This was a shizz year for me financially. I got shut down on all my side projects.

I'm on my way back to comfortable so I decided to go forward:

Car is getting some body damage repaied and as soon as that's done, I'll be able to proceed.

I'm driving back down to Anaheim C.A. to see M5Jed again.

Before the trip I'll be re-doing the exhaust from Jed's Headers back. Adding extruded bungs for the pre-cat O2 sensors to 2.5" stainless piping, an x-pipe to 2 magnaflow 4" mufflers cut and welded together at one end at a 45° angle to act like a resonator, out to dual-quad tips (unless anyone wants to give me their 4.6is exhaust tips for free...?.?.?

After that, I'm off to DUDMD's house of Vroom to find my missing 20hp and tune the engine to squeeze the shizz out of these headers and see what kind of real-world gains are possible.

The suspension was refreshed recently so L.A.'s freeways won't destroy my car driving.

Should be a fun few weeks.

I hope to have answers to all our questions before March 11th, when I get back.

Side note:

I know this thread died quickly with no answers but after swapping engines, forking out $ for headers and suspension, I was pretty tapped out.

I detail boats for a living. Sometimes even I prioritize. In this case, my employees and the business got all my attention this last year.

I've been embarrassed to post anything because I didn't have much to contribute.

Still have the 4.6is e53 but now ready to sell it. Now that everything was replaced under the hood.

Don't give up on me, I haven't.

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'03 4.6is (the wife' s ride)