resonator delete??

[skyliner650]

if i replace the resonator with a straight pipe will it decrease the performce?

[Hamsterman]

I don't know if it will really decrease/incresase performance on a basically stock car, so much as it will be very loud and throaty when you rev the car... some people think it is pretty annoying, as you lose a deal of the deep tone...


at least that is my opinion

[RedPhoenix]

Personally... I would rather have no muffler than no resonator. You know those honda civic bee fart cans.... most dont have resonators... and sound like ass.


getting performance? i would think you get more performance out of deleting your cats and picking up a louder tone in doing that.

[Axel Kain]

what about put a glasspack in place of the res. and keep old muffler, or upgrade muffler?

[mspringer]

You won't lose any performance, but you won't gain, either.

I did it on a 4cyl Altima, and (at least on that car) the sound didn't change much (I also had a header, high-flow cat, and larger pipe), but what happened was that at certain PRMs, the exhaust got much louder - my assumption was that the resonator was there to tame the sound at those specific RPMs.

[Axel Kain]

so what, you put on a glasspack? hey, i could just get the glasspack put on, and keep the resonator in case it dosent work like i want it to.

[megamac83]

Hey guys, I have a coupe of questions, my next serious mod to my 99 l4 is a complete exhaust system. I was told getting rid of resonator will increase flow thus performance??? I was looking into headers hi flow cat, straight pipe with an exhaust from HKS. So should I be looking for a resonator because over all my goal of all this is power and sound a deep sound which I think would set the car off?????

[AyzhenInvasion]

headers - ripp mods
^ comes with hi flow cat

get a glasspack resonator...
people say I4 without resonator sounds like ass

glass pack is straight thru therefore.. theres minimal to no performance degrade

unless ur going to go forced induction, dont' worry about how much power u can obtain through exhaust.

[hester21289]

would a v6 with a magnaflow muffler sound gay without a resonator ?

[WhiteRabbit]

itll sound good, just loud

[Phat Devil]

Resonators removes the droning and the annoying rattling/buzzing sound.