To Resonate or Not Resonate, that is the question.

[SkinGripz]

Hey all,

Putting the Cherry Bomb Extreme 3" In/Out at end of the week. Question is, should I delete the resonators or not?

Dont really know exactly what they do (yes, know what Google says they do), how they will effect the sound, and if deleting them will cause any ill issues with anything else.

if I kill them, will basically have them cut out, and straight pipe where they were. Muffler is going bye-bye for the Cherry Bomb Extreme 3/3 to the stock single tip.

Thoughts appreciated, beer appreciated more, sex (pm me).....

thanks,

mike

 

[06 H3]

Zach can offer up the grease gun for the last option...:hans:

from what I have read the resonator delete will just give a louder exhaust and some more drone, thats why I havent done it but I know many have.

 

[bebe]

I swapped positions on mine. Put the muffler in the front (a new Magnaflow) and the resonator in the back. All stainless tubing too.

I didn't want to risk a nasty droning sound that would drive me nuts.

 

[SkinGripz]

Thanks guys.

think i will have the cherry installed and see how I like it. If I want more volume, go back and have the resonators cut out.

Have a feeling from watching youtube videos, that the things gonna sound mean as hell either way.

Love it when a plan comes together...

 

[Bigunit]

Any way you can post before & after sound videos to hear the true difference?

 

[SkinGripz]

Yeah. Will try to do that.

Will get a "Before" iphone video today, and hope to have installed either friday or monday.

 

[08H3]

I hope you get the sound you want from it. Personally (and it's only that-- my opinion), I don't think there is anything in the world you can do to the 5cyl to make it sound good. Every setup I have ever heard has sounded like some weird amalgam of some little Honda 4 cylinder and a diesel tractor. I have only owned one other vehicle in my entire life that wasn't a V-8, so maybe I'm just a little biased.

 

[alrock]

One thing to consider along the lines of what Bebe has said - if you put the muffler where the resonator is, and you later remove the resonator, you've got a nice space at the back for a compressor, tank, etc. Gibson's exhaust setup deletes the resonator and puts the muffler up front. And yes, there's a drone but I've had it for the past six years and it's no worse than the other noises in my head.

 

[SkinGripz]

08H3- Got the Alpha baby !

Wifes 07 H3 is a 5cyl. and have a Flowmaster 44 on it. sounds good, but 5cyl good. I got the H3T Alpha cause pappa needs a little more giddy-up in his hitch...

not knocking the 5cyl owners or machines, but have not spoke with any that dont agree 5cyls for a 5,000 pound truck is a bit lean.

 

[SkinGripz]

......it's no worse than the other noises in my head.

I take medication for that. Still hear the voices, but at least the doctors let me out to play now...

 

[twinmill28]

I didn't want to risk a nasty droning sound that would drive me nuts.

Yeah, what Beber's said......

We ran our 3 a couple of years with Cherry Bomb/no resonater. It's a love it and hate it sort of thing.

I loved it for short trips up the road to the grocery store or to work. I hated it for road trips from Utah to Colorado---it will drive you insane. I towed a trailer thru the mountains with it---oh man that sucked.

I loved taking it to the dealer in Salt Lake, they had a huge (and I mean HUGE) inside service area--drive it into the building, park just inside and leave it for the service manager. I'd go inside and have a burger at Iceburg cafe and get a good laugh every time I heard the service advisor start it up to drive it back put it in a work bay.

Probably the best laugh I got out of the Cherry Bomb set-up was when I couldn't drive to pick up the new H2, I was assed out at work and could not break away. I paid an extra $600 and had the dealer send a driver with the new deuce and then pick up the 3. Since they didn't have a trailer big enough for the deuce, the guy drove it 6 hours from Colorado to Utah, then picked up the 3. It still makes me laugh to think how comfortable the ride was for him in the deuce, then to turn around and jump in the 3 and drive it thru all the mountains 6 hours back with those damn Cherry Bombs resonating his teeth out!

 

[08H3]

Sometimes it keeps me up at night, wondering why John Wayne walked that way...:whaa:

2007 H3 - 2006 Maserati Quattroporte - 2010 F-450 - 2009 H3T

I based my comment on the 2007 from your sig. I guess I didn't see your T, only the '07. That should sound pretty sweet!

 

[SkinGripz]

Took before and after videos, but the before keeps saying "cannot be read" for some reason. Here is the UTube link for the after with a Cherry Bomb Extreme installed.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vYNm9SUV_j8&desktop_uri=/watch?v=vYNm9SUV_j8

OEM was simply cut out and the Cherry Bomb Extreme (plus two feet of pipe, as it's much shorter) was welded in place. Cats kept, resonators kept, stock tubing/tip kept. Simple muffler swap.

Sorry for the wind, it's like that all the time here. Try landing a Cessna 172 with a direct crosswind of 25 knots. Somebody say slip and pray?? :whaa:

 

[Azjohn]

That sounds great! Thanks for the post and the video.