What about getting it remade in stainless and bead blasting that? Or just spraying the steel mustache with a satin clear coat?
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DIY: Floating Console Modification
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Frankly it's a pseudo wear item. You could get it remade in titanium (and smaller piece generally speaking) and it wouldn't affect the function of the part. Rub a little moly-grease (VERY little, don't want it marking up other stuff or caking with dust) and you might never tell it rubs against other stuff much.
The whole thing top to bottom polished looks fantastic IMO. If I could have ordered that way I would
The entire piece, from top to bottom, looks fantastic in my opinion. If I could have ordered it this way, I absolutely would have. Unfortunately, I don't have the tools or experience to pull it off, but if someone else does, go for it! By the way, this is how the designer originally envisioned it, and it's likely the best possible execution of the exposed gear lever. Ultimately, the company chose a different direction, not prioritizing the design elements as much. These pictures really do look like art.
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To be fair, that was a concept render. The lower linkage doesn't *exactly* look like that even if you had it polished up. It would look quite similar though.
As far as "experience" to do it. Very little needed. The great part about polishing something up is, if you mess up and leave chatter marks or something, you just go back a step and use a slightly more aggressive compound and smooth it out.
It would take a while, but you could polish the whole thing with a dremel. Probably better if you had a bench grinder/polishing wheel particularly for the larger parts like the base and the shift lever/reverse sleave, but you could with a dremel, and other than polishing compound and maybe some fabric dust there's no real mess to concern yourself with. So you can do it in a house/apt sitting at a table maybe something to help "hold" the part in question in place (just a simple plastic clamp or mini-vise) and your time.
I guess since polishing requires you keeping your eyes on what you are doing an audio-book or some music would be your distraction from boredom. You might actually be surprised. Lots of folks find these kinds of tasks really satisfying. You get to see very visible and somewhat immediate results of your efforts, a bit like power washing.
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A dremel and a lot of patience, and this could be yours.
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This opens up the market for any of the existing elise/exige shifter manufacturers out there to make something for the Emira.
*hint hint*
I saw this one in an Elise yesterday at Menlo Park Cars and Coffee:
*hint hint*
I saw this one in an Elise yesterday at Menlo Park Cars and Coffee:
Exactly.. your comment. I'm asking a question. Where did I say people can't like what they like?
Six Speed Stephen
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Pardon my ignorance, is this just a more visually attractive mechanism ?
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Yes, but for the elise / exige. This shifter is expensive and had better feel than the OE one.
Yeah I would suspect that while it looks visually improved in a number of ways, the primary intention is some kind of improvement on bearing slop and precision.
Also seems to have 2 mounting holes for one of the shifter cables, so there's probably some intention to that.
Honestly it's really VERY similar to the Emira shifter assembly, so it would be curious to see the diff in a car.
Also seems to have 2 mounting holes for one of the shifter cables, so there's probably some intention to that.
Honestly it's really VERY similar to the Emira shifter assembly, so it would be curious to see the diff in a car.
Looks great! I actually like how it looks in that OEM-ish black plastic. Offers a nice contrast to the gloss black, silver and Tan.
freefall_junkie
Emira Fiend
Looks great with tan. Again, well done kitkat for showing us the way.
For anyone asking why, a bit of a reminder that the floating console is clearly what Russell Carr and his design team originally intended as this is how it looked on the Emira launch car. The mesh was forced on them later by nannying safety regs in some markets. I remember poring over that car in great detail at a launch event in Glasgow in November 2021 - seems like a very long time ago now. The exposed gear linkage was by far my favourite design element in the interior so I was disappointed to see the mesh on the production cars.
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