My 612 build

Congrats man!!

 

You will love the Fabio exhaust.

 

Will there be check engine light after installing 599 MAF?

Or just plug and play, no need for ecu tune?

 

You definitely need the ECU tuned. Pinging @sammyf @360trev . The 612 map was done for the restricted MAF, going to the 599 MAF will cause fuel/air mixture to be off.

I had my ECU tuned and upgraded to the 599 MAF. 100% worth it.

@vegasviper awesome build! I will some day pull the trigger on the exhaust, jealous!

 

As great as that car looks, and now sounding and working! even stronger - and your way - well done VV. Congrats and enjoy.

 

@vegasviper Brother it was a pleasure working with you on this set of HRE wheels and tires.

Fitment is on point! Thank you for sharing!

 

Could I see fotos of the upgrade audio please? I Need to make the same in my 612.
Thanks

 

Also interested by pictures of the audio part.
I have also the double DIN Bose (OTO also), and don’t know if it’s just a switch from the old one to the new one, or if additional parts are necessary, especially a cap around the new unit.
Thank you.

 

I am doing the same mods to my '05 612. Minutes ago I was out there in my one-car garage finishing up the install of the Fiammenghi headers. I want to share that, whatever your shop charged you for this work, it was worth every penny. There is no room to spare in this car's engine bay. On the driver side I had to pull the steering column all the way into the passenger compartment to get the necessary clearance for the header and its secondary air injection trees. On the passenger side there are two pipes leading to and from the heater core, and a third pipe for the secondary air injection system, that I had to decouple and move out of the way. Then I discovered that a kind of tolerance stack made it impossible to slide the driver side flange onto the 12 studs in one go. So I removed all 12, and replaced them with an aftermarket set. I screwed these in one at a time, holding the flange in place against the cylinder head. After all the struggles entailed with threading 12 studs into the head with the six header primaries in the way, when I did the passenger side I threaded in the studs for four of the six exhaust ports and found that I could wiggle the header flange into place with these eight studs installed. This left only four studs to thread in with the header in the way. But with all 24 nuts I had to work around the header primaries, an equally challenging task. The point being, the installation of these headers was a time-consuming, painstaking job, and I would be surprised if your mechanic did not go way over the "book" labor rate.

Just for fun, here is the present condition of my headers, which I share because with the induction ducts in place you do not have such an unobstructed view of Fabio's work:

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I have installed the O2 sensors and the little brass tips on the secondary air trees, which you have to transfer over from your OE headers. I've also reinstalled the spark plug wires, coils, and boots, which also had to come off to make room.