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Originally Posted by dannyzabolotny
Yeah, I see a lot of people chopping their X5 resonators out and replacing them with X-pipes. This is weird to me because in the E38/E39 world, chopping out the resonator means awful drone and loss of torque. Everybody in the E38/E39 world just does a muffler delete, so I thought about doing that on the X5 since the exhaust system isn't too different. I want a low grumble that's loud enough to bother people, but not so loud that I can't comfortably daily drive with it. I'm not really looking for subtle, I'm 24 and I want to be a little obnoxious while I can still get away with it 
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The middle resonator is just a big muffler. Many have changed this component out with a magna flow x pipe thus giving the X5 a tone adjustment without drone. The middle resonator has a lot of sound packing in it and does cross the two streams of exhaust flow. So putting an x-pipe in place eliminates the packing thus increasing the tone of the OE muffler system without the drone. I would try this first before hacking any other section of the exhaust system. I would not cut off the rear mufflers. If you can find a Dinan exhaust now that is something deep sound and nice bark at wide open throttle but civil during daily around town driving.