Repairing my muffler on a 2002 Gt. I will never re sell my car and I was told I can remove the resonator. The issue I am facing is that I have a hole in a section of pipe behind it which bolted to the rest of the remaining pipe. 6 inch attached pipe behind it. I was thinking of cutting it after the cat n put a straight pipe n new pipe to the end mufflers.
So with removing the resonator will it still pass emissions testing and will it be louder???

I live in Ontario Canada...as we have emissions testing every 2 yrs.

Any help would be great. Tks.