Best Exhaust Header Build

[03protege5]

So as the title suggest “best” is obviously subjective. Currently my p5 has stock headers, no second cat, stock resonator and glass-pack muffler

My car burns a bit of oil so I replaced all my cats like 4 years ago so I’m looking to ditch the primary to rid myself of future replacement.

I bought some headers which are catless, and plan on doing the lower o2 standoff but my question is what exhaust should I run after? Assuming it will be quite a bit louder now without the cat so I thought about taking my glasspack off and using the vibrant ultra quiet resonator. Noise doesn’t bother me I just don’t want it to sound stupid and ridiculous as it’s just a commuter car

 

[misnblu]

I'm doing a similar setup with my header already purchased, will be hollowing out the OEM secondary cat as the first cat is a part of the OEM exhaust manifold, and tie it all together onto the OEM after cat exhaust.

Mines a daily as well and it's an automatic so keeping the stock exhaust will now be better flowing with the header while keeping things nice and quiet.

I have another car being built for performance with it having a manual gearbox.

Vibrant still makes a full exhaust for our cars but it's not cheap.
There's lots of possibilities so good luck and keep us informed in your progress.