http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aobv28J-smk&feature=player_embedded
YES it will. I did not spot this video before, thanks for posting Peter That's me early this year at Zandvoort with 4 fresh TRX tyres...........
I wonder who has got the most 400 videos on his YT-channel? Hmmmmm, who might that be? Anyway Ranger and Ashman, you guys should post some too
Ahhh, I should see about getting some video of my car and the sounds that it makes. I've had guys with $6,000 exhaust systems on their 400i's compliment me on the sound that they hear by following my car. My exhaust is about as simple as it can be: I have removed the center exhausts/cats and run straight pipes back to the stock resonators/mufflers at the rear. It saves a ton of weight, runs cooler without the cats underneath me and the rear mufflers seem to keep the sound at manageable levels without being too loud, especially with the windows closed. It is probably about the same sound level as the 400i that I drove with a Tubi. The note is somewhat different but the overall sound level is the same. I like it.
Sounds like a great mod as i guess you just got some stainless straight pipe pretty cheap done at a exhaust place?. mine has had a replacement stainless system but with the centre boxes but i would like some more noise!
Actually when I brought the car to Connecticut in 1998 it didn't have cats on it, which were required for emissions testing. I had Dick Fritz at Amerispec (one of the more active Federalizers of 400is back in the 80's) install new cats. The car always sailed through emissions with the new cats but they made the car too quiet for my taste. Included in the price were fabricated "test pipes" just in case <cough> I wanted to take the car on the track. I could swap the cats out for the "test pipes" and vice versa in about 45 minutes and usually installed the "test pipes" right after returning from the emissions testing station, just in case <another cough> I ever got a last minute invitation to track the car. The car became exempt from emissions testing at 25 years old in 2009 and the cats have been resting comfortably in a cabinet in my garage ever since!
My guess would be... Yes, but keep it in a lower gear (rather than D) + (depending on the drift speed/25 mph vs. 80 mph) to keep it from shifting up to the next gear.
These babies possess a mild understeer that's very controllable/enjoyable at just about any speed (haven't had the where for all at its upper limits) & if you feel it's out of your capability, a lift off won't send you skirting off the pavement.
They say "Ferrari" on them. I don't know if they are original to the car, but they could be. I bought the car with 22K miles on it and it had spent its first 15 years in Texas and southern California. After another 16K miles under my ownership, they are still solid.
Wow, so Ferrari made exhaust systems? I'd say yours is original! That puts my Ansa as the second exhaust which is shot right now...@ 26,700 mi. Am going w/straight pipes to rear silencers as well, it's finding those chrome tips at the rear that's difficult. Any ideas on that anyone??
Your F was parked outside my house about 11 years ago with a bit of a flat if I'm not mistaken . Also in Zandvoort, opposite the big parking area where slotemakers 'acedemy' is now...
Here's a couple of pictures of the resonator from my files taken a few years ago. In looking at the pictures more closely, I see that there is a "Ferrari" label tack welded onto the bottom side of the resonator (first picture) but there also is a faintly visible "Ansa" label stamped on the side (second picture). Oh, and I am embarrassed to say that I was mistaken in saying that all of the mufflers ahead of the rear resonators have been removed, it is just the cats that have been replaced with straight pipes. There are still one bank of mufflers ahead of the rear resonators. Must be old timer's disease! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My God, that was lame. I'm all for big stupid fun but that was just wrong. So much for the dignity of a grand tourer.
