100k Miles or Bust - m00nGarage's 458 Speciale Build

Beautiful car. I will definitely see you at VIR in my Rosso Scuderia 458 Italia as VIR is also my local track. For many of the HPDE track days, I have never seen another Ferrari so will be great to see you out there.

Which VIR track days this year are you planning on?


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Beautiful looking ride! I was looking at this car as well a few months ago. Sounds like with your mods and plans to daily it that there is no advice to give.

I love the CF vents and side nolders on mine. Really like that look.

Enjoy and drive safe out there!


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Congrats ! First @ 100k miles wins

 

Congrats, Speciale is truly one of a kind.
All mods on your list are nice! Although, I personally might reconsider decat if the car is going to be daily driven. Gas fumes and ultra loudness for 100k miles would be excessive for me. Maybe 200 or even 100 cell sport cats?

 

^^^^ exactly. The only issue is your exhaust may be a bit too loud for you to put on 100K miles. I'd likely just keep it OEM on the exhaust side, or just the rear section, but not the cats.

A way to get an awesome infotainment would be cool - or just more reliable bluetooth options from the phone.

 

Flu and R6 beat me to it, but I was going to say iPE is great but that and decat and your ears will bleed. I broke down and put cats back on my 355 because I was getting tinnitus from driving it.

 

Beautiful 458! I’ll be following your journey!

 

This is going to be super exciting to follow! Have you got an Instagram going?

As for my 2 cents: avoid IPE/Armytrix etc - go for a German designed/manufactured brand like Capristo or Novitec, especially if you're going to put so many miles on her!

Also you've been given some great advice re: sports cats over decats. If she's going to be a weekend warrior then decats would be fine, they sound amazing...however, if you're going to DD the car then it'll be a bit much. If decats are an 11/10 then 100-cell are a 9/10 and 200-cell are an 8/10.

Take from that what you will, and good for you for actually using your car as a car. Seriously impressive stuff

 

I am happy with my decated Speciale. I prefer the sound of Inconel to Titanium, but to each their own. The sound is the only flaw I've found in my Speciale, other than how expensive it is! I'm putting about 4k miles a year on mine, so 100k is going to take quite a while to get to.


Two quick points...
#1. The Speciale needs a different tune than that of an Italia if you decat and don't want a CEL. The secondary air injection is different.
#2. If you get an X-pipe, which I wholeheartedly endorse, you are going to have pipes much closer to the rear diffuser and you are going to need to take heat management very seriously.

 

If you already have decat cars, then pay no attention to what I said above!

 

My pleasure!

So Capristo's exhausts are made from Stainless Steel 309 / 1.4828 - they don't offer any Titanium solutions.
I'm not sure of exactly what grade of Stainless Novitec uses, but I'm fairly sure their Inconel is Inconel 625.

The analogy I always use for the Titanium / Inconel debate is this:

When the US built the X-15 they needed a metal which could withstand temperatures from air resistance at Mach 6, Inconel was their choice.
When they built the SR-71 they needed a metal that could withstand temperatures from air resistance at Mach 3.2, Titanium was their choice.

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!

 

I’ll be at VIR for the April 11-12 FCA event. Will see you out there! If you see me, do swing by and say hello!

My 458 is easily identifiable by the small carbon lip on the rear deck.