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Sep 11, 2012 | 05:36 PM

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If u went with the turbo back akrapovic, u would be one of the few to have their full system like me and I believe onefish. It's definitely a great exhaust and u will get a ton of people complimenting you on the sound and looks (cf tips) of the exhaust system.

any CEL issues?

Sep 11, 2012 | 05:39 PM

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Like most of the DP's for the MINI, you'll get a CEL.

Sep 11, 2012 | 06:34 PM

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Like ALL of the DP's for the MINI, you'll get a CEL.

Fixed it for ya.

Sep 11, 2012 | 06:41 PM

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Like the way this one sounds

Sep 21, 2012 | 07:48 AM

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Nice! Now if you could just get the guy to drive on the right side of the road, it'd be perfect!

Sep 29, 2012 | 07:35 PM

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What's involved in deleting the resonator - looks like a lot of people are picking up the Invidia and deleting the resonator. Does that mean they need to cut out the middle pipe and replace it with a straight pipe, or should the shop be able to just cut off the resonator?

Sep 29, 2012 | 07:51 PM

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You need to go to a shop and they will cut out the resonator and replace it with a straight pipe.

I did this and drove about 100yd before I turned around to have the shop put the resonator back on. The exhaust was embarrassingly loud without the resonator. It wasn't a good loud either, it reminded me of a 2001 Nissan Altima ricer with a giant fart canon on the rear. It sounded just terrible.

I have an Akrapovic DP so that may have been a small contributing factor in the volume and tone but I would never try the resonator delete without some other type of muffler replacing the OEM one.

Sep 30, 2012 | 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by calforhelp

I have an Akrapovic DP so that may have been a small contributing factor in the volume and tone.

Oh yeah that is the reason. I ended up replacing my resonator with a 12 inch one and got a nice balance.

Sep 30, 2012 | 04:28 AM

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Q300 with resonator delete...sounds so burbly. Here is my car on the dyno recently. Great sounding setup under load.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prU...e_gdata_player

Last edited by Dr.Fox; Sep 30, 2012 at 04:35 AM.