Delbox
New member
Have been speaking to the Parts Manager and sales staffs at Nottingham OPC about availability of the 987 sports exhaust; following is how they see the situation:
The exhaust is listed as an option on 06 specification cars; however, it is not expected to be fitted to any cars built before October. therefore, if it follws the standard delay before being available for retrofitting, it is unlikely to be available to existing 987 owners until January 2006. It is expected that a choice of tailpipe finishers will be available - so those of us with the S won't need to suffer the existing Vectra tailpipes for much longer. If fitted with Sport Chron, the exhaust will be enabled when 'Sport' is selected; otherwise a separate button is fitted.
Now the bad news, no one yet knows what the exhaust will look like - although it is unlikely to be the monstrosity that was available for the 986. Likwise costs are unknown - both for supply and/or fitting! However, it is not anticipated that it will be as difficult to fit fully as the 986 version; therefore only an hour's additional labour is anticipated to provide full functionality. They don't know whether it will be possible to fit the exhaust with the 'noise' valve permanently open.
Finally, the exhaust will offer no power increase - just a change in exhaust note. However, as I had the opportunity to listen to the 997 sports exhaust on a used Cabrio, I'm sold on having one fitted to my 987S; the noise is even more intoxicating than the existing 987S exhaust note.
Time to join the queue!!!
Del![[FONT=verdana,geneva"]](/forum/styles/default/pcgb/space.gif ". [FONT=verdana,geneva\"]")
The exhaust is listed as an option on 06 specification cars; however, it is not expected to be fitted to any cars built before October. therefore, if it follws the standard delay before being available for retrofitting, it is unlikely to be available to existing 987 owners until January 2006. It is expected that a choice of tailpipe finishers will be available - so those of us with the S won't need to suffer the existing Vectra tailpipes for much longer. If fitted with Sport Chron, the exhaust will be enabled when 'Sport' is selected; otherwise a separate button is fitted.
Now the bad news, no one yet knows what the exhaust will look like - although it is unlikely to be the monstrosity that was available for the 986. Likwise costs are unknown - both for supply and/or fitting! However, it is not anticipated that it will be as difficult to fit fully as the 986 version; therefore only an hour's additional labour is anticipated to provide full functionality. They don't know whether it will be possible to fit the exhaust with the 'noise' valve permanently open.
Finally, the exhaust will offer no power increase - just a change in exhaust note. However, as I had the opportunity to listen to the 997 sports exhaust on a used Cabrio, I'm sold on having one fitted to my 987S; the noise is even more intoxicating than the existing 987S exhaust note.
Time to join the queue!!!
Del
]
