I am definitely doing this the hard way. I got headers that look like they are the same as those pictures until the flange...I don't have any flanges. I am adding cats there, so I chopped down the headers and MIGed on some vbands. Tonight I hope to weld vbands and 02 bungs onto my new 400 cell cats, and then I can put the front section back on and see if it runs. I haven't run it in a long time.

I have been having a deuce of a time getting the new studs in the head with the two nut method. I get them in, but then when you expect to feel the stud bottom in the hole, the second nut will start turning as well so you never really feel them hit--even though they are probably threaded all the way.

The cat on my daily driver is hitting the end of life. It smells awful, and it's a tin can VW with a 2.5. I can't imagine an m54 with no cat. Probably reeks, and should come with a Prop65 warning.

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2001 E53 3.0 5pd