I actually did something just like this on my old 96 TSi AWD but it went out the bumper. Very clean install and the weight loss is awesome! Good job, man.

 

this is a two for one, passenger delete mod saves weight too

 

Pretty creative man. The only thing would be the smell in the cabin.

 

After driving around today, there is no smell in the cabin. I cannot warm the car up in the garage anymore, but driving there is zero smell.

 

BAD ***!!Is that the whole exhaust now??Its basically your downpipe and catback rolled into one right?

 

This is extremely bad ***.

Nice neighborhood btw.

 

Is there going to be different on power as well? Idk how it's gonna looks on rear without muffler tip. Looks sweet tho

 

So far the car feels as it did with the 3" TBE. The only major difference is the noise. It is louder than my other exhaust, but I have not had any issues yet from the man.

I can still hear the Wastegate dump over the exhaust at full boost, and the car pulls great at WOT.

Also no isssues with speed bumps and steep *** driveways. So nothing to worry about with that. Also I check to see what plastic parts were getting hot, and the only part that got warm was the front bumper right where the lip attaches. The splash guard was cold, also well as all other surrounding parts. So I will add a little gold foil to the inside of the bumper just for ****s and giggs. Tire temp did not appear to change, using the good old hand on the tire, but will test with a temp gun over the weekend or next week some time, after some hard pulls on the freeway, and streets.

On Monday I will be in Los Angeles, so we will see what the cops think of it there. I am also waiting for a nice hot day to sit in some grid lock and see how thing heat up as far as the LICP, and AIT's.

 

I absolutely love this setup. However, I feel like it may be a b*tch on the highway for long periods of time, exiting in the front of the car.

However, that's only an issue for those of us who put our cars through the treacherous duty of DD'ing.

 

How much does that muffler alone weigh and also what are its dimensions? Thanks.

 

looks sweet. i am guessing you don't have an undertray.

 

very bad *** bro! i think the greddy full titanium is 10lbs ? maybe... and i paid ?1000 for mine

 

very nice setup. I don't think it would mess with your AIT to much as the air going through the lower pipe is already hot and about to travel through an efficient heat exchanger.

 

looks sick man, only issues i see like someone posted before, about the whole tire/ possibly your rubber suspension parts on that corner might wear prematurely due to the heat in that general area. maybe cutting a whole in the fender and putting it through there might be a better long term idea. I do like the setup, its easier to shave 40 lbs curb weight off an exhaust then some people to go on a diet here. haha Course my other thought would be to help keep the licp from heating up, you ever thought instead of using exhaust header wrap, have the licp jet coated. That way itll retain the heat inside the pipe without having the exhaust pipe heat up the air even more. Good luck man. Oh btw, just to throw people off, permanently fix the muffler back onto the rear end. That way it looks stockish to the untrained eye.

 

Two Step Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89DZTVaQR7Y

Detail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJUGhu_y3s

Up and down the block with a little boost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJX2RNkvxw