First we drain all the coolant from the radiator and the block.

Second I removed my Golden Eagle vaccum manifold. (many can skip this step.)

Here you can see where it was removed from.

Removed the section of charge piping that connects to the throttle body.

As you can see its no longer here.

Removing fuel line from the pressure regulator.

Line removed from the fuel filter. Cover the filter so that nothing will come in contact with the exposed fuel.

Now remove the 3 10mm nuts that hold the fuel rail to the manifold and remove the fuel system.

Next disconnect the throttle cable.

Next we get under the car to remove the support bracket from the manifold. If you need more info on this check out the "Catch Can Install".

In order to remove the entire manifold (as seen here) you need to remove any vaccume lines and coolant lines connected to it. (pretty self explanitory). you will also need to pull out or move out of the way the small black canister that is located under t

After its removed you need to use a razor blade and clean off any left over gasket that is still stuck to the block.

Here is a bypass tube that ran under the stock manifold. I opted to remove this piece as you cant use the manifold support on the new manifold.

Here you can see I just used a plain piece of coolant hose.

Here you can see that Ive put on the hondata gasket. Its natuarally bowd like that out of the package.

Then you can slide the new manifold into place. At this point I have already swapped over the various sensors and the fuel system from the old manifold. It should be pretty obvious. If you cant figure it out just by looking at the 2 then youre probably al

Now you need to put all of the 12mm nuts back on. Torque them slightly over stock settings. I suggest about 20-25 ft lbs. Because of the hondata spacer and the casting of the manifold I was unable to put the top center nut back on as the threads wouldnt c

The PVC nipple has moved from underneath the old manifold to a convenient new location on top of the manifold.

I had to ghetto rig my vaccum manifold back into place since Skunk2 removed my origional mounting point.

See how nicely it looks here though. Perhaps sometime down the road Ill actualy have a nice looking mount made up out of aluminum. Oh as for the reason Ive looped 2 nipples on the manifold its bcause I used the other small nipples for the boost gauge and

Now put the new throttle body gasket into place and attach the throttle body. You will need four #8 metric bolts. You can see here that I decided on stainless hex head bolts. Then plug in your map sensor and TPS.

Next attach the charge pipe and the throttle cable. The new manifold sits higher so hoepfully you have some slack in your charge piping. Also at a glance it looks like the throttle cable bracket sits too high and wont clear the hood. IT WILL CLEAR THE HOO

And there you have it. It took me about 7 hours to do the swap. I did have to cut my own throttle body gasket though (not pictured cause I dont reccomend it) and I had to run to the hardware store 2times for the right bolts. I also cleaned up a bit of my

After the swap I seemed to have a good deal more of vibration, especially in the pedals (later fount to be a rubbing issue of my oil relocation kit rubbing on my clutch cylinder). Overall Im pleased with the new manifold. Soon Ill need to go get some dyno