Mine is getting its VAP quad exhaust next week, and I will get the VAP tune and pulley done at the same time (initially more for sound than power but 450hp does sound pretty good). I'm going to stick a "S" badge on the back (currently debadged) in case someone thinks I am trying to pretend it is an R.

 

There's no winning that battle.

Last week I told a (materialistic, status-conscious) friend that I'd de badged my v6s. He replied "Don't people usually do that so no one knows they only got the base model?". LOL

 

Bruce, the Unhingd Aussie!

 

I debadged my S ages ago (still has the grill badge though) and I don't give a damn as absolutely no-one here in South Oz would have the foggiest idea of the differences between a base F-Type and an S.
That said I wouldn't mind sticking a "450" badge on the **** end just to cause a few to scratch their heads, do some research and come up blank!

Edit - just found the perfect stick on badges on Fleabay, ordered!

 

One of my partners at work had an Audi A5 diesel 6 (dreadful, unreliable car) which had the full s line pack so it looked great and was debadged. Anyway a fellow waffles up to him at the gym and remarks on how nice the car is, my partner says "yeah, it's an RS-5". The fellow stares at him for 10 seconds and says "mate, I think I've got news for you..."

I am keen not to have a repeat of that...

 

"Australia is entirely peopled with criminals" -- Vizzini

 

Inconceivable!

 

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

 

Hey, easy there. My Aussie cousin I haven't seen in 50 years just visited with her husband. Both born in the land down under. Neither one was a criminal (unless they are escaping to USA to avoid capture).

 

2:00

 

That's precisely the kind of thing a criminal would say.

P.S. Any day I can quote "The Princess Bride" is just a little bit better for it.

 

My Aussie cousin also happens to be of 100% Sicilian heritage.

 

Back on topic, another performance upgrade is the optional auxiliary radiator fitted on hot climates, thinking about installing it on my V6S.

A $450 upgrade: https://parts.jaguarpalmbeach.com/a/...D/4760077.html

 

I believe that’s the standard intercooler radiator. I have one on my V6S.

 

I would like a better IC and pump. Unhingd, do you know if there are bolt-on upgrades? I read somewhere that early XKRs had a better parts. Is this true?

 

Perhaps a better question would be what don’t you have on your car? Never mind, don’t answer that...the list might be too long. You’re not Unhingd for nothing.

 

Depends on which part you are talking about.
In the second graphic part # 3 is the SC intercooler radiator and part # 4 (which lies horizontal not vertical) is the auxiliary (engine coolant) radiator fitted only to "hot climate" market F-Types. Engine cooling only, nothing to do with the SC.
Quote from the Workshop Manual: "The auxiliary radiator is connected in parallel with the (main) radiator to increase the engine cooling capacity on hot climate market vehicles."
I don't remember seeing this part on my F-Type, and on my travails through XF and XFR coolant systems I remember reading that in JLR speak "hot climate" means pretty much the Middle East and nowhere else and Oz is not considered "hot climate". Never mind that it often gets to 110 F plus where I am in Adelaide, go figure!

 

The new P300 XE looks to have that intercooler directly behind the vent on the left hand side as you face it. You can see it from in front of the car. No wonder it isnt laggy.

 

Bruce,
What you can see is more likely to be an auxiliary engine coolant radiator and not a turbo intercooler radiator.
Both of my XFs had an auxiliary engine coolant radiator in the same place.
My guess is the XE P300 four-potter turbo intercooler radiator is in the same place as the the F-Type SC intercooler radiator - smack in the middle in front of the main engine radiator.

 

I could open the bonnet and look, but I tend to leave the engine bay a mystery until the second year of ownership.