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after helping my friend install his axle-back portion of his exhaust system on his integra, i decided to take a gander under my car, just out of curiosity. first of all, i was suprised at seeing the stock resonator (looked like a can-type... do they call them that?). it was actually a lot bigger than i thought; ive always thought that exhaust resonators were just all the same, like the bullet-type ive seen on a lot of cars. anyways, my other friend (with a civic) ripped off his stock exhaust resonator (yeah, its loud, too loud for my taste) and is running resonator-less back to the stock muffler. i suggested him getting another one, maybe the bullet-type to quiet the tone down, but he said that he wanted sound with the stock muffler (......).

now, simplyout of my own curiosity, are the canister-type exhaust resonators designed to suppress the exhaust note more than the bullet type? if my friend were to install a bullet-type in place of the removed stock one, would the tone still be louder than stock but not as freakishly annoying as it is now?

 
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that sounds correct dude. but the best way to go is a cat-back. has all that stuff in one kit. piping, resonator, and muffler. and it will sound better than peicing one together too.

 
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aite. but has anyone ever done stomething liek this (swapping out resonators for differnt type)?

any other ideas? i think with my friend just removing his exhaust resonator, he wouldnt wanna go full catback haha, we hella cheap!

 
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i swapped my bullet resonator for a baffle resonator. they both look the same but the baffle is much quieter. i don't know what the inside if the baffle one looks like but the bullet one has fins on the inside.

 
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^^ baffle, as in the canister kind we have stock?

 
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eh, never mind, saw that they were the same.

so in answering my question (rather, my friend's question), it wouldnt sound like crap if the canister-type was replaced with a bullet type, now would it? but, it WOULD be louder/deeper, blah blah blah?