I have a 14 Calais v6 and want to know if it’s worth getting an exhaust

[I Wish]

Golf Mk5 R32's were a decent sounding little V6.

 

[krusing]

Simple answer

NO !

Save your money,
You will say it’s sound good for 3 months,
Until !
You will want to change after the drone it will create ! As it will be a PITA,

Don’t take my/our word for it,
Just do it/Try it,
And let us know when you have put the stock exhaust back on.

Then it will be, “ Told Ya So”

 

[krusing]

There is nothing much worse than someone trying to make a v6 sound good. I nearly break into tears every time I hear one go passed. I can only assume they want their car to sound like a v8.

Sell it and buy a v8.

I will second that,

Exactly my comment !

 

[Fu Manchu]

Some V6’s sound decent. The classic Alfa V6, the VW narrow-angle one (although the angle’s so narrow that I’m pretty sure the exhaust ports are all on the same side & maybe that’s why it sounds OK), for example. Dunno anything about that Ferrari engine … is it similar to the Giulia V6 ‘cos I’ve heard one of them drive past & it sounded like it could be reasonable (it wasn’t trying very hard at the time).

There’s always an exception to a rule but in this case, a Commodore is not one of them.

 

[NJD-1992]

Certainly comes down to preference.
But I think the issue is, a V6 will only ever sound “decent”. It could be argued that one will find no V6 that ever sounds as good as an LS, Iron Lion, Boss, Coyote, Miami, Voodoo, LT6 or any other euro V8 engine.

There’s always an exception to a rule but in this case, a Commodore is not one of them.

The only “6” that I’d argue sounds great, is horizontally opposed, straight piped, runs on leaded fuel, is air cooled, and packs a mighty 8.8L of displacement.

The mighty Lycoming 0-540 engine.

But that has a propeller in the front, and is from my past life

 

[vc commodore]

Simple answer

NO !

Save your money,
You will say it’s sound good for 3 months,
Until !
You will want to change after the drone it will create ! As it will be a PITA,

Don’t take my/our word for it,
Just do it/Try it,
And let us know when you have put the stock exhaust back on.

Then it will be, “ Told Ya So”

What'll happen is, they'll do it and come back saying it sounds killa

 

[Forg]

The only “6” that I’d argue sounds great, is horizontally opposed, straight piped, runs on leaded fuel, is air cooled, and packs a mighty 8.8L of displacement.

The mighty Lycoming 0-540 engine.

But that has a propeller in the front, and is from my past life

So does it red-line at 1000rpm, or as an alternative does it need a rebuild every 500 hours?


Maybe it's a personal-preference thing, but I do like the metallic twang of a well-built free-revving straight 6, of the variety the likes of BMW used to manufacture (maybe they still do - but most are stifled with turbochargers for emissions porpoises these days). Stuff like the 3.6 from an E34 M5.

 

[Geoff6666]

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