I’ve looked around and people are saying that mid section delete will create a more raspy farting sound? Have you taken out your mid section muffler before on v8 ? Do u have a video of sound?
I haven't had a VE V8 for years so no I don't sorry, I just do a lot of exhausts.
Anything you do to the existing xforce exhaust will make it louder, but louder doesn't always = better.
Removing the mid section will add rasp yes. But thats better than removing the rear section and getting drone. As others have said as well swapping from an X Pipe to a H pipe crossover will give you a better note too.
Also make sure your not misinterpreting my advice, when I say remove the mid section I'm not referring to your crossover pipe (which might be where your getting comments about rasp/fart online) I'm saying your mid mufflers if you have them. You need an exhaust cross over whether it's an X or a H otherwise it will sound like a turd.
If you want that really deep burble, you generally get that with a twin 3" on these engines not twin 2.5 But once again an Xforce exhaust I'd not even put on my lawnmower so your never going to get a quality sound from it, you can make it better but it's never going to be amazing.
If you want to stick with twin 2.5" and have a good overall note and also some volume go something like a Manta twin 2.5" exhuast or twin 3" exhaust with extractors and high flow cats.
If your running the stock cast iron manifolds that won't be helping your exhaust note either, a good set of extractors will bring out each exhaust pulse a lot cleaner.
