550 sports exhaust. Which one ??

[2ba 355]

I have sold my 355 with a tubi, and I am looking at a 550 maranello at the moment. I have seen some are advertised with Tubi or Larini systems. The standard car sounds so sanitised , I would want to fit a different system. Has anyone out there have experience of both systems, I would be interested to hear opinions

Thanks

[dj kam]

Hi,

I was looking at 550's a while back but ended up with a 360 instead. I heard quite a few with Tubi's and have to say it's a must on that car.

If your doing lot's of miles and want it to be little bit louder then a stage 1 (back boxes only) but if your after the full on V12 howl then stage 2 or 3 (decat / straight through).

[Blow Dog]

Just sold my 550. It had a tubi backbox only, which in my opinion is the absolute limit. The problem is the 550 has poor acoustic merit so what the tubi does is make up for it in volume.

The full exhaust system is way too much, but the backbox is fine.

[RogerB]

I have the same decision to make; spoke to Ajay at Scuderia and he recommended just the back-boxes, unless I was prepared to put up with huge amounts of noise by adding the unsilenced centre pipe as well.

Incidentally quite a big variation in price for the back-boxes (fitted) from the various agents.

[2ba 355]

Thanks for the replies. Roger what have you been quoted so far ?

I note there are 2 versions of the back box aswell, so which one, I wonder, works best ?

[RogerB]

Hmmm, Ajay didn't say anything about two different types of back box. Can you elaborate?? QV seemed the cheapest £1195+vat fitted. Anyone improve on that?? DK quoted £1050+vat but not fitted and reckoned it would be 4-6 hours fitting if you can believe that - taking the mickey or what!! Surely no more than 30 minutes work.

[2ba 355]

I spoke to Manu who was very helpful. The other backbox is louder but he said the drawback with this is a low rpm resonance that some people may dislike .

I for one will not do many miles , thus I would like it to sound nice. However if the noise is not a good one, then a being louder may may things worse. It would be good to hear 2 cars with the different systems to compare.

[tonyhopkins]

A friend has Capristo on his 550. I prefer that to the Tubi, TBH.

[F355GTS]

tony

I'd like to hear that one day!

I have the Tubi pipes not boxes, it's pretty loud outside but not too intrusive in the cabin and as said previously the boxes apparently suffer from some resonance

I'm going to investigate some middle siamese pipe bits it's said it massively improves the sound and releases a considerable amount of horsepower

interesting read
www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67031

>> Edited by F355GTS on Tuesday 23 August 18:11

[tonyhopkins]

Mark,
the car belongs to Paulm on Fchat. Capristo kit's a work of art too.

[blueunplugged]

got the tubi pipe on mine and sounds fantastic!!! made it in to a different car. Sounds fine on motorway and so good in tunnels you will be constantly searching for one.

did quite a bit of research before getting mine and best option IMO. Very easy to swap just removal of back boxes and pipes put in place.

[2ba 355]

Blueunplugged, are you saying that you have kept the original back boxes and just changed the cross over pipe to a tubi one ??

James

[blueunplugged]

no the back boxes have been replaced with the pipes. Doesn't look much for the money but well worth it once you turn it over!

[MattOz]

James,

YHPM!

Cheers
Matt