Dzenan. Either get your canbus board out to market. Or swallow your pride and integrate motiv reflex into bm3. You have an idea on how long its gonna take them spiral?
Don't overthink it. Just go catless. Deal with the CEL and smell, which is not bad at all imo. EZ swapping back to OEM for emissions readiness. CEL goes away after ~30 miles of driving maybe more. Sound is a bit louder but still tame in normal mode and idle, cops still haven't pulled me...
I'm actually not that envouse with the TU2. Doesn't look like the manifold flows all that well, cylinder 6 looks very constricted and heard it went back to a 2 port valvetrain. What's the verdict on the electronic-vanos tho, is it any better? Maybe the TU2 hpfp would be a cheap upgrade on the...