of 3.5" Round or our exclusive Oval Tips. Both tip options are available in Polished Silver or a luscious Diamond Black finish. The tips sport laser etched 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.

This catback systems will mate up to the stock downpipe, and the downpipe will mate to AWE's catback or any other catback that is designed to mate up to the factory downpipe.

Why did AWE choose 2.5 inch and not 3.0 inch diameter for their MK6 exhaust? The first 2.0T exhaust prototypes were indeed 3.0 inch, but they 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 the 3.0 inch prototype dyno sheets here and see why a 3.0 inch system is not appropriate for this car.

Please note that due to the use of high flow catalytic converters, this downpipe section is legal only for racing vehicles which may never be used upon a highway.