mx-5 manifold/exhaust change
Tuesday 20th February 2007
as the title says, how easy is it to change the manifold and exhaust on a mk1 mx-5 1.6?? planning on doing it on weekend
Wednesday 21st February 2007
well thats my saturday afternoon planned out then, any tips?????
Wednesday 21st February 2007
Careful with the manifold studs when removing them. Not alot can go wrong really. Are you fitting a stainless one or standard? If standard remove the heatshields as they just end up breaking at rattling away!
Mike
Thursday 22nd February 2007
fitting a stainless one, can i just remove the heatshields?
Saturday 24th February 2007
The heatshields wont fit on the stainless one anyways so no probs there! My stainless 4-2-1 was very easy to fit. Might be worth fitting new gaskets betwen the head/manifold and downpipe/cat
Mike
Saturday 24th February 2007
Yea have all new gaskets for the manifold etc..... had nightmare job removing the exhaust, turns out my car has extra bracing between the rear shocks and the back box couldnt be removed at first. Ended up taking an angle grinder to it!!!!!!
Sunday 25th February 2007
had some good and bad news today regarding the manifold/exhaust change.........first off the bloody manifold did not fit at all!!!! how annoyed was I to find after removing everything that it was the wrong one.......then a bit of good news, it turns out after thoroughly checking the car, that at some point it has had a 1.8 transplant in place of the 1.6!!!!!! didnt recognise the new engine because the only way i can tell them apart was the air box, and as mine came with a pipercross instead of the standard one i ididnt know it had been changed........so if anyone wants a stainless steel manifold for a 1.6 mk 1 mx-5 drop me a line
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