Regarding inserts, I'd have expected them to replace the nose cones on the 1st gen sueprcharger kits too, but that didn't happen. Honestly this is a part that would have been just fine if it had been made out of steel. Having 6mm threaded holes in aluminum for part of the exhaust system doesn't seem like a terribly good plan to me. Then again I don't know what materials they are capable of working with.

If I have to have something made to replace this, it's going to include repositioning the EGR valve to somewhere over the pass side valve cover where it should be easy to get to. I hope that they can just get me this block though and I'll put it together and be done with it.

-Tad