Resonator Good or Bad??

[Silent Drifter]

I had a straight pipe with just a muffler at the end an it was extremely loud but it felt like it pulled great in top end. I just got a resonator put in an its alot quietter, but it feels slower. Does a resonator hurt performance if so ill get it removed. I was thinking it might have sounded like we were goin alot faster than we were, but it still feels sluggish.

[Checkered-Member]

Does a resonator hurt performance if so ill get it removed.

Why do you think it’s quite, because you reduced the exhaust velocity, which resulted in decreased performance.

[racin-type]

HAHAHAHA "deGreased performance" i think muscle cars came with that LOL

um yea anyway was your resonator a straight thru design? or was it the baffle one like a stock muffler's? if its straight thru it should hamper performance THAT much but if its the baffled ones then yea exhaust velocity go down the hoooole...

[Silent Drifter]

its a straight through, thanks.

[nolaws4evr]

just wonder what size piping you used, what muffler, and which resonator as I plan on goin with a similar setup soon.

Thanks, Josh

[Nathan]

I sincerely doubt you could notice any real performance difference from adding one straight through resonator. Leave it there, nobody wants to hear that ricey sound of just piping and one muffler.

[Silent Drifter]

nolaws4evr-Its 2.25" from the stock exhaust manifold back, just a lil regular straight through resonator, an the muffler i think is silveline it is tunable but just sounds better with out the silencer. It was the nicest one at the exhaust shop an a mufflers a muffler to me, as long as its not 5" around.

[Altiman94]

I don't believe tunable should be the word used for those type of silencer'ed mufflers. You can't tune them,you either have the silencer in (sounds like crap) or the silencer out.

[Silent Drifter]

^yup

[Scott McLellan]

In my flowmaster catalog they sell high persormance resonators and they say that any exhaust with a section of uninteruppted pipe more than 6 ft long needs one. This won't hurt performance and will enhance the sound.