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If you need the link pipe 2.5” on silencer to 2” pipe let me know as I’ve two here I’m not going to use

Your not far off of what I was thinking The bolt under the silencer will have a gap to house the rubber bobbin, like an engine mount I would either make a half moon stainless plate that welds to the underside of exhaust tail pipe with the bolt ( or nut ) incorporated with it.

I agree totally with all of that. Best get your wallet out Dave Or maybe you can live with, say, a 1kg saving for not much cost / effort by sticking a new outer sleeve on it or something like that.

As obvious as this may sound I think that the weight comes from everything. The stock part is a stainless perforated tube, surrounded by a dense insulation, wrapped by stainless sheet (to form the outer surface we see) and capped on the ends with thick stainless caps. Add to that the stainless 90° bend exit and the stainless entrance tube and braces and there's a lot of stainless in the mix....in fact I'd guess that a good 80% of the package weight is from the stainless as the only other thing is the insulation. Replacing the outer surface with ti or aluminum would of course save some weight on that part but it leaves all the other heavy stuff in place. I think the real cost-is-no-object way of going about it is to use Ti in place of ALL the stainless used. Ti is just as strong so the wall thickness of the Ti would not need to be thicker than the stainless and the simple fact that the item weights less means it can have less bracing to keep it from coming apart with vibration....making it light means it can be made lighter is you will.....a positive feedback loop. The link to the TiCon mufflers shows just what I'm talking about. I think the downside to the TiCon is that it's too small and will likely be too loud for me to pass my competition noise tests. And of course all that Ti is spendy. dave

Here we have some of the remaining parts we bought in for the black Friday event, these are all in stock ready to be sent out. These offers are open to purchased by ONLY members of the club until tomorrow when they will be open to the public. WE HAVE: 2x pair of sport turbo seats in black with black piping- collection £600.00 inc vat or £650.00 posted (UK only, please call for overseas shipping price), 1x pair of diamond stitched sport turbo seats in black with black piping- collection £700.00 inc vat or £750.00 posted (UK only, please call for overseas shipping price), NOW SOLD. 1x pair of diamond stitched sport turbo seats in black with yellow piping- collection £700.00 inc vat or £750.00 posted (UK only, please call for overseas shipping price), 2x complete zetec black top throttle body kits including ECU- £1900.00 inc vat free UK postage (please call for overseas shipping price). If you are interested in any of these give us a call on 01384 400077 and ask for parts.

The actual titanium skin is very thin, don't know about the other parts used. It's a big silencer though, are you comparing size for size Adam? I hate to think how heavy my stainless 6" dia one is, but the bigger dia Raceco one was definitely lighter.

Not sure, will see what he says. Think it’s more of a heart than head purchase. I will try and steer the sprogg in the right direction- but he may be happy doing what he’s doing Thanks for all the info though, most helpful

Too late, its here already

Hi folks, had this email from Pit Strahl in switzerland "hi Folks, what a nice trip, congratulations ! How many of you are on the trip more or less? I live in the southern part of Switzerland, near the lake of Lugano. I call it the eldorado for seven drivers or similar men toys. maybe I could arrange it to be free from 29/05 to01/06. I know plenty of beautiful narrow, very curvy single track roads down here. I am sure you would like it. Also there are plenty of nice Grottos (local inns) with simple delicious local food. If interested in more information please feel free to write me. It would be nice to see you guys curving around here, cheers Pit " I have been in touch with him via the Lotus seven club of Switzerland,and have been in touch with them for a while now, and I have posted our itinerary with them as well , so hopefully we can meet up with Pit and some of the other members, then reciprocate when Pit comes to Scotland

Black Terry. Wife said once you've had black , there is no going back. I believe she is talking about cars as we have a black Skoda too