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Old 12-29-2009, 07:23 PM
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Thats a pretty big muffler, if you are worried about drone from removing the resonator, just have them weld in a cheap resonator in its place (glass pack basically) which is a straight thru muffler with a small chamber to reduce resonance. It would still be pretty quiet with that monster muffler. Most after market resonators would be considered "high performance"
 
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Old 12-29-2009, 07:26 PM
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well where could i find a high flow resonator? i tried typing i in but nothing really comes up

and why wouldnt u recomend deleting the resonator? previous experiences?
 
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Old 12-29-2009, 07:29 PM
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Its easy to test at the shop, have them cutt out the resonator and tack in a pipe. Take it for a drive, if the noise at highway speeds is too high for you, go back and have them cut out the pipe and throw in the pack $70.
 
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Old 12-29-2009, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by auditech79
Thats a pretty big muffler, if you are worried about drone from removing the resonator, just have them weld in a cheap resonator in its place (glass pack basically) which is a straight thru muffler with a small chamber to reduce resonance. It would still be pretty quiet with that monster muffler. Most after market resonators would be considered "high performance"

what do u mean its apretty big muffler? its the same size as the stock one, just the piping is a lil bigger
 
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Old 12-29-2009, 07:33 PM
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Yeah, and the stock one is a tank too. Most aftermarket mufflers is half the length of that, could be the picture too. There are a lot of different designes of mufflers though, which impact sound greatly, it really is a science. Some are very short and are suprisingly quiet, others are long and sound like *****. Straight thru mufflers with a large chamber usually is what you want with a turbo car, (2.8 doesn't really matter) and the larger the chamber the deeper the tone. So if you removed the resonator and thats a straight thru muffler it should sound fine.
 
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Old 12-30-2009, 04:10 AM
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Thanks for the pic Phil!

Definitely the tips are huge improvement from stock tips.
 
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Old 12-30-2009, 04:31 AM
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no prob... il take another pic parallel with the ground tomorrow
 
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Old 12-30-2009, 05:43 PM
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here is the parallel shot

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Old 12-30-2009, 05:45 PM
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For $55 thats not all that bad, where did you buy it from??
 
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Old 12-30-2009, 06:01 PM
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