Help with PG manifold install!

[CWPeer]

Got as far as removing the top heatshield of the stock manifold and am not sure how to proceed. I am pretty sure I can get 13 of the 14 bolts out...it's that one underneath the two far runners that I can't figure out how to get to.

I am planning on adding a Corksport DP soon and am now seeing that the install for that should probably go along with this manifold, but I just gotta know how the hell anyone else got to that bolt?!

I have searched this and other MS3 sites trying to see install pics and stuff, but no one really mentioned this problem...am I missing something here?

Thanks...

 

[bykeryder4life]

go under the car? f you have the stock DP in the access might be different but on my car we got underneath it at one point to get at a bolt.

 

[TheDoc]

You need a racheting, floppy head, 14mm wrench like these:

Make sure to put neverseize on every nut and bolt before reinstalling them.

 

[H3br3w_Ham3r]

You need a racheting, floppy head, 14mm wrench like these:

Make sure to put neverseize on every nut and bolt before reinstalling them.

Some of my favorite tools right there.... I love being able to reach stuff that my friends can't.

 

[bykeryder4life]

^^^oh yeah. those are a must for the job. and a good swivel socket set.

 

[CWPeer]

Stock DP on right now, so maybe that's why this is trickier?

Thanks for the tip about those wrenches, gonna pick some up today.

I am just going to wait and do the manifold install at the same time I put the DP on. It looks like alot of the work is redundant and this seems like a job you only want to do once.

Does anyone know of a how-to that's been posted on the PG manifold? That would be helpful too.

 

[Anna-chan]

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123752349

 

[TheDoc]

I never did a how-to because it is fairly straight-forward. The hardest parts are really difficult to translate via cell phone pictures. If you have any questions during the install process, feel free to PM me.

 

[krnage]

in the same boat, attempted install but got stuck on having the right tools obviously to remove the nuts from the mani/engine side

pm sent TheDoc

 

[BoostedSpd6]

Hinged head 14mm racheting wrench FTW.. i also used and inverted E-20 torx wrench for more leverage.

 

[krnage]

thanks will go out tomorrow and see what i can find

cheers for the help!