After searching here and elsewhere, I found many post on people wanting to remove it, explaining how to remove it, removing it and cursing at the fight it put up, etc, but nowhere do I see anyone saying what removing it did for them.
I know when you are 17, adding rims is worth at least 15 Hp and a Turbo decal is worth 20. But I am no longer 17, so what benefit is removing the resonator?
Hmmm,
Better airflow is the implied benefit, but is it like the tuner tube? I already removed that and can sure feel that extra 1 Hp. Ok, maybe not, but my 17 year old son sure likes the extra noise. I know there are some real sharp people here that can chime in with some real world experience.
have you taken a look at the actual intake resonator itself????
it's very much so a bottleneck when it comes to moving air, and if your son enjoyed the sound of removing the tuner tube i'm sure he's gonna love it when you remove the intake resonator
ps, here's a pic of it.... look at all the chambers and whatnot..... quite restrictive
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Holy God! I think I saw that on Discovery swimming in the deep ocean. Sold me just on spec. Guess the car goes on the hoist this weekend! Just might be a horsepower gain not lugging the beast around. Thanks
Now as for my son, who says I let him drive the car? He gets the 13 year old Bimmer with 340,000 Km. The 2002 is my ride! If you can't torment your kids, why have them?
its not all that heavy.... its plastic...
tuner tube gives more air when taken out, but also when in, it gives more initial punch off the line.... <br>
I know that, I was being funny. It's raining and cold today and I can't get my sway bar installed because the kid's ride is in the garage with a dead alternator. So humour is all I got!
I did that and a K&N drop in filter and it picked up allot of throttle response
helped allot in auto-x and with the flowmaster it just sounds mean for a stock looking car running in a stock class
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see ya!
hey that video doesnt work, can someone give me a description on how to remove the intake resonator? and if you can can you also include pics? -thanks
yeah, i got your email bud
just check out the website that event just posted.... it's pretty straight forward
what might help to give you more access would be to remove the front bumper.... but i'm not sure how keen you are on doing that
i still havent done this yet... but im going to eventually . is that pic above the entire bong - resonator piece cause that looks damn big.
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I removed mine when I did my poly. trans mounts.
I removed the driver's side tire, fender liner, and unscrewed 2 bolts. Then i spent 5-7 minutes yanking on it till it cam out.
I did it mostly to get to one of the bolts on tranny mount. The K&N filter didn't seem to make a difference till I removed the resonator.
Shaune Drake wrote:i still havent done this yet... but im going to eventually . is that pic above the entire bong - resonator piece cause that looks damn big.
beleive it or not. that it
Im a Xbox 360 fanboy...and damn proud of it!!
thats huge
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the camera adds ten pounds
seriously, once you see what's in the picture.... you'll fully realize that it's not that big
