E36 Performance Headers

[pwrsurge]

Just curious to hear about everyone's opinion on adding aftermarket performance headers to an E36 engine? Any ideas on performance gains? How about exhaust noise increases? Is this a mod worth looking into for an E36 w/ the inline-6 engine? :rolleyes:

[thinair]

It's definately not the first mod you should do. Basically in my opinion look into headers once you've done the following.

Intake
Exhaust
Pullies
M50 intake manifold
track pipe/high flow cat
cams
ASC delete
Fan delete
Bored Throttle Body
Software

The headers will give you a little more power, but not really worth the expense until you've really made the engine breath/spin easier first.

[Miguel]

Originally posted by thinair
It's definately not the first mod you should do. Basically in my opinion look into headers once you've done the following.


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