Yeah that are a bit throaty without a muffler, I recommend a Cherry Bomb Pro muffler. I love mine and it sounds badass!

 

Definitely slap a muffler on there, you'll get a great tone with one and no resonators. Listen to some sound clips, find a tone that you like. I'm a magnaflow guy.

Check out this thread, there are a bunch of Dakota sound clips.
https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen...next-week.html

 

side question/ bump... would it be a bit louder than stock if just the resonator was removed or just the muffler???

and which one would be best to remove over the other?

 

When I got my flowmaster 10 series they removed 1 resonator, it wasn't really loud so the other one came off.

 

ive ripped the mufflers and resonators off since day one with 11 miles on the truck. been like that ever since. low rumble at cruising. slight gurgle at idle. beast from hell at wide open.

since its free to unbolt your exhaust. you can see for yourself.