Stainless Steel Exhaust for the V12
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Stainless Steel Exhaust for the V12
Hey guys,
I know some of you have some stainless steel exhausts and wanted some general input...
I am ordering some stainless steel exhaust downpipes (catfree so they are available) from SNG and will be wanting a stainless system from downpipes back (btw., anyone want some original catfree downpipes? Mine are fine, apart from a small hole, and are original and have been sandblasted so are not rusty).
Bell does build exhausts, but it is 1) a PITA to get hold of someone and 2) they don't really like private customers (at least as far as I have noticed).
My wishes were not a standard XJ-S V12 setup (as you can get from SNG) but a system with NO silencers between the axles (instead a tidy looking pipe) and at the rear, instead of only 1 tailpipe each side, I would like two... To fit two standard factory tailpipes...
Does anyone have this set up? And also: can he/she recommend a place to order from? I don't want to custom bodge setup but instead a nice factory looking "tweaked" system... Diameter etc. the same, just one silencer removed and 4 instead of 2 tailpipes...
Ideas?
Cheers
Damien
I know some of you have some stainless steel exhausts and wanted some general input...
I am ordering some stainless steel exhaust downpipes (catfree so they are available) from SNG and will be wanting a stainless system from downpipes back (btw., anyone want some original catfree downpipes? Mine are fine, apart from a small hole, and are original and have been sandblasted so are not rusty).
Bell does build exhausts, but it is 1) a PITA to get hold of someone and 2) they don't really like private customers (at least as far as I have noticed).
My wishes were not a standard XJ-S V12 setup (as you can get from SNG) but a system with NO silencers between the axles (instead a tidy looking pipe) and at the rear, instead of only 1 tailpipe each side, I would like two... To fit two standard factory tailpipes...
Does anyone have this set up? And also: can he/she recommend a place to order from? I don't want to custom bodge setup but instead a nice factory looking "tweaked" system... Diameter etc. the same, just one silencer removed and 4 instead of 2 tailpipes...
Ideas?
Cheers
Damien
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Daim
SNGB sell the Bell SS exhaust system and it is superb, not noisy, and less restrictive, in my car's case when I changed it, than the OEM system.
AJ6 Engineering sell full SS versions of their own, in a number of configurations all of which are extremely good I have heard. They can be had with NO middle boxes, standard middle boxes, with small straight through middle boxes which reduce noise a bit, special downpipes, and big bore versions, as you prefer. AJ6 will explain what the performance/noise tradeoff is. AJ6 also sell just the required pipes that replace the middle boxes on an OEM system.
In real life I have only heard one car with the middle boxes removed, and it was, to my shell-like delicate ears at least, deafening!
greg
SNGB sell the Bell SS exhaust system and it is superb, not noisy, and less restrictive, in my car's case when I changed it, than the OEM system.
AJ6 Engineering sell full SS versions of their own, in a number of configurations all of which are extremely good I have heard. They can be had with NO middle boxes, standard middle boxes, with small straight through middle boxes which reduce noise a bit, special downpipes, and big bore versions, as you prefer. AJ6 will explain what the performance/noise tradeoff is. AJ6 also sell just the required pipes that replace the middle boxes on an OEM system.
In real life I have only heard one car with the middle boxes removed, and it was, to my shell-like delicate ears at least, deafening!
greg
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Daim
SNGB sell the Bell SS exhaust system and it is superb, not noisy, and less restrictive, in my car's case when I changed it, than the OEM system.
AJ6 Engineering sell full SS versions of their own, in a number of configurations all of which are extremely good I have heard. They can be had with NO middle boxes, standard middle boxes, with small straight through middle boxes which reduce noise a bit, special downpipes, and big bore versions, as you prefer. AJ6 will explain what the performance/noise tradeoff is. AJ6 also sell just the required pipes that replace the middle boxes on an OEM system.
In real life I have only heard one car with the middle boxes removed, and it was, to my shell-like delicate ears at least, deafening!
greg
SNGB sell the Bell SS exhaust system and it is superb, not noisy, and less restrictive, in my car's case when I changed it, than the OEM system.
AJ6 Engineering sell full SS versions of their own, in a number of configurations all of which are extremely good I have heard. They can be had with NO middle boxes, standard middle boxes, with small straight through middle boxes which reduce noise a bit, special downpipes, and big bore versions, as you prefer. AJ6 will explain what the performance/noise tradeoff is. AJ6 also sell just the required pipes that replace the middle boxes on an OEM system.
In real life I have only heard one car with the middle boxes removed, and it was, to my shell-like delicate ears at least, deafening!
greg
yeah, SNG sells the Bell system, they don't hide that. I will be buying the Bell downpipes, as I want a totally durable setup. Should last as long as the rest of my old Gal will live... Until it is either hit or catches fire
Haha...I forgot about AJ6 Engineering. Time to ask them some questions. I have asked SNG if I can order an altered exhaust system (as said, Bell doesn't want to answer to me) from them...
Regarding the noise: I can't go crazy with that. Oddly, German TÜV for classic cars doesn't have many limitations regarding the exhaust. You can change a few little parts... So I can go slightly aftermarket but also a little louder.
My desire is a slightly delicate "purr" in a more louder style if you know what I mean. Some more roar when hard acceleration but not loud like these fart cans many Hondas have... Something that makes a nice sound rather than just being loud... Very hard to describe. The system I built for my XJ8 is basically what I want, but more so looking original... And that means clean welds
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I had to hear a complete set of stainless steel "Bell" from SNG. I do not like this "ZUM-ZUM". And this "ZUM-ZUM" hear is not from rear. It is from under the car.
(important "ZUM-ZUM" is on the German(Deutsch)
(important "ZUM-ZUM" is on the German(Deutsch)
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Hi FWIW my v12 has extractors, no mid mufflers and has the rear mufflers and is still quiet in normal driving. under hard acceleration it sounds more like a brass band then a V8 growl. I dont think you can get a v12 to sound like an 8.
I was looking for maybe some more intake noise so I took it for a squirt without the airflters and covers - still couldnt hear it. ah well the wife likes it quiet.
I was looking for maybe some more intake noise so I took it for a squirt without the airflters and covers - still couldnt hear it. ah well the wife likes it quiet.
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Hi FWIW my v12 has extractors, no mid mufflers and has the rear mufflers and is still quiet in normal driving. under hard acceleration it sounds more like a brass band then a V8 growl. I dont think you can get a v12 to sound like an 8.
I was looking for maybe some more intake noise so I took it for a squirt without the airflters and covers - still couldnt hear it. ah well the wife likes it quiet.
I was looking for maybe some more intake noise so I took it for a squirt without the airflters and covers - still couldnt hear it. ah well the wife likes it quiet.
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Bigger intake trumpets on bigger intake tubes to the airbox, plus bigger throttle bodies (XJ40 I think will fit, Grant knows for sure) and foam high flow air filters will do the job for you!
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Sorry Daim, I do not, but it is quiet as I hate noisy cars. The intake growl at WOT is a definite aspect of the AJ6 intake mods though, which is fine to my ears. But since I have made my AJ6 cold air intake stuff actually get cold air, that has diminished too.
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cat.s are after down pipes..
I was/am most likely order the XJS GT Exhaust from driven man
sound.. use head phones... computer speaker are what they are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7F9U8GHPd4
XJS GT Stainless Steel Sport Exhaust System
this is my favorite street going system...
you just have to get him to share with us what he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJliSCVjwI
oh, A nice place to go if you get it all back together by aug.
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guess it was ok to hunker down here...