Ferrari F12 Owners looking for an improvement in sound have three options or stages of upgrade:

• Stage 1: Sports rear silencers with valves and remote
• Stage 2: Sports rear silencers with valves and remote + an X-pipe to delete the central muffler (our most popular F12 upgrade)
• Stage 3: sports rear silencers with valves and remote + an X-pipe to delete the central muffler + sports catalysts, Novitec ECU Upgrade (+ 70hp and extreme sound)

On this page we will detail our most popular stage - Stage 2.

Here, we replace your original rear silencers with Novitec Sport Rear Silencers and change your X Pipe to replace your stock central section and add a remote-control unit.

The F12 is fairly quiet as standard, being designed to be as a GT car. Owners need to drive it a rather aggressively to get any enjoyable exhaust note experience at all really. When the valves in the original exhaust DO finally open, you get a nice but muted, muffled sound - it's not bad but it could be fantastic and another problem is the way the sound jumps from closed to open, which can give the impression to passers-by that you're driving obnoxiously.

The Novitec stage 2 kit exhaust changes all of this - it's a transformation. Straight away the car will be much fuller, deeper and louder at low rpm and will settle on a much fuller large-V12 idle. The note will stay deep at low revs and then from about 3000rpm give way to a much higher pitched exhaust note which gets louder LINEARLY (according to your throttle input). This point is quite important because the way stock exhaust works means that the valves open all of a sudden - the car jumps from silent to louder in a just a moment. This doesn't happen with the Novitec - the exhaust note now builds in intensity, gradually and cleanly. All the while as the revs rise, the exhaust tone is changing so that when the owner reaches 5000rpm onwards the car is making a really amazing high pitched screaming motorsport sound, instead of the stock systems flat bark. The difference over standard is huge. When you come off the throttle, the valves do NOT close (unlike the stock system) which means you get a linear winding-down of volume and sound and fantastic pops and crackles on the over-run.

Remember that this sound is combined with the remote control that is included, which allows you to open the valves up in the Novitec system at any point in the rev range and more importantly close them again at low rpm. This means you can bring the car back to a more discreet volume for long distance driving, and early starts, etc at any time.

Now, there is a fair bit of confusion on the internet/forums etc about what brand of exhaust is the "best" for the modern V12 Ferraris.

We are quite clear on this: We work with all major exhaust brands (Novitec, IPE, Armytrix/FI/ etc) , and based on our experience the Novitec silencers for the F12 are the ones to choose.

There is NO brand out there which:

• Gives the increase in volume over stock
• Produces the same unparalleled scream and pitch
• Gives a substantial difference between "open" and "closed"

For whatever reason, other silencers for the modern V12 Ferraris are just disappointing and we know that because, sadly, we've fitted them before. The Youtube clips on the internet are misleading and they typically demonstrate a car which has some stage-3 esque system fitted to it.

When a less aggressive stage 2 or 3 is fitted we've found all the other brands are too quiet, sound too close to stock and don't sound anything like as exciting as a Novitec exhaust.