Has anyone removed the resonators from their F60 yet to make a bit more sound? If so, what's your experience like?

 

Not me. It might be difficult to weld or clamp in a bridge pipe for the resonator given it appears there is very little pipe length connecting the resonator to the cat ahead of it (based on the JCW exhaust drawing I saw). Generally, removing a resonator sets you up for annoying/intolerable 'drone' inside the cabin--never a good thing. I'd be happy with an axle-back exhaust to replace that ginormous rear muffler.

 

Well I spent some time over in this forum's 'JCW Garage' and it seems resonator delete works fine (a no-drone mod) on the Mini's discussed there. Great news for a cheap ($100 or so) mod! Other stuff I learned there was that we have Active Sound Design (ASD) that augments Sport mode by piping exhaust sound through the car's speakers. Still wrapping my head around the morality of artificially amped engine sounds though. There apparently is also an air flap in the air box that opens in Sport to amplify intake roar (I think when open it bypasses a resonator chamber built in the air box). Now I better understand what a pure JCW edition is intake-exhaust wise, the best of the three personalities (Minimalism-Balanced-Sport). I just coded all startups in Sport and makes life more pleasurable. Will be doing a bit more research before visiting the muffler shop for the resonator-delete.

 

I would very much like to code out the artificial sound!

 

Accessible via the ASD_01 Active Sound Design ECU page in Bimmercode.

 

Somewhere, I saw a widget that physically plugged inline to the audio harness that eliminated the "fake" exhaust sound without throwing codes, but can't for the life of me find the link. Might be helpful if you don't code.

 

Technic PNP offers it for $55.

But a cheap VGate OBD2 adapter and BimmerCode will run you less than $45, and if that's all you're doing you don't even need to "code" - just flip the ASD switch in BimmerCode's easy mode and call it a day.

 

Hi, All.

So had the resonator removed. A very very small difference. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone.

Cheers,
Joey

 

Thanks for posting your experience! It is very helpful to the rest of us considering the resonator delete mod.

 

No worries! I'm not too upset about it. The guy only charged me 60 bucks so not a big deal. It was worth the try.

 

Hey Malx, can you see through the resonator, are there any restrictions in it all? Just straight through ?

Thanks, have a good one!

 

Sorry but I am not sure. I didn't do the work.