Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
here's what you do:
1. let the car cool down, best if left overnight (fuel rail gets pretty hot)
2. jack the car (place jacks on the front, both sides)
3. remove splashguard, bumper & grill
4. start emptying out coolant on a pan from radiator *~1.5gallons*(losen white cap on the bottom of the radiator)
-- at this point you can flush out your coolant and put in new stuff at the end or save the coolant and just put it back in when you're done
5. Remove intake manifold cover (bolts circled in yellow, but you'll be taken off the bolts on top)
6. Unbolt fuel rail (circled in green)
7. Disconnect the small hose on the left (circled in blue)
8. Disconnect sensor and clip (circled in red)
this is a picture of the throttle body with no intake
9. if you have CAI or SRI, remove rubber elbow from throttle body (you may also want to disconnect MAF and physically remove the intake for more room).
10. Remove all four hoses circled in blue and disconnect the sensor in the back
11. You can either remove the teal clip (recommended) or unbolt the bracket (circled in yellow)
12. Proceed by removing any bolts and nuts that attach the throttle body to the intake manifold (circled in green, but i think there are a couple more, not sure)
this is a picture of what it should look like when you remove the throttle body.. be careful not to brake the gasket (teal piece of thin material)
13. remove fuel rail with fuel injectors (plug up the holes ((circled in blue)) with rags or paper towels to avoid getting dirt in there)
14. You can remove the hose (circled in red) to make it easier to maneuver and move the fuel rail
15. Remove the bolts/nuts circled in yellow. There are also some on the bottom that are not shown in the picture. These are hard to reach. (i forgot how many there are, but if you look at the intake manifold, you can tell how many there are and where they are. i think there are 2 bolts and 2 nuts on top and 4 bolts on the bottom.)
alright here comes the tricky stuff...
Okay here's what happens now:
16. Crawl under the car and reach for a bracket that should be around where the dotted maroon lines are. it is somewhat L-shaped, with the bottom of the L being at the top of the intake manifold. There are wires and stuff attached to the bracket so be gentle with it. What you want to remove is a nut that attaches the long side of the L to a bar. it looks like this:
the blue L is the bracket, and when you reach under the car you'll want to take off the green nut first.
okay going back to the other picture, notice the two hoses that go under the intake manifold, the ones with pink and light blue dotted lines. the light blue one is actually a metal hose that is not attached to the intake manifold, but it gets in the way of the pink hose. the pink hose IS attached to the intake manifold, and is kind of a pain in the ass to take off. use needle nose pliars to pinch the clamp and a flat head screw driver to push it out of the way.
the intake manifold should now be pretty much lose, assuming you pulled it hard enough for the pink hose to get past the light blue one. By now you should be sweaty, mad, and thinking about kicking the cat. don't. theres a trick to pulling the intake manifold out. you get the right side lose (facing the engine) and you twist the intake manifold counter clockwise and it should come right off. before ripping it off remember that you only took off one side of the bracket and now that you can lift the intake manifold a little, it should be easy to remove the 2nd nut (the orange one in the picture). remove the stock gasket (piece of metal) and clean the manifold before puting the hondata one on. put the intake manifold back on, and hook everything back on in reverse order and you're done. wash your hands, hop in the car, and go drive that beast because thats what you do after you mod your car. then go home and get yourself a beer and take a nice nap.
i recommend getting those magnet pointer things that expand in case you drop nuts or bolts around the engine area. flashlights come in handy. on the intake manifold, there are 2 black stoppers where the fuel rail bolts on. make sure those are still on before puting the fuel rail back on, otherwise you'll screw the nuts on too tight and break off some clips on the fuel rail (i was sad).
pogi_ako wrote: your such a dumba$$. you screwed yourself out of $150
i screwed myself? more like i helped everyone else at the cost of losing one customer. installing IMG's isn't my main income, so im not too concerned.... and you were the only sucker... err.. customer.
I don't know about the SI, but on the accord, you don't have to take off the fuel rail. You have just enough wiggle room with the fuel rail on to put on the gasket.
patriarch wrote: For those of you who are interested:
Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
Hey patriarch, nice work!
I would like to convert this into a permanent article so it's easier for people to find in the future - would that be okay with you? I haven't read completely through it but I'll look through it more carefully and see how it matches up with my experience. Maybe there are some shortcuts here and there.... With a guide I don't see it taking more than a coupla hours at most.
patriarch wrote: For those of you who are interested:
Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
Hey patriarch, nice work!
I would like to convert this into a permanent article so it's easier for people to find in the future - would that be okay with you? I haven't read completely through it but I'll look through it more carefully and see how it matches up with my experience. Maybe there are some shortcuts here and there.... With a guide I don't see it taking more than a coupla hours at most.
sure i'd be honored =). feel free to make changes to it.. just as long as i get credit for it ;)
patriarch wrote: For those of you who are interested:
Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
Hey patriarch, nice work!
I would like to convert this into a permanent article so it's easier for people to find in the future - would that be okay with you? I haven't read completely through it but I'll look through it more carefully and see how it matches up with my experience. Maybe there are some shortcuts here and there.... With a guide I don't see it taking more than a coupla hours at most.
sure i'd be honored =). feel free to make changes to it.. just as long as i get credit for it ;)
yeah, you may need to remind me to get this done. it's gonna be a few weeks before I can even begin to start on it. I just wanted to ask you first before I forgot :^)
patriarch wrote: For those of you who are interested:
Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
Hey patriarch, nice work!
I would like to convert this into a permanent article so it's easier for people to find in the future - would that be okay with you? I haven't read completely through it but I'll look through it more carefully and see how it matches up with my experience. Maybe there are some shortcuts here and there.... With a guide I don't see it taking more than a coupla hours at most.
sure i'd be honored =). feel free to make changes to it.. just as long as i get credit for it ;)
yeah, you may need to remind me to get this done. it's gonna be a few weeks before I can even begin to start on it. I just wanted to ask you first before I forgot :^)
hahah sure thing. i'll bring it up every 3 weeks or so
Hey patriarch and everyone else that has done this, I've read about rerouting the coolant lines away from the manifold so they weren't adding heat? Has anyone done this and if so how is it done? My IMG is on the way and I'm probably going to do this surgery on Thurs. or Fri. Any other tips or shortcuts would be appreciated.
patriarch wrote: For those of you who are interested:
Takes about 4-5 hours if you're handy under the hood and know what you're doing. Having the necessary tools will help. Bring a buddy to help you out.
Hey patriarch, nice work!
I would like to convert this into a permanent article so it's easier for people to find in the future - would that be okay with you? I haven't read completely through it but I'll look through it more carefully and see how it matches up with my experience. Maybe there are some shortcuts here and there.... With a guide I don't see it taking more than a coupla hours at most.
sure i'd be honored =). feel free to make changes to it.. just as long as i get credit for it ;)
I thought about it, but damn, I have not driven my car for almost 3 weeks because it's been on jackstands waiting on UPS and FedEx. I'm not ordering ANY more parts for the intake!
My K&N is waiting on the IMG, the IMG is waiting on coolant. My Amsoil install is waiting on a pump. I have a punctured tire and because UPS screwed up, my tire that was supposed to arrive Wednesday won't be here untill Friday, and even if it did come today, I still have to get it mounted and balanced before the car comes off the jackstands. Once the car IS finally rolling I still have to bring it to get aligned.
In ADDITION to all this, my RSX buddy is paralleling me on my stuff so his shifter bushings are waiting on the Comptech Icebox- is waiting on the IMG delivery - waitng on the coolant. The Amsoil is waiting on the pump we are shareing, his clutch master cylinder is waiting for my car to roll out of my garage so we have a place to do it.
We are having to use Google calender to keep up with all this crap.
Long story short - OMG I AM SO GLAD I HAVE A SECOND CAR.
and
NO MORE FRIGG'N PARTS!
I don't think this gasket will help since with the Hondata gasket you're already insulating the intake manifold from the block. Therefore, further insulation between the IM and the TB won't matter.
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