Resonator Delete. Test Fit.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:02 am

Well, I took about 20 minutes this afternoon to test fit my mug.

Cut it all apart, pulled the intake apart, and the thing fits snuggly with no modifications to the mug.

I need to pick up a peice of vaccum hose for the purge canister and the wastegate (or whatever the hell is right behind the airbox), and get the elbow peice from VRG3, and I'll have it installed. Hopefully by next weekend.

I'll post test-fit pictures tonight for you all to see the progress. It looks pretty factory, which is a bonus.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:05 am

Here's the pics.

Looks factory eh?

Soon as I get the fittings, I'll drill and install. I'm also going to do a bit of custom work to make it look pimptacular

legacy92ej22t · Post by **legacy92ej22t** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:08 am

Mmmm...That looks tastey. I will need to do this too very soon.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:14 am

Target has the mug, home depot has most of the fittings. I'm just awaiting the Elbow.

Should look pretty clean I think.

Matt Monson · Post by **Matt Monson** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:59 am

Ok,
I obviously missed the first thread on this. Do you literally mean a mug, like a coffee mug? You are what I call a gizmologist extraordinaire

MRT sells a resonator delete out of aluminum for like a hundred bucks, or something silly. This is a super ghetto fix that looks super tight!

mTk · Post by **mTk** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:00 am

Yeah, it's a coffee mug. legazee on the bbs came up with the idea. Mine is aluminum and doesn't look nearly as good.

MK

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:07 am

Mine is stainless steel and looks pimp as shit. I need to dye the fitting vrg3 got me black, and paint the brass fittings black as well.

I think it looks pretty damned good.

I posted this on another board and someone said "what coffee mug? All I see is an engine bay! Is this some kind of joke?"

So, if others think it's factory, then it's all good

import_freak · Post by **import_freak** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:00 pm

Just wondering what does taking out the resonator do?

eastbaysubaru · Post by **eastbaysubaru** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:36 pm

It should smooth out the intake tract making it flow a little better.

-Brian

minoru · Post by **minoru** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:40 pm

What does the resonator purpose is??? What does it do?
What does it contain?

Too many questions...but I want to do the moggification too:)

Who was the first one to do this??? We should pay him copyright:)
Thanks a lot ppl.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:43 pm

I think the resonator is just to quite down the sound of the car. Nothing but open space inside. Legazee was the first on the board to fit a mug in there.

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:48 pm

Its purpose is apparently to reduce intake noise, but I don't think any of us know for sure what the engineers were thinking.

It basically just contains space for the air to swirl into eddies on its way to the compressor inlet. It's hard to describe. There's nothing actually obstructing flow; it's just that it allows air to leave the direct path.

legazee is the inventive fellow to thank: http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... 8&start=24

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:49 pm

Ach! I'm too slow!

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:00 pm

minoru · Post by **minoru** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:33 am

Ok....did the resonator swap...with a stainles (thin) cup. It doesn't look that good...but it was the only cup that I could find with proper dimensions. I am serious....it took me 2 hours to find one. Anyways, I put it in. I took off the snorkel from the fender...WOW...what a diference. If not in power at least in sound. IT IS LOUD!!! It allmost sounds like a cracked exhaust

But...does that gives you backfire???It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't. Probably I have some problems with ....smth...does anybody know anything???

Oh....I almost forgot: I CAN HEAR MY BLOW OFF VALVE, or westgate or however it's called (how is it called??) even though my car is automatic.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:42 am

why would the transmission have anything to do with your bov?

QuickDrive · Post by **QuickDrive** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:29 am

I'd say because you normally let off the gas in a manual to shift, getting the BOV sound.

where in an auto, you don't.. unless you wanna hear the sounds and just let off for fun.

IronMonkeyL255 · Post by **IronMonkeyL255** » Fri May 14, 2004 5:41 am

What brand mug was that?

I went to target trying to find one and couldn't.

ovlaicu · Post by **ovlaicu** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:23 am

Same problem here...But I found some broken ones at Zellers. It fited perfect though it was kind of thin. But it's ok. And loud:)

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:35 pm

It's in the Target Automotive section. It's got a "100% spill-proof" sticker on it. It fits perfectly.

Brat4by4 and VRG3 both have that one (I believe).

minoru · Post by **minoru** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:50 pm

I remember sombody asking for the content of the resonator. But I can't find that thread.

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Resonator Delete. Test Fit.

Resonator Delete. Test Fit.