exhaust manifold

Better to do both sides if possible while it's under warranty and on ferraris dime

Try and get a copy of service bulletin 399, it involves the exhaust replacement on cars in north america and software change to suit

I haven't read about "cracked" headers before on the Cali but its a HUGE issue on F430 and rear engined cars

 

Absolutely. At least shoot for that. Hey, what year is your car and what's your mileage? Thought Ferrari learned with the 430. Thx.

 

Do you still have the original manifolds or are they the ones replaced under the campaign?

 

It is 8 years of F430s. Don't know if Californias are different.

 

If you and or anyone can send me a set of Ferrari California factory OEM headers I will digitized the headers, CAD design a set, flow test them in Solidworks, and build CNC mandrel bent race quality headers with high velocity merge collectors.

If any is local to the new Fabspeed Motorsport USA facility we will provide free before and after dyno testing and we can work together on a great upgrade for early and late model California's. We should easilly be able to engineer a simple direct replacement high performance header for these cars. If I remember correctly the most current California's have an enhanced higher performance header. With a clean Ned CAD design my engineers and designers can maximize performance.

Have a great weekend

 

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I would not bother making performance headers for the Cali, the vast majority of cali owners here are not performance orientated

The existing supersprint, novitec and capristo headers are already tried and proven yet I'm not aware of anyone posting here that they have purchased them

I think the only market left for California exhausts that will be profitable is for JIM/Innotech to make a set of valved rear mufflers in Taiwan for half the price of the current products on the market

The days of engineering and manufacturing aftermarket exhausts in first world countries is almost over

Which country would you get the Cali headers manufactured in?

 

The north American cars have a unique emissions warranty that does not exist outside north America

For those outside NA, emission related components are simply covered for the duration of the new car warranty

My warranty ends next year, so it is a concern to me and I would think others outside north America

If my car was in Australia, it would already be out of new car warranty because Australian cars were only covered by a three year warranty

But I accept YOU don't need to worry

 

Where do you live? It's also 3 years in the US. Will be out in November, but no extended warranty here. Ridiculous prices and conditions. Having to pay 3 grand for an 'inspection' (including transportation) just to be able to buy the warranty is almost insulting. You can automatically buy an extended warranty while under factory warranty on any car, except Ferrari. Will roll the dice. Would really have to have major trouble to spend more than the warranty.

 

I live all over the place, spend a bit of the year in SoCal, about 3 or 4 months of the year in the UK with my car, and the rest of the time in australia

I lived in SoCal for three years out of the last 10 for work but didn't enjoy it

I love London the best, and it's a great place to be able to enjoy a nice car

France and Belguim are 2.5 hours away by taking the car in the euro tunnel

The warranty on my car is 4 years, it's a UK delivered car