Tubi-Style or Capristo for my F430

Narrowed my manifolds down to Tubi or Capristo. Appreciate any words of wisdom towards making the decision after reviewing my take on how they compare. Both are 4-2-1. Both are overpriced, imho.

I am pairing the manifolds with a new Ferrari Sport exhaust cat-back so the Capristo brackets won't be necessary. An additional pairing will be the mini-cat extenders with the OEM Cats.

Advantages/Disadvantages of Tubi over Capristo

Tubi Advantages:
- Inconel 600 material (Capristo is 309, but not sure how necessary the I600 will be given it’s a street car)
- Metal heat shields (Capristo blankets must work better, but they don't look very good, especially half baked)
- OEM appearance to Ca smog stations
- Close development ties with Ferrari (this is a weak advantage, I admit).

Tubi Disadvantages:
- approx ~$1700 more
- Capped off air rail for non-Scud applications like mine, can't easily get it w/o though I'm told a custom order *may* be possible (probably added cost for less content [emoji4]
- 2 yr warranty vs 3 yr from Capristo
- customer service may be, well, more relaxed than Capristo.
- Capristo manifolds are a work of art in design and quality. I've never seen a pic of Tubi manifolds without the heat shield - have to go by reputation.

Anyone have any feedback on Tubi manifolds? This might be another disadvantage as plenty of positive feedback is available for Capristo.

 

Yes they do.

http://www.championmotorsport.com/product-p/tsfe430c09-003-i.htm


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Tubi Style is their name, not a knockoff. Tubi for short

They are the original in Maranello, I’ve been there.

Www.tubistyle.it

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Changing primarily for failure potential and a bit more power.



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Thanks for the feedback, and I did pick up that sport exhaust on e-bay the other day, it’s was too good to pass up.

I did plan to change to the Sport exhaust first, and really didn’t think about how that could solve or substantially reduce the problem.





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I do have a Ferrari/Tubi sport exhaust coming. It seems to help with the header fracture issues, but I might miss that polished muffler in the engine bay with ‘Ferrari’ on it. I bought the set last week and should be coming soon.

Talking to a few different vendors, there really isn’t any price difference between the Tubi manifolds and capristo manifolds. Both are 4-2-1 but Tubi is Inconel 600 with a metal heat shield and capristo is SS309 with the cloth-type blanket. Inconel 600 has much better thermal properties and fatigue/fracture resistance at high temps, but not sure we need it. SS 309 is also a higher grade than 304, primarily being lighter so thicker gages can be used.

The Tubi’s only come with the air rail that’s capped off for the f430.

Tubi’s look stock, capristo looks like a work of art until the heat shield goes on.

The surface temp of the capristo manifolds will be much lower with the cloth blankets but that heat is then going to the cats and mufflers and pipes in between so Underhood temps may not be that much better. Everything else will run hotter if the manifolds aren’t conducting.

Capristo has a 3 year warranty, Tubi a 2 year but I didn’t suspect either will be needed.

If both are 4-2-1 and equal length, then unless tube diameters are significantly different (doubtful) then sound will be the same, everything else held equal.


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