X-Type Exhaust Upgrade
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jaxam1, a lot of members have contemplated it, but you will find that no one makes a kit for your car. So, you are looking at a complete custom kit. Secondly, going with a kit like you are talking about, you are going to get about the same gains as if you just do the Mina muffler upgrade. The muffler upgrade takes about an hour to do and you can do it in your driveway (I have installed 2 there).
As for power gains, they will be minimal as the factory system is actually pretty good and they have squeeze most of the power out that you can possibly get. can you get more, of course, but you are looking at a few horses and that is about it. Kinda pricy from my view. Granted, if you are more interested in sound than power, then by all means go for it.
You may also find that it will be a little challenging as you will need to find a shop that can do the 45 degree entrance into the muffler due to the limited space behind the rear wheels of the Jag. Impossible, by no means. Just makes the options a lot more limited.
As for power gains, they will be minimal as the factory system is actually pretty good and they have squeeze most of the power out that you can possibly get. can you get more, of course, but you are looking at a few horses and that is about it. Kinda pricy from my view. Granted, if you are more interested in sound than power, then by all means go for it.
You may also find that it will be a little challenging as you will need to find a shop that can do the 45 degree entrance into the muffler due to the limited space behind the rear wheels of the Jag. Impossible, by no means. Just makes the options a lot more limited.
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Indeed, these cars aren't exactly cheap or easy to tune.
If you are looking to enhance the exhaust sound, there are several alternatives (Adamesh, Arden, Borla, Mina Gallery, ...). I personally have experience with Adamesh and Mina Gallery.
These clips were recorded with an EOS 7D DSLR, on a non-zoom 85mm lens so the distance is practically identical.
This clip was recorded on a cell phone, placed on either the dashboard or on top of the rear bumper:
The following were not made by me.
There's one Arden clip on Youtube, just keep in mind that the Arden system costs ~2.5 times as much as the others.
Here's Borla:
If you are looking to enhance the exhaust sound, there are several alternatives (Adamesh, Arden, Borla, Mina Gallery, ...). I personally have experience with Adamesh and Mina Gallery.
These clips were recorded with an EOS 7D DSLR, on a non-zoom 85mm lens so the distance is practically identical.
This clip was recorded on a cell phone, placed on either the dashboard or on top of the rear bumper:
The following were not made by me.
There's one Arden clip on Youtube, just keep in mind that the Arden system costs ~2.5 times as much as the others.
Here's Borla:
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Oh, I just recalled this. I drove past a bus stop when leaving work one day and my colleague was on that bus stop (going in the other direction), so the day after I asked him out of curiosity what the exhaust note sounded like. He said it reminded him of a VW Golf Country! In all fairness, it's understandable as I usually use pretty low rpms, just like that time, and I was accelerating on 3rd gear from maybe 1500rpm. At such low rpms, the exhaust note of any car is of course not very well-defined (just a boom really).
So the morale of the story is; if you upgrade the exhaust and it becomes louder than original, you have to use lower gears when accelerating to make sure it sounds properly Jaguar-y to bystanders
So the morale of the story is; if you upgrade the exhaust and it becomes louder than original, you have to use lower gears when accelerating to make sure it sounds properly Jaguar-y to bystanders
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Not my video, the first three taken from the rear were mine. If you mean the snow-drifting video, the uploader commented on YouTube that he was on summer tires which means practically no traction whatsoever on snow.
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I looked for a half-wooden steering wheel for about one year before finding one. They are fairly rare, since they weren't that common in the early cars and only available as used when one is broken up for parts. They are available new, but prices are between $650 and $1000 depending on country and shop.
The difficulty wasn't finding the right colour for the leather but rather finding one with matching wood. Not just the wood grain, but the stain as well. This is something that's extremely difficult to judge by photographs since camera settings, photo editing and the display you view the photo on all distort the colour. For example, I bought a wooden ashtray lid and gear surround from an automatic, which looked like a perfect match in the photos, yet as you can see in my signature pic they are noticeably lighter in tone than the rest of the veneer in the car.
When I finally found & bought a perfectly matching one on eBay, it had black leather so I had it re-trimmed in granite leather.
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Justink, you're correct. The stock pipes on the X are 2" and the Magnaflows I bought have 2.5" intake pipe so the muffler shop made up adapters. If anyone is interested the Magnaflows I bought are model 11226. They should be 2 for $150.00. At the same time I replaced the tips with similar style to stock, but larger size.
The Mina and Borlas are on the order of double the cost or more, but they come with the tips, and will probably out last Magnaflows.
The Mina and Borlas are on the order of double the cost or more, but they come with the tips, and will probably out last Magnaflows.
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