Resonator vs Straight Pipe

[svxthc]

What is your opinion? Too noisy? How much Extra HP? Increase/Decrease in MPG by what?

This is if I welded in a straight pipe in place of the bad exhaust resonator.

What would you do?
Pay 50$ for the straight pipe or have the warranty replace the old Resonator with a new one?

[sicksubie]

have the warranty cover the new resonator. IMHO.....

[NikFu S.]

Removing the resonator without doing any real work to the car or exhaust is pointless and could potentially lower torque a slight bit.

[YourConfused]

I replaced my exhaust with a hand fab'd 2.25 continious duals from manifold back using full mandrel bends and only one cat amd muffler per side. It sounds horrible and very loud inside and out from 1500rpm and up. I am wishing I had my quiet stock exhaust back on the car. I didn't notice any power difference nor any torque drop so...?. I'd say go the warranty route if possible.

[mikecg]

Too noisy, trust me. I'm running 2.5 in duals with a flowmaster. It sounds awesome for the first 3 days. After that you'll wish you had a resinator. Use a high flow. I had to run through inspection so I put standard resinators on it to insure it was going to be quiet enough. I'll be switching back to a flow through resinator later on.

[NikFu S.]

If you would like a litle kick to your exhaust note and some increased midrange power, drop the stock muffler and replace it with two pipes, then add a resonator to each pipe. Don't alter anything from the stock resonator back so have them replace that either way.