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Old 01-15-2010, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by rocky1536 View Post
If the exhaust is less restrictive you could be creating a rich environment (assuming you aren't somehow also getting more air to the motor) which could throw off gas mileage. The computer does compensate to an extend, but I'm skeptical of it ability to match a removed resonator..

That being said, I'd be surprised if removing the resonator would create measurable more flow...
That was true before ECM's ran the system. You'd have to do a lot more than switch the exhaust pipes on a X5 to make it run rich. And if it did, there is another issue.
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