Last week I got the car back from VSR, where the headers were installed, the freshly powder coating of valve cover and plenum was done, and much of the engine/engine bay detailing was completed (I was there doing some it myself)

I might add, as has been mentioned on this Forum before, that the euro headers that you get these days from BMW are of much poorer quality that in the past. The weld are not very good, and they are bigger dimensionally (not as compact) and difficult to fit. The worse thing, per Mario at VRS, is the poor alignment both in the horizontal and vertical plane. Generally the only modification he says he typically always made to install a new VSR Dual Cat Center Section to the original Euro headers was a length alteration and a change from a 2 bolt to a 3 bolt flange... but, that is not the case with the current headers BMW is selling! See picture below of the alignment issue that had to be addressed.
Anyway, here's a few shots of the finished work on the engine bay... looks pretty good I think

-RoyW





