Resonated vs. Non-resonated exhausts

[PSI NRG]

Since I am in the market for a new exhaust I was wondering is there much differnce between exhausts that come resonated and non- resonated? Also what kind of sound differnce there was I kinda want something thats kinda quite while normal driving and then when im ripping it screams. I want to beable to hear the tubine wheel when the turbo is starting to spool if some one was standing behind the car I also want it to pop and back-fire alot when you down shift and just sound all around mean. If anyone has some imput on which exhaust sounds the meanest and performs well I would appreciate it thanks.

 

[BrokenTsi]

my buddy built his own exhaust using mandrel bends at vrsexhaust. It sounded awesome. He thought it was too loud and welded in a resonator. It was still as loud as it was before. Homemade turbobacks with ebay n1 mufflers sound the best, and its cheap too.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

I have a 3" built with Summit mandrel bends and a Summit resonator. I have an Edelbrock 5525, very quiet muffler, but still lets the turbine sound out at idle, through a high flow cat too. My exhaust is a (quiet 3") system, if you can put those two together in the same sentece. The only time it gets loud is when i decide to be an a$$ and open up the external dump.

 

[Goodguy162000]

On both my cars, my 92 GS-T and my 98.5 Ford Contour SVT, I initially went without a resonator... drove around on each for a while doing other upgrades and finally got sick of the raspiness... is that how you spell that word? My entire exhaust on the Eclipse is 3" and the SVT's is 2 1/2" duel exhaust. Anywho, both cars sound a hundred thousand times better with a resonator than without.

 

[Goodguy162000]

Oh, and in my own personal opinion, why in the world would you want you car to backfire? I can't stand that sound. Nobody I ever roll with can either. When we go out to the illegals and we hear a car with massive backfiring, we all smile and shake our heads. Even my 76 year old grandpa will point and laugh. Then he goes into the "old days."
"Nick," he says, "in my day I had six foot high fins..."

 

['96_Talon_TSi]

From the way you described the sound you're looking for, i think the Thermal R&D is the way to go. I have it on my car, and its not much louder than stock at idle, however is it noticable deeper. When you're cruising, same thing. Nice and subdued, not an annoying droning. However, when you get WOT the exhaust jst comes alive; it gets pretty loud but still stays in a nice deep rumble.

If you want to build your own exhaust you can get a universal Thermal R&D muffler at www.nipponpower.com thats where i got my muffler from.

 

[Matts95TSiAWD]

"and we had to walk 50 miles to school in 12 feet of snow barefoot..."

haha ive heard it too =P

i suggest u get a cut-off right after your o2 sensor. when u want all that mean-ness and power open the bi*** wide up. =D

 

[PSI NRG]

Thanks for all the replies so far and to the person that commented about the backfire I donno i think its sweet when you are ripping and in between shifts you get a nice firey pop like a back-fire my friends GTi vr6 thats blown does it all the time its pretty cool when you have a 3 foot flame shootin out the back

 

[Eastwood95]

there's nothing wrong with a backfire everyonce in awhile. Especially with an open dump, then shift, then huge pop and flame, people are like wtf is done to that car............

 

[PSI NRG]

there's nothing wrong with a backfire everyonce in awhile. Especially with an open dump, then shift, then huge pop and flame, people are like wtf is done to that car............

YES! my friends GTI has not cat and just a staight exhaust anda muffler when hes on the freeway and hes in third and the gets on it and shifts in to fourth theres a big bang with a huge flame that comes up to the rear hatch is pretty nasty

By the way does anyone have pics of their thermal R&D exhaust on their gsx or talon awd???

 

[Templisk]

While flames shooting out of the car *look* good, what happens to your poor paint job? Or, that flame gets out of hand with some poor hairy guy walking behind your car?

Here in Cali I've heard of people getting pulled over for it, the police deemed it "unsafe"

As far as exhaust goes, it's all preference. Some sound too deep for people and their ears will bleed, while that same exhaust may have an orgasmic effect on others.

 

[KlowdDragon]

you could always do what the "racers" around here do and drill random holes in your muffler, that adds great sound and performance

 

[SILV BLT]

a lot of the lumpiness and backfire sound is going to come from an aggressive cam too. Match a really free flowing 3" exhaust with an aggressive cam and you'll be backfiring between shifts.