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      06-16-2015, 11:57 PM   #67
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Axiom is gone I read somewhere on here... My wife is buying me these headers for Father's Day!!! How does it sound with your secondaries off hack?
Whats the power curve 3K, 4K up to what?? Hook it up with more recent updates
I've had the AFE catted headers installed about two months ago. When I first had them installed I had the secondary cat delete with the BMW performance exhaust and it was friggin loud. My first course of action was to have 9-inch resonators installed on the mid pipes, which didn't help much, I then reinstalled the secondary cats, which toned it down to an acceptable level, until about 4,000 RPM. I then purchased the Dinan exhaust system, which helped but I ended up installing a baffle insert in the Y pipe. The increase in low and mid-range power was quite noticeable. Obviously, everyone has a different level of tolerance for noise, but the one thing I can assure you, if you are running with the secondary cat delete and the PE, it will be substantially louder. Have fun!
Thanks man... Yeah I'm excited to get it, I'm hoping the noise will not bother me. I don't know how AA headers can be tolerable with 2ndary cat delete + PE, wow... I am crossing my fingers that the AFE header+AFE mid pipes will be tolerable enough.. I do have the oem mid-pipes worst case.
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anyone know if the afe headers will pass visual here in cali?... anyone?? anyone at all????
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well what headers did a pre-facelift EU N52 use then? because either way, both of them look like 215hp for the 325 and 255 for the 330i. If the part numbers are different and they supposedly flow better why is there no real difference in output?

I tried cross referencing all of the face lift N52 manifolds for the European market and none of them show up as ever being used here, so the assertion that the EU market switched to US headers and lost power appears to be false.
Ive seen the oem E60 530 N52 headers, they use a tubular collector instead of a manifold collector.
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anyone know if the afe headers will pass visual here in cali?... anyone?? anyone at all????
Bring it to a smog shop in its shipped box and say "here does this pass visual"?
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Been too lazy. Trying to sort this emissions issue first.
Ahhh...dyno. Dyno dyno?
Yes, dear. I promise. This month.
Yo hack I'm counting the days!!! What's up with the update homie?!?!?!?!


What's crazy is AFE HEADER 48-36307 was 1190.14 now it's 1400-1500$$ WTF.. I'm waiting for it to go down hopefully soon then I'll buy
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Yo hack I'm counting the days!!! What's up with the update homie?!?!?!?!


What's crazy is AFE HEADER 48-36307 was 1190.14 now it's 1400-1500$$ WTF.. I'm waiting for it to go down hopefully soon then I'll buy
Haha, I am actually dyno'ing tomorrow. I resolved an exhaust leak issue so if not tomorrow, 100% next week.

I like to lie and lead people on. It works with females, let's see how car nuts handle it.
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Amused AFE labels your car as a 2.8L.
Are you questioning my amazing boring in house technology!?
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Amused AFE labels your car as a 2.8L.
Are you questioning my amazing boring in house technology!?
Hack stop leading us on... Get her done!!!!!!
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Haha, I am actually dyno'ing tomorrow. I resolved an exhaust leak issue so if not tomorrow, 100% next week.

I like to lie and lead people on. It works with females, let's see how car nuts handle it.
I'm still waiting on this you phony

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Haha, I am actually dyno'ing tomorrow. I resolved an exhaust leak issue so if not tomorrow, 100% next week.

I like to lie and lead people on. It works with females, let's see how car nuts handle it.
I'm still waiting on this you phony

I swear on 2 pound 8 oz baby Jesus I'm just now getting my car codeless.
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It's not like we are waiting or anything, it's cool.
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It's not like we are waiting or anything, it's cool.


THURSDAY.

I have a date with the Dyno.

Tune is working very, very well. I suspect good things.

Or, I'm just leading you on again.

Te-he-he.
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THURSDAY.

I have a date with the Dyno.

Tune is working very, very well. I suspect good things.

Or, I'm just leading you on again.

Te-he-he.

Are you a woman? The anount of leading on you do
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Are you a woman? The anount of leading on you do


Give me a break, I just feel so bloated this time of the month.
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Give me a break, I just feel so bloated this time of the month.


All joking aside...seriously? How long for a dyno? I have a perfect meme for you, but I'm at work and the internet sucks for everything except E90Post.
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All joking aside...seriously? How long for a dyno? I have a perfect meme for you, but I'm at work and the internet sucks for everything except E90Post.
That avatar should be RX78-2 or Nu Gundam. Just saying.
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That avatar should be RX78-2 or Nu Gundam. Just saying.
Everybody knows that the RX-0 is the most powerful UC Gundam ever and overall it comes to a tie with the GNT-0000 00 QAN(T), just saying.
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Everybody knows that the RX-0 is the most powerful UC Gundam ever and overall it comes to a tie with the GNT-0000 00 QAN(T), just saying.
Uhh, not when Amuro Ray is the pilot - the best ever, UC or otherwise.
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Uhh, not when Amuro Ray is the pilot - the best ever, UC or otherwise.
Setsuna ties with Amuro, but Banagher is no slouch either.
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anyone know if the afe headers will pass visual here in cali?... anyone?? anyone at all????
No on that. in order to pass visual, the headers need a CARB label welded onto them. There is a lot of testing required to get that (not to mentions only specific types of aftermarket catylists are allowed to be used in California).

A better question is "how stock do these headers look". if they look close to stock, a smog tech may not notice (or care) and just test your car anyway.
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