well for starters congrats on the purchase and welcome to han. you'll learn very fast that honda could mess up a wet dream with some of the designs they've implemented, but either way i love my teg and the vw has the same tendencies to mess up a wet dream by complicating the simplest task(for example the headlight replacement in a bug). as for a header i would go for exhaust before header unless you're trying to keep the stock muffler sound it's your ride so what are you looking for out of the teg?