I've had my 10' jaguar xf 5.0 N/A v8 for some months now and wanted to do a little experiment regarding the exhaust system. I wanted to take off the mufflers and replace it with pipping to see how it will sound but I wanted to know if there is any drone or anything else I should be worried about before doing so. I am planning on doing it myself and yes i have all the tools and needed to do this. So please, tell me whatever you know!

 

I have the N/A V8 XF as well. Shortly after buying it I took it to a friend mechanic who installed straight pipe and left the respnators in. It has an Xpipe from a corvette that fit nicely. On idle, an light cruising it sounds quiet an tame with an audible purr. Once romped on its very loud, snapping growl and gets EVERYONE excited around me lol. With windows up, there is terrible drone on accelerate and deceleration between 1900-2300 RPM. Roll the two front windows down and it disappears and is manageable. The cabin is pretty good on sound proofing from the exhaust. I had the windows tinted, and the dumb ***** that did it removed all door panels. So now in that drone, a minor squeak comes from that, but I think I just need to reinstall the door panels and hope that fixes it.
Honest to god, the sound that comes from that engine is worth the drone.