Anyone in Los Angeles area has resonators removed?
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Anyone in Los Angeles area has resonators removed?
I'm slowly working on my C63. got the Kleeman ecu. was told by Brandon there 2 things:
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
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I'm slowly working on my C63. got the Kleeman ecu. was told by Brandon there 2 things:
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
Droning noises at 75, how far are you commuting on your daily drive? Car is plenty quiet. Droning usually results from adding larger diameter pipe plumbing and becomes the new resonator through the floor of the car. Just stick with the same size piping in place of the resonator. We did exactly this to our other MB, an 03 stock C32 AMG, resulted in a nice change to the exhaust note, and definitely felt more responsiveness to throttle input. Took it out to the valley and had our favorite retired German mechanic give it a spin on the 118 and 405. Rock solid nice driving German machine.
Do you have a muffler shop?
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I'm slowly working on my C63. got the Kleeman ecu. was told by Brandon there 2 things:
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
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I wouldn't touch it if I did it again just for the fact I don't like cutting up stock parts, but it'd be nice to compare.
I would just do headers and/or 2ndary cats the first time around. PM me if you want to meet up.
No drone at all, cabin did get louder in the 1500-2200 RPM if I remember correctly it was practically quiet at stock.
I would just do headers and/or 2ndary cats the first time around. PM me if you want to meet up.
No drone at all, cabin did get louder in the 1500-2200 RPM if I remember correctly it was practically quiet at stock.
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I wouldn't touch it if I did it again just for the fact I don't like cutting up stock parts, but it'd be nice to compare.
I would just do headers and/or 2ndary cats the first time around. PM me if you want to meet up.
No drone at all, cabin did get louder in the 1500-2200 RPM if I remember correctly it was practically quiet at stock.
I would just do headers and/or 2ndary cats the first time around. PM me if you want to meet up.
No drone at all, cabin did get louder in the 1500-2200 RPM if I remember correctly it was practically quiet at stock.
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It also depends on what you use as a substitute for the Resonator, either X pipe or Straight pipes. The OEM resonator is "sort of" an OEM X pipe (the engineering concept is very similar).
I can also come out for the "sound check
" with you guys.
I can also come out for the "sound check
" with you guys.
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I don't remember it being that crazy of a sound change. If anything it smoothed out the gurgling/throatiness a little and sounded more euro/smoothed out reving. After a couple hundred miles I did think it was maybe a tad louder (10%) and a little different character.
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You can guess yourself blue in the face, but until you actually commit and followthrough, it's anyones guess. A lot of what you are going to interpret as drone is going to depend upon your ear, not everyone elses'.
Have fun and good luck.
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I'm slowly working on my C63. got the Kleeman ecu. was told by Brandon there 2 things:
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
1) dont put k&Ns, they'll mess up the MAS. Better to remove the carbon pre-filters
2) dont remove resonators/2nd cats: the car will be TOO loud. and u'll get a droning noise at cruising 75mph
I was wondering if anyone is in LA area had resonators removed so I can hear the car. I'm in tarzana.
much appreciated!!
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FWIW, I had a BMC drop-in oiled air filter in my BMW 335i...they make great air filters, imho; I may have to check out the BMC air filters for my C63 AMG when it's time to replace my oem stock air filters.
