BolivianFuego

Im about to install this on my lude. Do i have to take out the whole manifold or can i just take it apart and pull out the old manifold and put in the new one without taking it all out?

laughinxxx

take your IM off of the head. Put the Hondata gasket in after scraping off the old gasket. Put IM back on.

ludegirl1004

Here are some pics from my car...have fun scraping off the old gasket.
Before:


After:

94vtecmn

What exactly does this do for the car?

h22a193

lowers intake manifold temps, by blocking some heat from the head. This equals more power!

Keith

How hard was it removing the lower IM? Did you use gasket remover to take off the old gasket? I'm tackling this in a couple of weeks. I'm thinking it should take about 3-4 hours.

Keith

SKDRCR

And what else dou you have to remove to get access to all
the manifold bolts

BolivianFuego

Yes wat else? Im scared im gonna not be able to do this.

mt23vtecbb2

screw that i put mine on wile the motor was out... taking the im off would suck.

93accordEX

yea not to scare you off but I did it with the motor out too and i think it would be damn hard with it in.

fastludeh22

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moter out here also... i drilled a hole in it, so it wouldn't block off the egr there, i blocked it off right at the egr itself, incase i need to have it fuctional i would not have to pull the itm.

TimeRacer

Did it with the motor in, you could take the manifold off in less than an hour and a half. It's the gasket that's a pain in the ****.

H22NOSACC

It took me 5-6 hours with the motor in and a lift, pain in the butt, barley worth it, my suggestion spend the 100 dollars else where first

sharkcohen

I installed my hondata gasket with the engine in the car. I didn't think it was that difficult. One can of spray gasket remover, 3 hours of scraping.

Don Napier

here is a dyno graph of the NextGear gaskets.
http://home.comcast.net/~nextgear/

SsTiNgEr77

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by egCivicDon &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">here is a dyno graph of the NextGear gaskets.
http://home.comcast.net/~nextgear/</TD></TR></TABLE>

negative

Don Napier

Negative
Call the place I dynoed the gaskets at

SKDRCR

so the gasket blocks off the egr??
how can blocking the egr benefit you?<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fastludeh22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">moter out here also... i drilled a hole in it, so it wouldn't block off the egr there, i blocked it off right at the egr itself, incase i need to have it fuctional i would not have to pull the itm.</TD></TR></TABLE>

bew

The NextGear IM Gaskets did in fact make 10whp at Performance Garage in Nashville. I know the owner of the car it was dyno'd on.

SuperSH

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SKDRCR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so the gasket blocks off the egr??
how can blocking the egr benefit you?</TD></TR></TABLE>

The EGR (exhaust gas recurulation) pulls hot exhaust into the intake making the intake charge hotter defeating the purpose of the gasket. It does that to reduce emissions and help prevent detonation to some extent.

SKDRCR

so are you saying that w/o the egr blocked off
there is no benefit to the gasket

SNsLude

sorry to bring it back from the dead haha... but yah, through searching i've read mixed replies about needing to block the egr off and what not. So is it true that if you don't block off the egr valve that it'll deem the hondata IM gasket pointless?

SNsLude

anyone?

AdReNaLiN

It wont deem it pointless - but it will reduce its benefits...

v4lu3s

heat transfers a lot better from metal to metal than from gas to metal, yes the gasket does do good even with a working egr system, though losing the egr makes it evehn cooler.