I'm finally gonna swap out the tranny in my 530. While under the car looking over my job I determined dropping down the exhaust is going to be a PITA. It is safe to say that the studs from the exhaust manifolds to the pipes are gonna snap off. Does anybody know if these studs just pound out the back of manifold and you can just pound knew ones back in? Looks like a lot more work than changing a tranny in my old mustang. lol Looks like I have to drop whole exhaust, then heat shields just to get drive shaft off so that I can finally get to the tranny to start unbolting it, lol But then again those silly Germans do have different ways of doing things; maybe thats why we love these cars so much. Any help or insite with this project would sure be appreciated. Thanx...Barry