Vibrant resonators

[Adamone92]

Mine are being done tomorrow. They are a tad smaller than yours..

Let us know what you think!

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[Dave2013M3]

Just got back from the muffler shop, all welded in. It helped a lot. These are small race mufflers, it totally helped with it being trumpety and high rpm rasp. Had a small exhaust leak from behind the Borla Switchfire. Fixed that as well.

 

[DRKHORS]

Seems to be a popular spot for locating the resonators. Here's my 2.5" vibrants installed on my FRPP Borla Sport with O/R long tubes located on the back of my Steed x-pipe. They are wonderful for reducing the rasp and taking so many of the harsh tones out of the exhaust. Love them so much I ended up replacing my factory resonator on my F150 with a longer version of this one after the Magnaflow MF cat-back I installed was too quiet...

 

[Dave2013M3]

Seems to be a popular spot for locating the resonators. Here's my 2.5" vibrants installed on my FRPP Borla Sport with O/R long tubes located on the back of my Steed x-pipe. They are wonderful for reducing the rasp and taking so many of the harsh tones out of the exhaust. Love them so much I ended up replacing my factory resonator on my F150 with a longer version of this one after the Magnaflow MF cat-back I installed was too quiet...

Looks good, I had issue with removing the factory heat shields in that area though. Thats why I went with the smaller race bullit mufflers.

 

[Jordan @ Lethal]

Seems to be a popular spot for locating the resonators. Here's my 2.5" vibrants installed on my FRPP Borla Sport with O/R long tubes located on the back of my Steed x-pipe. They are wonderful for reducing the rasp and taking so many of the harsh tones out of the exhaust. Love them so much I ended up replacing my factory resonator on my F150 with a longer version of this one after the Magnaflow MF cat-back I installed was too quiet...

Good stuff! It's pretty awesome that there's this option to help make our obnoxious cars a bit more palpable for ourselves and the world at large.

 

[Torinate]

yeah i havent noticed any signs of leaking, the weld job seems pretty solid as far as that goes. I figure if it ends up becoming a problem, i can find something to replace it or get smaller ones welded in at that point.

the sound is much better. its pretty quiet at idle or at low rpms, but still pretty loud and sounds good when im getting on it. I dont notice any drone anymore which i will appreciate when i drive across country soon for my training.

Looks great!

My plan may be similar to yours. Put in cat deletes but I will need some resonators to tone everything down. I have AWE Touring and love it. But I’m thinking with the deletes it may be too much. Did you notice an overall reduction in sound volume or just got rid of rasp and drone? I’m hoping that the resonators will decrease the increase in volume with the cat deletes. Hopefully a reasonable trade off.
What do you think?

 

[Adamone92]

Looks great!

My plan may be similar to yours. Put in cat deletes but I will need some resonators to tone everything down. I have AWE Touring and love it. But I’m thinking with the deletes it may be too much. Did you notice an overall reduction in sound volume or just got rid of rasp and drone? I’m hoping that the resonators will decrease the increase in volume with the cat deletes. Hopefully a reasonable trade off.
What do you think?

it reduced sound volume considerably, rasp, and drone. Even on startup it is much more quiet now. If that's what you are looking for, then itll for sure do that.

Ive been told they have a break in period, so idk what the final result is yet if that's true, but so far it has done that for my setup

 

[Jordan @ Lethal]

Yeah I'm curious to see if you've noticed much difference in the sound after a bit more time. Let's see what kind of difference there is.

 

[Dave2013M3]

As my photos showed, I didn't do the Vibrant resonators. I went with small bullet race mufflers from Total Flow. It did an amazing job in cleaning up the way the car sounds. There is still some rasp but at a much more acceptable level. I actually like a little rasp, gives it that clean high tech sound. Before the TotalFlows the car was just loud and obnoxious above 4k rpm. The issue I had with the Vibrants is they didn't make a 2.5" that was small just 12" long which makes it more difficult to mount somewhere.

 

[Adamone92]

As my photos showed, I didn't do the Vibrant resonators. I went with small bullet race mufflers from Total Flow. It did an amazing job in cleaning up the way the car sounds. There is still some rasp but at a much more acceptable level. I actually like a little rasp, gives it that clean high tech sound. Before the TotalFlows the car was just loud and obnoxious above 4k rpm. The issue I had with the Vibrants is they didn't make a 2.5" that was small just 12" long which makes it more difficult to mount somewhere.

The total flow seems like a great option as well that i wasnt aware of prior to buying my vibrant.

 

[Dave2013M3]

The total flow seems like a great option as well that i wasnt aware of prior to buying my vibrant.

Not to mention they are 309 stainless and half the cost.

 

[FruityJudy]

Looks great!

My plan may be similar to yours. Put in cat deletes but I will need some resonators to tone everything down. I have AWE Touring and love it. But I’m thinking with the deletes it may be too much. Did you notice an overall reduction in sound volume or just got rid of rasp and drone? I’m hoping that the resonators will decrease the increase in volume with the cat deletes. Hopefully a reasonable trade off.
What do you think?

After they break in they dont reduce volume much. I would consider a tru-x if you are looking to do that

 

[Adamone92]

After they break in they dont reduce volume much. I would consider a tru-x if you are looking to do that

So itll get louder again? Thats interesting.

I dont mind it getting more volume..im happy as long as the rasp and drone are gone..but still.

 

[Jordan @ Lethal]

As my photos showed, I didn't do the Vibrant resonators. I went with small bullet race mufflers from Total Flow. It did an amazing job in cleaning up the way the car sounds. There is still some rasp but at a much more acceptable level. I actually like a little rasp, gives it that clean high tech sound. Before the TotalFlows the car was just loud and obnoxious above 4k rpm. The issue I had with the Vibrants is they didn't make a 2.5" that was small just 12" long which makes it more difficult to mount somewhere.

Great info to consider when making the decision not only if resonators are something you may want but location as well. I'm glad to hear both options have satisfactory results too. Cheers

 

[AdrianMAK]

This has become popular with our race pipes lately. They work much better in the pipe towards the front than in the rear from what we have seen. Keep in mind that your muffler selection will play a big part in this as well. We have welded them in towards the rear of the catback on Corsa Extremes, and they do not make much of a sound difference, they do help kill some rasp, if you are after that. If anyone has any questions please feel free to shoot us a PM.

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