Intake Resonator Removal

by **SirMacDaddy** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:02 pm

I just recently purchased a 2001 Solara V6 5 speed and i am pretty surprised with its abilities. I also own a 3.2 TL Type S and one thing that i did to it was remove the intake resonator. I was wondering if i should do the same to the solara or should i just leave it. Also, i was wondering if there is a site or a post i should look at to see exactly how to take it out. I have been searching for a while and still cant find a post that tells me exactly how to do this...any reply is greatly appreciated granted that i am noob.

Thanks

by **jbright** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:18 pm

Same here! I have read several posts about people taking them out... but I went out today to take mine out and I couldn't even find one. It looks like the hole in the bottom of the intake box leads directly to a tube directly behind the driver's side headlight. I didn't expect this. I was under the impression that the resonator was at the end of the tube...

Can someone give us some detail on this? Thanks!

by **Hsakuragi** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:36 pm

search buddy....

by **jbright** » Thu May 19, 2005 8:37 pm

Already have ... buddy

Best I have seen is remove plastic wheel well cover and then remove resonator... no details.

by **CASTRO** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:27 pm

hahah, search once again. I did it a while ago and even back then there was about 3-5 threads that were detailed on how to do it. search real good and you might find my thread asking the same exact thing. ... buddy lol

by **ptorican-king** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:43 pm

http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php? ... =resonator

this is just one of them i did the search and atleast 4 more showed up
i used this threat do do mine

by **StockSolara** » Fri May 20, 2005 12:15 am

Just open up the splash guard under the car and take off three nuts and its out

by **SirMacDaddy** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:49 pm

Just after posting this thread, i just went out to the car and just started going at it...what i had to do was take off the driver-side wheel and then take of the plastic wheel well cover, and then once you got that off, (which takes a little bit to get enough off to fully see the resonator, you see a white box, to the left of the roater. unboalt two boalts and then your done. it should just slide out. once you got it out, put everything back and your done. it sounds really nice i think especially with a k&n drop in filter...

by **methyl mike** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:40 pm

Yeah but do you get any performance gains from removing it?

by **Mandarinsolara** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:04 pm

just remove the whole intake assembly

jk, dont

by **SleeperSolara** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:59 pm

methyl mike wrote:Yeah but do you get any performance gains from removing it?

Kind of.
Sounds like an CAI, when you gun it.

by **RichD978** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:49 pm

Mandarinsolara wrote:just remove the whole intake assembly

jk, dont

only an idiot would do that right stewart?!? lolz jk bro...

by **Mole** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:56 pm

methyl mike wrote:Yeah but do you get any performance gains from removing it?

nope. if you do, then i say .01 hp at most.

by **boneezy** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:12 am

its a placebo for the butt dyno. you THINK there is an increase. but its nothing. just get an injen w/ cai extension if u want to mod ur intake

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