It's not abnormal to have splice showing, the stock ti driveshaft probably had 1.5" of spline showing on mine before my swap. How much spline is not showing on yours? Middle plug, known as the X69 connector, from the donor is all ASC wiring as far as im aware. I left the middle plug hanging there, my car runs great. I don't have ASC and don't plan to ever try and enable it though. __________________ ~Dave~ 98 328ti Morea Grun slicktop 11 128i space gray slicktop 13 JGC WK2 Deep Cherry Search | RealOEM |