Short recap to the history of my 02.  Original M20 motor swap was done in 2005 at Casey Motorsports in Petaluma, California.  We did it in a weekend and was a quick and dirty install.  I left the original M10 exhaust and used that for... 18 years.  I can't believe it's been that long, but it's been that long.  I've been wanting to get another exhaust for some time now and since arriving in the Netherlands a new friend told me he could do it.  I then started to look around for a header and found a Black Friday deal on Schmiedmann BMW for 200 euros.  The only issue, it was for an e30 not an 02. 

When we finally started to fit them into the 02 we initially thought we'd cuttem up and reshape, but in the end Wicher of Summa Garage in Purmerend heated them super hot to bend them into place.  They look great and definitely look better than chopping them up, in my opinion.  This took the most amount of time and there were complications of course.  So after a few set backs the headers eventually cleared the steering helper and he could start in on the center section.  The whole system looks like a piece of art, way more so than I was expecting.  After 18 years, I pulled the trigga and this is what I got! 

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It definitely sounds healthy.  (Hopefully the video works.) And yeah it was worth it