Exhaust Question

[mp3-79bronco]

well im not gonna lie im 17 and i want my car loud.... lol

i put a header on first, and it really didnt change the sound at all....

then today i put a 2.5 catless midpipe on, and it sounds a lot deeper, and exactly how i like it, just not loud...

would replacing the resonator with 2.5 make it noticeably louder?

 

[stdntDrvr]

i take it you have the stock cat-back? i know a guy with an apex 2.5" cat-back for sale that should do the trick...let me look-up his SN.

 

[stdntDrvr]

I_Vtec

he's a local guy to me...nice, honest guy.

 

[01ProtegeMP3]

i have the same setup you do... and i love it... if you get to small of a resonator your car will rasp... which IMO sounds like ass

 

[mp3-79bronco]

cool that apex would be sweet...i pmed him...

 

[Unkillable2]

i have the same setup you do... and i love it... if you get to small of a resonator your car will rasp... which IMO sounds like ass

just curious... what is the purpose of a resonator? i always see ppl removing them. and the resonator is the part that's fatter then the pipe right?

 

[lestat13]

Resonators are made to either quiet the exhaust of change the tone of the exhaust without affecting exhaust flow (or affected at a minimum). People are removing resonators to get louder without buying an aftermarket exhaust. I have seen this backfire on some vehicles, including my friend's jeep that now sounds like a GSX-R. I know that on the MS3 they hide noises that a lot of us like, including engine burbling and stuff, but different cars and different engines are going to sound differently.

 

[Unkillable2]

so the resonator on the speed 3 is making the car quieter? now i'm tempting to remove it! ;p

 

[tprouty]

then today i put a 2.5 catless midpipe on, and it sounds a lot deeper, and exactly how i like it, just not loud...

any way you could get a sound clip? I want mine to sound deeper than it is now... and I just have the OBX header installed.