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As far as I can see, I'll need a centre mount and a rear mount (with two bushes) and whatever clamps that'll be needed to hold it up.
It might be something to think about though I still can't quite work out how it happened in the first place. Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. And as you point out, most exhaust systems are suspended on rubber, but the original Mini bobbin I believe was intended to suspend the exhaust in tension rather than to be used under the exhaust in compression as on our cars, and with nasty shear and torsional loads if the exhaust and chassis brackets are even slightly misaligned or out of parallel. I changed to a bolt thro method on my previous car and use the same method on my current one - I run a long silencer and wanted additional security after having bobbins fail on my first K series car. The leaders of the local classic club happened to have both of the subframe mounts laying around so he let me have them.My exhaust bobbins (poly bushing mounts for exhaust hangers) failed on the way home and my exhaust dragging on the freeway was enough to make me pull over and investigate. The imperial size may have been true at one point but many motor factors now supply these with a metric thread and nuts to suit (certainly Halfords does). I don't think there's much need to allow for linear vertical movement other than to provide some cushioning of shock loads causes by the inertia of the silencer over bumps etc.
I know I could get a bracket welded to the silencer extending forward but I think it would look mess and I prefer the clean lines of the system as it is.To browse and purchase more products and view our current discounted, for sale and clearance offers please navigate from the GreaseMonkeyDirect.