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Series III 3800 intake and exhaust tips?

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2004GrandPrixGT1

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Stock 04 3800 just did tune up and planning to do a bit of minor work to the car. Has 135,000 miles. My plan was to put in a different intake, i can buy a 3' aluminum tube to replace the factory flex tubing and was thinking a spectre filter. Now one of my questions was cone size, short and fat, long and skinny? Which provides most flow. I was also planning on replacing the factory mufflers with Borla XS Pro's and removing the resonator. I know that everyone says it has to much drone but thats not really a problem for me. I was just looking fo advice on the intake and wondering what you guys have done for the exhaust.
 


Resonator not only controls the drone...it controls the rasp factor as well.

Keep it.

For your own well being.
 
I guess thats your opinion, besides, if i do decide i dont like it i can just put it back on. But otherwise you guys like the borla mufflers and spectre thoughts?
 


Not really much of an opinion.

It's a fact, just go youtube any resonator-less 3800, granted most any FWD 3800 car sounds junky...but the quieter, the better. And no rasp is always the key.
 


Search for a DIY intake. There are a lot of threads on it.
As for the exhaust, seriously go on youtube and listen to a bunch of clips and see if you find anything close to what your looking for soundwise. I have only heard 1 3800 that sounded decent.
 


Glasspack will give a deeper tone over the factory resonator.

But.

The factory resonator will keep the exhaust the quietest.
 
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