The testing mule of an upcoming Ferrari F450, whose debut is expected this fall, is running crazy down the tracks and roads of general use in the last stages of refinement. Ferrari Company and well-known tuners altogether have already said goodbye to the predecessor F430. Sleep well, darling? But no. A specialist from a Japanese studio ASI has shown the desire to improve this beauty, going to the rest.
Japanese tuners decided not to engage into costly and complicated tuning. To get started, they’ve installed new bumpers and sills, with a lower weight at 27 kg against the standard. Suspension has also been changed and it was assembled from the Sachs components. Finally tuners slightly reprogrammed the «brain» of a V8 4.3L engine (490 horsepower, 465 N • m), improving its traction at medium speed.
You can not order a full body kit, but only its individual elements. For example, for front and rear bumpers, as well as for the sills you will have to pay five, six and four thousand dollars accordingly.
Surprisingly, but for the such non-traditional (without an increase in power) chip-tuning Japanese have demanded $ 7500. Too much. But $ 15 000 for a complete body false weight and $ 13 000 for the sports suspension Sachs did not appear like throwing the money to the wind.
Mentioning the basic version of an engine. 4.3L V8 petrol engine derived from a shared Ferrari/Maserati design. This new power plant is a significant departure for the F430 line: the engines of all previous V8 Ferraris were descendants of the Dino racing program of the 1950s. This fifty year development cycle comes to an end with the entirely new 4.3L, the architecture of which is expected to replace the Dino-derived V12 in most other Ferrari cars. The engine’s output specifications are: 490ps (483hp) at 8500 RPM and 465 N•m (343 lb•ft) of torque at 5250 RPM. The F430 will reach a top speed of 196 mph (315 km/h).
