mik

Enjoyed that. 😎

All zero / ultra-low mileage sports cars destroy me. Car crime. 🙁

ie This One

The noise you are describing sounds like dry front arb bushes - which they are prone to.

And their GT11 and GT12 products are still listed - thanks Agent!

Hang on - Gliptone isn’t dead?

Worth speaking to one of the specialists - I know Craig Moncrieff up here in Scotland tends to have oem back boxes, headers etc in the workshop following the fitting of upgrades. They are likely to have what you want, and might let it go cheap.

Love that first pic 😎

@TrevS I find the car has a tendancy to skip over road imperfections if you are running the Michelin's at book pressures (which were for the series1 car OEM fit Pirellis). I fiddled about a bit and find 31.5F 34R to be a good compromise.

I have a standard back box, with 2bular manifolds & sports cat. Volume is up (but not as loud as a mate with a V6 exige who had oem manifolds with the 2bular backbox around the same time), and whilst it's lost a smidge of gargle, the sound is "harder" and it now crackles a bit on the over-run. Most importantly (for me) it's changed the character of the car : low end and mid-range grunt are still as strong, but the shove no longer drops off as you approach the redline - it's definitely more urgent at the top end of the rev range (which is where you'd expect a free-er flowing system to deliver results).

It’s pretty subtle though - particularly the dots on the knobs.

With immediate effect apparently. See this article. Real shame. 🙁 Might help Emira sales I guess.....

I think it is still region dependent? My 2009 Vauxhall VXR8 (which is a essentially a (terribly) re-badged Holden Special Vehicles Commodore Clubsport) was RHD but had the indicator stalk on the RHS. It takes a long time to re-train your muscle memory - to stop signaling with your wipers - and just as long to train it back again when you sell the car..... 🥴

Yeah, I assumed that comment was in relation to full aftermarket alternative bumpers vs OEM, as opposed to something "bolt onto existing", but fair enough.

I assume you've considered other options to make the front (a little) more agressive? I've never seen on in the flesh, but I was thinking of something like the hethelsport splitter ?