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manminder · 23rd September 2008, 03:15

Excuse me for a newbie question, How can i tell if i have headers on my M5,I have posted pictures, The car has a Dinan badge,it has dinan writen on the muffler tips.I got the car 3 months ago,thanks in advance>

Blockdoc · 23rd September 2008, 03:22

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Originally Posted by manminder

Excuse me for a newbie question, How can i tell if i have headers on my M5,I have posted pictures, The car has a Dinan badge,it has dinan writen on the muffler tips.I got the car 3 months ago,thanks in advance>

Welcome!

Can't tell from the pics you posted...I see Dinan CAI and a Dinan Front Strut tower brace...can't identify anything else from the angle.

If you exhaust tips say Dinan...you have AT LEAST their Free Flow Exhaust (cans/mufflers etc.)

The headers can really only be seen well from below.

DO you have any paperwork from Dinan?

EIther way, Dinan keeps records of its "badged" vehicles, assuming it is an authentic Dinan badge (you have to accrue "points" toward the badge by buying and installing Dinan parts)

Post a picture from under the car so we can see the exhaust manifold.

Brian

PS. In the third picture, there is a Dinan sticker on the driver's side of the fan housing...what does that say? Can you post a pic of tht?

Blockdoc · 23rd September 2008, 03:29

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Originally Posted by manminder

Excuse me for a newbie question, How can i tell if i have headers on my M5,I have posted pictures, The car has a Dinan badge,it has dinan writen on the muffler tips.I got the car 3 months ago,thanks in advance>

Update....

I was able to zoom in to the picture...I believe I can make out Dinan S and a serial number. This would include...(from Dinan website)

Stage 2 Engine Software; High Flow Cold Air Intake Free Flow Exhaust; Front Strut Tower Brace; Rear Shock Tower Brace; Stage 1 Suspension System; Dinan Pedal Pad Set; Serial Numbered S1 Plaque; Dinan Deck Lid Badge

If headers were added...they were done in addition to the above...

Nice ride

Rallistas · 23rd September 2008, 03:55

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Originally Posted by manminder

Excuse me for a newbie question, How can i tell if i have headers on my M5,I have posted pictures, The car has a Dinan badge,it has dinan writen on the muffler tips.I got the car 3 months ago,thanks in advance>

Looking at the second picture, it looks that you have headers. I cant tell if they are Dinan or not but you have them. The best way to see them is to put the car on a lift.

Take care.

Rallistas

mfizzlenyc · 23rd September 2008, 04:37

it does look like you have headers but they appear to not have the black coating that dinan headers come with but it does not look like the stock headers

put the car on a lift

this is what they look like

Laidback · 23rd September 2008, 04:40

Looks like stock headers...

Blockdoc · 23rd September 2008, 05:26

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Originally Posted by Laidback

Looks like stock headers...

That was my impression too.

I bet it is a standard S1 based on the badge. I would think if it had headers added onto the S1...most people would have gone full S2. In that case, I am sure the OP would have been informed, if only for the seller's price point.

Brian

mfizzlenyc · 23rd September 2008, 05:29

if i could remember the stock headers have a casty look but im not sure

mottati · 23rd September 2008, 06:19

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Originally Posted by mfizzlenyc

it does look like you have headers but they appear to not have the black coating that dinan headers come with but it does not look like the stock headers

put the car on a lift

this is what they look like

dinan stopped using the black coating on later headers.
in the second pic, it looks like headers to me too. Climb under the car and get a pic from below, that is much easier to tell, from the collector area, where the cats attatch.

6spd · 23rd September 2008, 06:43

Looks stock to me