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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.

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

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

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

Should look pretty clean I think.

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!

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

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

Just wondering what does taking out the resonator do?

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

-Brian

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.

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.

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

Ach! I'm too slow!

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.

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

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.

What brand mug was that?

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

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:)

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).

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


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