Hey folks!

I've been browsing the forum since I purchased an F-Typ V6S in June last year. I finally registered an account to join the club.

First, I want to say this forum was tremendously helpful; every question or problem I had could be answered in a thread. Thank you to the admins for keeping this website alive in a world where social media has taken over most forums.

For the first time, I have a question that doesn't seem to have an answer, and Google can't get any results after searching on the subject.

I'm about to do a muffler delete on my Jaguar F-Type V6S. I want to try replacing the muffler with titanium pipes instead of stainless steel. I know the sound will change because of it, and I'd like to know if someone has already tried it. We will keep the steel connecting the resonator to the muffler and connect two titanium pipes and tips in place of the muffler.

What do you think will happen? Will it butcher the sound or sound as good as it did? I have always preferred a higher-pitched sound, so if it sounds more like a V8 Ferrari or closer to a V10, I'd be a happy man.

 

I have a full titanium exhaust on my car and it really doesn't sound that much different.

I'm not really sure I understand the point of the open exhaust. The factory exhaust with the valves give it what is for all intents and purposes a muffler delete.

 

A muffler delete is rarely a good thing on any gas/petrol V6 let alone an F-Type, I have never read or heard of a case where it didn't result in unbearable drone and raspiness.

 

Sounds about right, material's got little impact on exhaust note. Ti exhaust tend to use thinner material than stock steel, which will make perhaps only a slight difference in resonance. It's the exhaust design - diameters, pipe lengths, resonators, crossovers, mufflers, etc, which change exhaust note.

 

In my opinion, a real muffler delete would be about the worst thing you could do to your exhaust, short of whistle-tips. I've heard systems that are pretty much full bypass when the valves open and they're abusively loud. There are two vendors here that make replacement mufflers that might give you a sound more to your liking, VAP and Supersprint. Neither will be as inexpensive as just having some pipes fitted to replace the muffler, but they've both spent considerable time developing systems that fit well and retain the valve operation.

The "higher pitched" sound you like is dependent on the frequency of the exhaust pulses and without more cylinders, higher rpms, or both, it's not going to happen.