488 exhaust suggestions

Guys, As I wait for my car to arrive, I have browsed about 200 pages of our subject matter in the 488/458/F8 forum and did a search but haven’t found a thread dedicated to exhaust outside of the Tag examples of Novitec videos. I would love to hear what you guys think is the best exhaust combination.
I have Rich Brooks X pipe on my Ford GT and it sounds glorious.

For the 488 i am looking for
-a crisp high pitch that is “robust” (meaning not thin tinny sounding). Sorta like that famous 355 launch video with the kreiseg exhaust.
- no drone
- nice looking tips

Do I need Cat delete?
X-pipe only?
Hi flow cats?
Tune specifics? Want reliability

I’m leaning to Kline or Capristo but want to hear from all of you, I marry my cars so I want to do this right and I want to do this once.

Experienced opinions are appreciated.

 

Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

BTW, if anyone is looking to go back to stock for some reason and is looking to offload their aftermarket exhaust, I would be interested to speak to you.

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Thanks Laguna, I get your comment about the 355. The twin turbo’d 488 impeding the sound makes this a little more challenging to figure out. Did you experience any CELs? Any issues with tuning?

 

So Dave, that’s the Ryft system then? Cat delete down pipes X-Pipe, stock sport exhaust tips, tune?

 

Got it, thanks Dave

 

Thanks. Do you keep the valves open? I do plan to put a lot of miles on it. The stock wheels look good also and I will be keeping all the stock gear but i’m Afraid, wheels and exhaust upgrades are mandatory in my collection. I always change that out at bare minimum.
This car was nicely spec’d and included the sound upgrade thankfully so that will stay put. I don’t use the radio much in any of my cars but when I do, I like nice sound. Like most of us here I much prefer the notes of the car though.

Not my style to rice the car, just tasteful upgrades. Exhaust sound MUST be robust for me.

 

Feh, I may just do the X-Pipe also.But For my taste, pure stock won’t cut it

 

That’s interesting. It has factory sport exhaust but as I understand it, that is simply flat black tips.
Car is a 16 with 26K miles and was a two owner well cared for car. I will be owner # 3.
Exhaust sounded beefy but I couldn’t rev it up in the showroom. May be “broke in” as others are indicating a better sound with age.

 

Ok, so I’m buying RYFT down pipes and Carbon tips now from a member here who reached out. (Thank you Fredrik). I will now need the RYFT X-pipe if anyone is looking to get rid of theirs.

I’m now curious about back pressure (maybe I should take this question to Q&A technical thread). Being a turbo motor, perhaps the back pressure must be maintained somehow as a matter of physics beyond what a tune can handle. Thoughts or knowledge on this would be much appreciated.

Once I’m done I will submit the process and the result for future members that want to see this end to end.

 

Thanks Emm, yeah, car broke in and I’m very happy with the Condition, spec and set up. I’m going to buy all the RYFT stuff complete anyways.
I’m surprised to hear from you and others about the “good enough sound re: stock exhaust set up.

Once I get it I will report back.

Can you hear your turbos whistle in your stock set up?

 

Thanks Eric. Is your system Cat delete? Do you live with CELs?

Will be watching videos now.

Your car is wicked cool

 

That sounds MEAN Eric.

 

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