| Message: | | do you mean making the exhaust noise louder? What you hear at low idling speed will be tripled at high engine speeds. The XJ-6 was designed to be quiet at high engine speeds, so if you eliminate the two front mufflers, you eliminate the quiet. If you decide to install a Big Bore exhaust system, (very expensive), it will only get louder at high engine rpm, and it seems to me that is what you want to avoid?
My 1965 Jaguar S type has 3 (three) mufflers and 2 (two) rear resonators, and it is still loud. I replaced the entire system front to back with a shiny stainless steel system made in the UK by Bell Silencers, and was I in for a surprise, it sounds loud like a sports Jaguar, even with 5 silencers. And yet the XJ-6 is quiet even though I eliminated the cats by replacing them with Euro catless pipes.
In the XJ-6, I matched the front mufflers at an auto parts store, found new-old-stock rear resonators, and the rest of the pipes were either reused or replaced with Euro pipes. All those pipes were coated by Jet-Hot Coatings with their "Sterling" coating to eliminate exhaust temperature excess. I think it helps lower the noise a bit.
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