deleted the last resinator on my lunch break

[Kosh]

kosh how can you assume no power increase it runs great it feels more powerful. there has to some less backpressure, those resinators create backpressure

How can you assume they cause backpressure and give you more power by taking them out? Air isn't blocked by these things, it changes the way sound waves travel through. Cats cause backpressure because they are packed with material that the air has to travel through.

 

[gsrtype1]

my buddy who lives in dallas is cruising up in a few weeks he has a nice samsung vid camcorder, ill posts some real vids , then ya'll be going woops i guess i'm a dumbass i was woring....lol

 

[gsrtype1]

no man there is alot of backpressure, if you look in the resinator the air it cuaght up in the chamber increasing backpressur

 

[gsrtype1]

kosh air is cought if you look in the resinators it has abucnc of whole whick suck up the airflow creating backpressure

 

[Kosh]

my cell phone does not really capture the purity of the sound , trust its sounds "sick" in a good way dude , if you dont want to belive , thats ok i dont really need to convince you im just relaying advise to the thread

I was just commenting on the way the exhaust sounded in the clip. I know all about cell phone recorded audio and compressing stuff to go on the web.

 

[gsrtype1]

brb going to watch a little tv and put my dinner on the barbie mate!

 

[mdl247]

i must say i think mazda ran out of money for the ms3 then cuz the last resonator is so a thin piece of crap they could only afford to put 2 solid resonators on, which brings to my attention that must be why sadly but thankfully no one got hurt in their ms3, that the ms3 has had their motor drop almost to the ground on the driver side due to not enough funds to put in a good bolt for that one mount.

 

[gsrtype1]

mdl247 i love my car, it was a specialty car developed by mazdaspeed of amercica. they developed and came up with the idea for this whole car mazdaspeed3 alexa, mps it was there idea . was all some guys at mazdaspeed of america , so give them some credit, yeah theres one or two imperfections but they did a good job

 

[gsrtype1]

good night buds going to eat and crash out, have a good night

 

[mdl247]

(headbang)oh of course i give them credit no doubt i still have my msp and still moddin it.
all i really have left is rods/pistons/quaife and im good 2 go.

 

[mdl247]

well i'm done with this thread your opinions is yours you say 3 resonators i say 2 and a muffler. i'll just leave to each his/her own.

 

[justa4banger]

WOW so much damn stupidity over a muffler and a resonator.............
First off resonator and a muffler do the same thing...... they both make the exhaust a little more quiet. A resonator does this with less backpressure than a standard typical "muffler".
Yes they make mufflers that have a straight through design and others that are baffled (flowmaster for example). Typically a car has one resonator and one muffler, the resonator helps kill the sound effect more than anything(droning the cabin), mufflers take it a bit further and slows things down a bit to help make it quiet.
Now i'm pretty sure there's a thread around here that shows NO PERFORMANCE GAIN from removing the exhaust. if thats true then replacing the resonaotors with striaght pipe did nothing but make the car MORE AUDIABLE........meaning LOUDER!!.

IMO the car has 2 resonators , 2 cats and 1 (ONE) Mufflers that is of straight through design.
This is one of those the glas is half full VS half empty... Either way, the only thing you changed was the sound, thats it. If there was any performance increase, YOUR BUTT CERTAINLY DIDN'T FEEL IT. exhaust changes are usually miniscule in performance unles a full tuned exhaust was installed and tuning was done to compensate.
For me a DP and a cat delete wpould be worht the money to change out, but anything else is a waste, UNLESSS you want more sound.

 

[gsrtype1]

bs.. the 3 resinators have 1000s of little whole to catch up the air it slows the flow down and creates restriction. , to say theres is no gain form this is rediculous less resriction equels more power, maybe not a whole lot but there is an increase and even if there wasn't i love the sound it sounds pissed off and lolud when i floor it. i love it

 

[Kosh]

bs.. the 3 resinators have 1000s of little whole to catch up the air it slows the flow down and creates restriction. , to say theres is no gain form this is rediculous less resriction equels more power, maybe not a whole lot but there is an increase and even if there wasn't i love the sound it sounds pissed off and lolud when i floor it. i love it

You have pictures of what was taken out? Mine are staying in and I don't have any other way to see what you are talking about.

Don't mufflers have resonators and resonator chambers in them? And you can have just a standalone resonator without being in a muffler?

Plus the welds in those straight pipes that replace the resonator or muffler in there aren't as smooth as normal exhaust pipe on the inside. That in itself would cause more turbulance in the airflow. Not that it is terrible or even noticable but don't claim performance gains if is isn't quantitative.

 

[SharkDiver]

I just had the muffler thing on the end and the resonator that is right behind that removed today.They both go straight thru and have those honey comb chambers in them,I dont know what it is packed with.The guy at the shop and I cant figure out why they didnt just use a resonator at the back instead of that straight thru muffler thing.We think it must just be for the sound change.
I do like the sound much better with just those 2 removed and it dont really cost much to do it.I had them put stainless steel in there so that was a bit extra but still it was only $110 with tax.I dont think there will be much if any gain in performance but the sound is better.

 

[gsrtype1]

dude i noticed the biggest diff when i deleted the last one closest to the cats

 

[gsrtype1]

kosh i'll take some pics and post them