550 high pitch headers

How much are they?

 

Where was that driving on the left side of the road with snow piled everywhere? Scotland or New Zealand?

 

Hearing that is like seeing Shawshank for the first time, all over again...

BRAVO!!!!!!!!

 

This is what they should sound like from the factory albeit a little less db.

 

Absolutely awesome sound !!

 

Japan maybe?


Great sound. I wonder what they cost...anyone?
Philip

 

Is it really the headers or no cats, no mid muffler, no aft mufflers? It seems very loud for a muffled 550.

 

Japan, yes (see title on video)….or, the labyrinth of tunnels under Gotham City maybe…..

Dude can't shift worth s**t either…..

I'll take a set tho!

 

FBB you make a good point. How exactly was the sound achieved? What would it sound like if only the headers were to be installed? As I stated prior, love the sound but its too loud.

 

On a 550, no precats, no problem. On a 575M, precats and a big pain in the neck.

 

Looks like great workmanship, great sounding product but commercial? Perhaps a personal view, but I wonder how many people will put 15-20% of the car's value into an exhaust system....

 

Sounds awesome. Like a F12 berlinetta.
No f'ing way I'm spending 13K on something like that. Sorry.

 

WOW at that price I'm liking my existing system more and more. My exhaust is stock minus the Tubi mufflers and the factory center resonator delete.

 

Sounds like the F50 in the video at Reims.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zgo6TUNvw]Ferrari 550 race car launching - YouTube[/ame]

 

Now that, ladies and gentlemen is loud.

I am guessing the heads could be made up for $4-5k, depending on metal. Agree with Terry though, what to do about precats?

 

Agree, an X pipe and a decent set of rear boxes will get you awesome sound for a third of the price. You won't need earplugs either.

 

Exhaust note doesn't mean all that much to me, at least not at this price.

Now, if somebody could come up with a way to make a 550 sound like the chains, valve train and Webers of an early Ferrari V12....

 

Something like this?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OqjGsgr2sk]Ferrari 250 Testa rossa//Overtaking music ????? ?????? - YouTube[/ame]

 

Great sound. But I think an active or two higher to get the higher pitched shriek is the demand, no?

 

For way less than that price (~$9-10K), you can buy a complete carbon fiber interior from Ferrari for a 575M. Does not make her sound any better, but...

You can make a 550 or 575M as loud as you want with stock headers and cats, straight center pipes, and a very low restriction muffler. Novitecs and straight center pipes will wake the dead on a 550 or 575M. 90 mm tailpipes and you can see straight through the muffler looking down the center pipes. Without valves, nothing coming out of those outer pipes.

Do have to admit, I like the high pitched scream of that Maranello, though, and the Japanese seem to be the best at doing that, even if the driver was letting the passenger shift for him.

 

Right, FBB. I've learned that headers alone do not make the exhaust sound louder. Mufflers control how loud the exhaust note is. In our case, we have center resonators and rear mufflers which can be changed in various combinations to adjust the sound level.

Generally, headers have longer tubes than stock exhaust manifolds and deepen the pitch of the exhaust note. This is analogous to a wind instrument like a flute. The high notes are achieved by allowing air pulses to escape through holes closest to the mouth hole. The low notes are obtained by allowing air to escape through holes further down the body of the instrument.

Headers are made of stainless steel which will impart a "ring" to the exhaust note.

I'm curious to know what other components make up the Technical Garage Sasaki exhaust system. Does it include center straight pipes or X-pipes? What do the rear mufflers look like? Are they valved or not?

Here's an article I found about this system added to a Mercedes-Benz S 600 W220:

This Mercedes-Benz S 600 W220 Sounds Like an F1 Car From the 1990s [Video] - Mercedes Silver Arrows

It looks like they used the same tunnel in those YouTube videos.