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If anyone wants those flange nuts, get a group buy going & if you cover post the postage to USA I'll accept them in UK & post them for you. Best if sent to one US location & then sent USPS from their 👍

Beat me to it (easy to say after the event 😉).

I did not remove my center stand to replace my 6th gen headers. Bike stayed on the center stand the whole time. I don't recall thinking it would make a difference, either. The header comes in three pieces - the front exhaust exits and merges as one piece, and then the two rear exits are separate pieces, but they route around the center stand. The post-collection exit to the up-pipe for whatever muffler system you have (Delkevic pipe shown here) routes through the middle of the center stand. You can see it in this photo of my bike right after I finished the install. Note the springs fastening the two rear cylinder exhaust pipes to the main header assembly, and where the header connects to the up-pipe heading to the mufflers. If and when another group order comes together, if your bike has some miles on it, I would consider pre-ordering the studs and nuts for the exhaust flanges from Honda ahead of time. At least a few of the nuts on mine were fused to the studs, which of course is better than fusing to the engine block I suppose. And of course, they were backordered everywhere. This added a week or more of downtime to my install, and I ended up ordering from three different places and waiting to see which ones would get here first. There is someone on eBay in the UK who sells stainless VFR exhaust flange studs, but doesn't ship them to the US.