Have had mixed experiences. Ordered an AWE resonated w/ black tips, never told me it was on backorder. 8 weeks of "it's coming soon" led to "we actually can't get the item you ordered," which eventually led to me escalating and them shipping the exhaust which was in stock in another warehouse...
'21 Mazda CX-5 GTR (Turbo Model).
Wife and I recently moved to the suburbs from NYC, so we went from no cars for years to two cars in the matter of a month late last year.
If I had to put them on a scale:
Fully Stock: 3/10
AWE + Stock DP: 4.5/10
AWE + AA Catted DP: 7/10
AWE + Catless DP = 9/10
The key thing with this combo is there is no rasp at all, and no drone, it is a very clean I6 sound. It is dumb loud at cold startup, quiets down to nominal levels at...
AWE resonated Touring with Diamond Black tips paired with the AA catted DP. Without the DP, it has a nice deep aggressiveness, with the DP, it is very aggressive and quite loud, but no drone. I've heard the AWE, HKS, Akra, Valvetronic, Magnaflow and Tomei in person, and the AWE for me was the...
Those same companies with 200 years of collective experience filled this motor with 0w-20 oil too, which is a joke. Things are done for liability and regulatory purposes... the break in being liability and oil being regulatory (emissions).
I have the AWE resonated touring with an AA catted DP and it sounds IMMENSE. No valve wasn't an issue for me, and a few buddies have AWE exhausts on their F80 and F22s and have loved them. I really really recommend the AWE.
Here is a sound byte, but it does not convey how deep the sound is.
Just got the oil analysis report back from blackstone on my '21 A91 and some of the figures were way out of range. Sent them my break-in oil, changed at 1250 miles. Really high on Molybendum, Copper, Boron, and Silicon and high on Iron. Obviously will be keeping an eye on this and will do a...