Quote Originally Posted by rob101
mate i wish i had SS studs on the m50 manifolds
one bloody bastard nut got stuck and stripped a stud so i had to pull the manifold off. PS after 14 years my studs looked like shite, just goes to show they didn't make the m50s etc. like the m30 (idol of bmw engine engineering)
Nah... M30 was just made for so long they had heaps of time to iron out the little things like this the right way. I was amazed to see studs that came off the car so easily. But to be fair exhaust shops wreck them too. They don't bother using new nuts or using anti-seize or anything like that- whack it off and if it fits back, whack it back on again. I regret the day I went to see those guys at HiTech mufflers, a little while ago Kriss and I were changing the centre bearing and I was glad to have the opportunity to pull it clean off and refit it properly. However I found that it was impossible to refit properly. They had bent the rear pipes incorrectly in the first palce and mangled the supports to give it more clearance. No wonder I had taken it back twice already and it still banged something underneath the car. I felt like going back and hassling them real bad but I can't risk them touching my baby again... Nick