Happy to help out where I can. Odds are once the nuts are removed, it will be a girl.
No seriousely, it should come apart with maybe a tap from a resin head hammer or a timber drift. You might even find the studs come out of the casting with the nuts still attached. Don’t worry this is common. The central part of the stud will be a blank with a thread on each end. You might find you need to separate the dump pipe from the exhaust as well in order to remove the whole assembly as there won’t be enough room to manoeuvre the turbo from the dump pipe given the stud length. I would suggest this anyway, as you can take the opportunity to clean the carbon from inside the dump pipe. If you intend to do a cat delete (which I don’t advocate publicly) now is the time as it will probably be just downstream of the dump pipe where the exhaust is still hot.
Take care to keep the turbo internals clean whilst installing. Very important to Prime the turbo with clean engine oil before starting for the first time.
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