Hello, this regards a 2000 Integra GSR.

Recently my exhaust tubing rusted/broke cleanly from the very rear of my resonator after hitting a large bump on the interstate.

The break is so close to the resonator's wider/swelled circumference that traditional methods wont work to join the pipes. I was considering sliding on one of those "expanded" exhaust joints then welding the "expanded" end to the resonator and clamping/welding the other end to the broken pipe... but I am not yet sure that a welder won't simply burn holes in this old metal. Besides, this is plan B (would have to find a welder first).

PLAN A: I want to remove the resonator. It seems much easier and more likely to work. I know everyone on here says that Tegs sound like crap when the resonator is removed, but is that still true even for OEM exhaust systems? And if a straight pipe really would sound like crap, is there a cheap replacement for a resonator... such as putting one of those cheap low restriction "cherry bomb" mufflers between the OEM cat and muffler?

Just curious... I want to do it right, and want it to sound nice... but really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars for the pipe when the problem is a simple break.