If you stay up late trying to figure it out how to make your car sound more like an F1 car from the late 1990swith the exhaust howls ridiculously loudyou will want to see This video is from Maisteer on YouTube. There are three main features you need to design into your exhaust system to make that happen, first design an exhaust that brings all your exhaust ports down to a single collector (if you have a V8 this will be an 8 into 1 connector), then Ensure each collection tube is merged in sequence according to firing orderand finally Make sure your title has steps! That’s it, that’s all you need to know.
Okay, there’s a little more to it. The steps are the most important part. Even if you go back and look at the sounds of F1 cars, they changed dramatically between 1997 and 1998, and the biggest change was the steps. Basically, every time the compressed exhaust passes through one of these steps, some of the pressure reverses direction and creates the resonance you hear, as all those separate pressure pulses multiply in the collector. It’s just hundreds of individual pulses screaming and ripping through the exhaust in rapid succession. It seems like that’s the key to getting the 1998 Ferrari F300 V10 exhaust sound you really want.
You’ll also definitely need something that revs high enough to get the most out of it, but these little tricks will turn your next handmade titanium exhaust into a truly enjoyable noisemaker. There’s no sound on earth quite like the whirring sound of a new F1 V10. Give it a try, what harm can it do?
