glendayle
New member
So not necessarily a "prix" story. but I'm having a discussion with one of my best friends. He has a 4 cyl 2012 Audi A4 "stage 1" car. Then he starts talking about going "stage 2" or "stage 3"(I don't remember), but doesn't know if he wants to spend like $2000 on exhaust. I told him that exhaust is just tubing and that he could get a comparable exhaust setup from a good exhaust guy and could even get mandrel bends and everything for much less. Then he starts telling me that the exhaust this company sells for his Audi has "special" exhaust that maintains the same diameter tubing and that it's better than other exhausts and that a local place couldn't do the same thing because they don't have "special equipment" that's required to do the optimal exhaust stuff. At this point I was just done. I said, "well, yeah, then if the exhaust is that much better, you should probably buy it". My guess is that in the next 6 months he'll put about 3k or so in his car to step up to the next "stage" or however they work for his platform. Ironically this guy is one of my only friends that actually likes cars and pays attention to the auto industry, but I can't stand to talk about cars with him.
