I went Hondata. They had a Jailbreak event about 90 minutes away so I drove out for that. Got their stage one tune. Shortly after that I contacted @JesterTuned on this forum, and have been with him since. He is awesome. definitely opened the car up more and he's done several revisions to...
I actually did it at a shop, with help from a mechanic. We had air tools so just blasted the top nut off. I was prepared with a pass through wrench, but didn't need to use it.