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Todd,

what I meant is that you take both HE's off the car. You use the uncut HE (drivers side) as the jig and bolt the cut flange piecesof the passenger side HE to it. Then you align the cut HE to this setup and weld the flanges back to the cut inlet pipes.

The driver side HE serves as your jig basically. You just have to make sure that the tilt along the input pipes is close to or ar zero. Does that make sense?

The basic flaw of those flip stup adapters is that they are too soft. When you tighten them too much they bend and you loose the seal. The crush gaskets are very soft and don't require much force to compress and seal. But not torquing the srews very much causes you either loose them (ask me how I know) requires to glue them in with locktite. I didn't like that idea either.....

BTW: Are you still interested in the Dual-chip?

Cheers,
Ingo