does anyone know if a resonator alone with no muffler would sound good

 

it will be loud and likely backfire and pop

 

It will sound like DO DO!!! Srt-killer has a 3" sidepipe with a 30" resonator and its is loud as **** and raspier than a honda!

 

where is the sound clip?

 

the gm performance exhasut has a resonator doesnt it

 

Yeah, the only exhaust for the cobalt that doesn't have a resonator is the pacesetter.

 

is anyone running with a magnaflow muffler and a magnaflow resonator on stock piping, if so how does it sound?

 

i put a resonator on, sounds great! i loved the sound of the pacesetter until i put the downpipe on... now it sounds just like it did before, it's awesome

 

all this talk about great sounding exhausts, yet there are no sound clips

 

i just talked to my muffler guy and he said its likely that the catalic converter might have something to do with it sounding like rocks are in my muffler, but the resonator should have nothing to do with it, so im taking it back to see if theres anything in there, and if there is im taking it to the dealership so they can put a new one on.

 

Its called rasp, 4 cylenders do it. Resonators kill rasp which is good unless you want to sound like a honda...

 

so its not the catalic converter. i thought resonators just baffle the sound, so all 4 cylenders without a resonator will have "rasp". and the only way to not have it is to have a resonator?

 

Yes. A resonator helps control "rasp". Also the proper catback or muffler. A Flowmaster will be raspy while a Magnaflow will sound good.

 

i was very raspy until i put my resonator in... now it's gone... great 50 dollars spent

 

so you basically have to go with a resonator, to have a good sound, but it wont be as loud. can you still turn heads with a resonator and a muffler cause i know it wont be as loud? do yall with resonators turn heads when yall are accelerating?

 

it's still loud... mine is pretty much just as loud as it was before the resonator... it just sounds a hell of a lot better now... but it's still not quiet

 

Buddy, my car can be heard from over a MILE AWAY, and I have not one, but TWO (2) RESONATORS, AND a big muffler! For some reason my car is just ungodly loud, but it sounds damn good

 

Sound clip?

 

LMFAO!!! See this is where you have to think about it. In order to get a sound clip, I will have to...
#1 Go film my car or find someone to film it for me
#2 Load the footage onto my computer
#3 do some rough editing to get it somewhat refined
#4 upload it on to the internet, a long process
#5 make a post saying I up loaded a video

See that a lot of work just to get you guys a sounds clip, and you must understand I'm FAR to lazy to do that. Now I prolly will have a sound clip after I'm done porting my blower ...

 

That's pretty much why I haven't got a sound clip.
I am far too lazy to do that as well.

 

See I will have a sound clip after im done with the blower. I ported in a way to DRAMATICALLY increase blower whine, hopefully my blower whine will be louder than my exhaust

 

The joys of having a V8! What is rasp?

If GM didn't think you needed a resonator they would not have installed it in the first place. Remeber the old saying: "Parts left off cost nothing and cause no service related problems".

 

The stock exhaust has a resonator...

 

what kind of resonators do you have, what kind of a big muffler do you have, and what size is your piping?

 

I have two 4" round 14" long resonators, and a 5"x8" oval muffler. The piping is 3" from collector of the header, to the exhaust tip.