1 hour ago, OliR said:

How much of a job is that to do?

No not really, fiddly if anything unless you have small hands.
Open the bonnet, remove the rubber strip from the scuttle panel then carefully lift the scuttle trim on the passenger side (I guess it would be easier to remove the passenger wiper arm), then peer underneath the trim towards the centre of the car and you can see it, I managed to get a hand in there and wiggled the connector until it came off.
Took between 5-10 minutes.

Used to have an integra type r with a straight through pipe ... no boxes of any sort!

 

The noise when vtec kicked in was incredible ... lasted about 3 months before wife made me change it.

19 minutes ago, Ursicles said:

Used to have an integra type r with a straight through pipe ... no boxes of any sort!

 

The noise when vtec kicked in was incredible ... lasted about 3 months before wife made me change it.

Did you consider changing your wife instead?

2 minutes ago, Robbijay said:

Did you consider changing your wife instead?

 

I did 2 yrs ago...

 

Still miss that car.

22 hours ago, Ursicles said:

Used to have an integra type r with a straight through pipe ... no boxes of any sort!

 

The noise when vtec kicked in was incredible ... lasted about 3 months before wife made me change it.

I had an Accord Type R which I de-cat & that sounds awesome too

 

Used to have a Focus ST as well, the one with the 5 cylinder Volvo engine and that sounds lovely when giving it some

On 3/8/2018 at 15:07, Robbijay said:

Sounds pretty silent to me? What the car needs is a decent exhaust! (and intake, they're both damn near silent)

I'm in agreement with most, the noise is horribly fake and I just switch it off in individual and set everything else to sport. I fail  to see the point in the fake noise, (or even normal mode) just individual for me, or eco if I'm sat in town.

 

Manufacturers could just fit an active exhaust valve in more models so we get the best of both world, but I guess fakeness is cheaper!

Worse than the noise is how heavy the steering becomes in Sport so I use Individual and have everything on sport except normal for steering.

You’re kidding, right? The sport steering makes a reasonable job of pretending it has some feel. The lightness of normal is laughable!! (In my opinion, obviously). I have everything in sport except the noise and the AC. It stays in individual whenever I’m driving it other than eco in really bad town traffic.

Edited 17 March, 20188 yr by Robbijay

What difference does Sport mode make to A/C? I have my car in individual generally with everything set to to sport except the DCC (normal) .  I have the noise generator turned down to 0 in VCDS.  

 

Steering is fine in Sport to my mind, pretty much the same weighting as the Mk2 VRS I had previously.  Certainly doesn't  seem heavy to me , but my first eight cars didn't even have power steering, 

 

 

On 08/03/2018 at 12:57, penguin17 said:

Even Porsche and the mighty BMW M5 use a similar technology.  Unfortunately emissions regs/engine downsizing means manufacturers have to synthesise engine noises.   Ford had a nightmare getting a throaty note out of the Volvo T5 engine so fitted a symphoser as well as some trick manifold. 

 

My mates BiTDI 3.0 A6 has an active speaker in the exhaust.  He bought a plugin box from Germany which allows him to change the exhaust note to whatever he feels.  Audi HQ in MK had an SQ5's active exhaust speaker playing music in the foyer according to the people I was speaking to on a promotional RS open day. 

I remember Williams (F1) playing God Save the Queen with their exhaust.  Pretty sure there were no speakers involved.