348 Exhaust sound

Similarities and differences... I'm with ya there.

I was trying to organize a 348 get-together locally but too many other things were/are on the schedule. Hopefully I can try again in the next month or so.

Maybe something to consider for the spring in your area? Lots of lead time involved.

 

It's a ferrari motor it will sound like a ferrari


I'm putting together right now for my 348 2.5" strait pipes with torque cones at the collector, an X and CARB approved cats. Have a set of Supertrapps at the end to quiet it down when needed.

Not sure how it will sound but I'm sure it will work well, hope to finish Sunday


Vroooooooooom

 

I also have a 1994 Serie Speciale, but I'm running 100% stock exhaust. I see you're in New England?? I'm in NH. I'd be happy to put the two cars side by side one of these days. Very curious to hear your set up! Tom


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I think the range of "what a true Ferrari is meant to sound like" is pretty large. If you think about the exhaust sounds of all the models through the years they very quite a lot, from some of the more whispy quieter V12s (456) to the raspy V12s (1960s stuff) to the plain sounding V8s (308) to the really high pitched (355), and just about everything in between. I'd say that if you think the sound still jibes well with the Ferrari feel you get when driving then that's good enough. If you feel like it no longer matches the awesome feel of the driving dynamics then it's time to reassess the setup. Of course this will vary from person to person, so don't let people tell you that a certain setup is "wrong" as it may be exactly what you like. Personally I like the high pitched stuff but I also still appreciate some 4 cylinder-sounding growl too (basically how the F40 sounded when the wastegates were open at full load with a mix of low and high pitches).

 

I have pretty much that same setup now on my 348 and like the sound. It was all stock when I got it and it sounded good but nothing like my 355. I found one of the cats was coming apart so I put on so resonator style off road pipes and later added the Nouvalari and it brought it much closer to sounding like my 355, but my 355 was not stock and I've never heard the stock pitch. It had fabspeed headers, off road pipes, and a TUBI. A little rumbley down low but screamed pretty nice opened up.

 

Timely post. I just got a quote for a Nouvalari Engineering exhaust last night. I already have cat delete pipes on the car. I have seen the 2 youtube videos, anyone else have videos with that or similar setup?

 

Do you have the sport or supersport system?

 

I also notice the superformance sold system looks identical to Nouvalari, but I dont know if its the sport or supersport.

Nouvalari on the flag vs superformance
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I run fabspeed cat by pass pipes, and nouvalari supersport exhaust (car was previously owned by glenn himself).

Sounds monstrous. Screams, lots of popping and burbling on the over run.

Love it!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBDYQlgUbMo&ab_channel=NavdeepUppal

^video of my setup, excuse the shaky camera

 

Sounds great!

 

Do cat bypass pipes really impact the sound that much or is that mainly the exhaust?

 

Catylists are good mufflers. Any (most) exhaust will be louder with straight pipes.

 

Test pipes (catless straight pipe section) certainly impacts sound over stock cats in terms of volume and higher frequencies in the exhaust note through the rev range. Not sure against a performance high flow cat like Hyper-flows, but imagine that it would be a similar effect though perhaps not as pronounced.

 

The 348 can sound awesome with the right setup. Put on a good headset and listen to this one. Not much rpm but one can hear the potensial - definitely one of my favourites :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVD1G1Fuxk0

 

That guy needs to give it some welly..