On the stock intake piping, would removing the resonator (that thick peice between the the intake manifold and the "pop charger") help at all with power at all? Any reason not to replace it with normal piping?

 

Nah... replaced mine a long time ago.. it made the intake twice as loud, but it didn't do squat for power. I put the resonator back on.

 

All removing the resonator does is make your intake louder. Its more of a silencer than a power blocker.

 

Cool ,thanks, that will save me some time this weekend.

 

I was thinking of removing mine and plugging it - for more "growl". Did doing this make it too noisy even at lower engine speeds?

I'm just wondering because with my popcharger you already bypass one resonator buried in the front fender and I think the car doesn't sound much different from stock if driven mildly.

 

with it removed my car sounds no different at idle

but at WOT its F'ing LOUD

 

How about at highway speeds (~2500 rpm)?

Unless you have "digital" driving habits? (On/Off only?)

 

it's just like the cut-off muffler.... no big deal. just moar noise.

 

I took all of that out, and you can hear my intake REALLY well! lol Almost too loudly. But, I like it like that and it gives a nice growl to my new Civic cat-back exhaust on there.