Nice title right. I like it.

This Italian girl was a pristine, low mile, looked like it had never been raced bright red Ferrari F430 challenge race car. I had drove into Austin Texas a couple weeks before to engineer and design a pair of custom high end race factory replacement headers for a sweet sexy black Ferrari 360 Modena. This 360 needed my tubes to complete its twin turbo kit I'll post that up if you guys are nice.

The owner of the F430 was sold the moment he laid eyes on the precision slip fit 5" low angle merge collectors I had made from scratch for the 360.

Now to let the pix tell the rest of the story.

The birth of CTD Race F430 Headers, code named VF1's

























DUUUUCT TAAAAAPE

























Sound Clips!!! Not professional but hook it up to the stereo and turn it up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2SUTucqe4


Walk around engine bay. Cell phone camera, all i had atm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJY6EZg5nqA



Because of the short time frame (start to finish in 5 days) a before and after dyno could not be done. However the next pair will be installed on a F430 Scuderia. Professional sound clips, video, and before and after dynos will be recorded. If you guys want to see more I have a ton more pix on my Facebook page, CTD Fabrication.


Thanks for looking

 

looks great Vince! ba ba ba BALLEN!

 

Ha, thanks Collin. Couldn't have done it without that 60 degree cone on the press. And that reminds me, I'm probably gonna need one of those pretty soon for myself.

 

whats up with the sound? it reminds me of a big block V8 not a singing prancing horse

 

Its probably the combination of cell phone and recording in the enclosed shop. It sounded much better under load driving away. The F430 uses a 4.3 liter V8 with a 8500 redline and pretty much straight pipes with that very minimal muffler, flatplane crank though.

 

It does sound weird,(likely the variables you mentioned) but I still hate you!!!! Love the Italians. Nice job.

 

Pmed bro, again, looks and sounds great. I bet in person it sounds even sicker. I know inside the shop its really loud there, sick work

 

I think she sounds like a nasty girl, but then I have listened to countless exhaust videos so I can take in account for the cell phone and building echo. Thumbs up for sure on your work and I envy you getting to man handle such beautiful girls.

 

Freaking sick

 

looking good

 

great looking fab work.

 

I might even be a bit nervous to work on that car. Nice work man!

 

damn. thats bad a.

 

Of coarse you would.
Can you say pedophile?
You work is getting better BTW.

 

Lol, Thanks Chris. Speaking of Italian cars, there was also a twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo there. Beautiful on the outside but when you get all up in it, it was kinda gross and disappointing, garbage tig welds. Like the Ferrari's much better.

It really does sound nasty (in a good way) in person, you can just hear the raw power. I'm going to try to get some vids of it on the track as the owner plans to beat this car. I can't imagine what it sounds like at top speed flying by!


Lol, you don't even know! The owner of the car also owns a car dealership next door to the fab shop i was working at. He would walk over and check on his car and progress at least 10 times a day, lol. All of his cars are detailed to perfection and this Ferrari even while being a full blown race car was clear vinyl bra'd on the whole bottom half all the way around!! I touched it only when I absolutely had to and I had one of the techs put it on the lift because I didn't want that responsibility, haha.


Damnit Aaron, I knew you would say something about the title

But the car really did have a skirt on the whole time...


Thanks for the compliment though, I'm far from the best but I do everything I can to make sure I'm getting better. I'm loving the seat time and still using all the tips I learned from watching you and Cj. I threw down these beads on a small t25 manifold I did out there...Schedule 10 with Schedule 40 collector btw




Didn't wire wheel all the way because it was going to be coated.

 

is that SW's car?

 

Yes sir.

 

Pics of the 360! Those are my favorite F cars.

 

Just the car or the whole header build? These are a couple pix before it went under the torch. It also rolls on HRE's now.

 

Dang must of been a awesome tech to work on that thing... It's easy when you make them so easy to put on. Getting the stockers off is another story.

 

NIce work. Some nice street pull videos would be nice from the rear

 

Post whatever you got. It looks awesome!

 

oh no you did ehhn

 

Haha, Whats up man. You did get them off pretty quick compared to the 5+ hours it took Antonio and I to remove the 360 ones with our "custom" wrenches. Get used to it though, you have at least two more sets to do

Onwards to the 360 project -









Individual flanges FTW!!!! Got to know some tricks to get stuff like this to work








And I also have a cell phone video, not the best but at least its something to listen to.

http://youtu.be/QNfXePVtZKs



This one was a pretty fun project. The shop that built the setup had everything done before I got there and I think they made a pretty good looking and preforming setup. The stock headers have pre-cats so they needed my replacements to complete this gem. It was tuned after and made really good power on the stock engine but I can't release the results.

Beautiful little 360