imo, just buy a gst cat back and bolt it on for the time being. I had a full 3 inch custom exhaust with a pretty obnoxious muffler with big ricer tips before when I had aspirations of going turbo in the near future. It was just too loud and I finally got pinned with the fix it ticket last summer and took it off.

The gst is very quiet in comparison and there is only a little bit of a power difference. In fact, it seems faster in the low rpms but slower in the high rpms. I am auto though, so it didn't show a whole lot. I think I paid like $70 for it. imo, just buy one from a turbo dsm'er and save until you can afford a 50 state legal greddy or apex'i of some sort.

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