Ouch! But is this thing really necessary? Photo

[pwogaman]

My center muffler, or resonator is rusting through and I fear beyond any hope of repair. The best price I have found so far on a replacement is $202.68. But just how important is the resonator - has anybody by-passed it and with what results?

My forward pipe was also failing but I was able to cut out and replace the hole with $20.00 of parts from the local store.

This will be my first attempt attaching a picture so bear with me if it takes a couple of times.

I just noticed an error message that the file is too big. I will edit it and reduce its size and try again shortly.