Help Fitting New Manifold on 8v Driver (carb)!!!!

[richardhammond]

Hi all I have bought a Raceland Manifold and stanless steel exhust i have just take the old exhust off up to the cat. I have now come to the manifold opened the bonet and relised that i cant take the manifold off cos the inlet manifold is in the whay and the carb is bolted on top of the inlet manifold. So what should i do should i brave taking the inlet manifold off with the carb or well i dont know!?)*£!£^& Please help me what do i do?? PS i only have axle stands!!!!

[dirk]

previous experience of doing the manifold(s) on my Driver is that to get to all of the bolts on the exhaust manifold, the inlet needs to be off!removing the carb is simple enough, disconnect everything either labelling it or remembering where it all goes!earths, vac pipes etc. and then the bolts in the bottom of it and lift it out and the inlet isn't too hard to do as nothing should be seized but actually finding the holes is sometimes tricky, you'll need a long allen key to reach them and then, once thats off you can get to the upper bolts on the exhaust mani and the bottom ones will need to be got at from under the car. All i can say is enjoy!hope this has helped!

[cняis]

i dont envy you!

[VeeDubGTI16v]

you can leave the carb ontop if you want. this is an arse of a job getting to the allen bolts is very tricky, dont round them off!

[Diamond Hell]

Remember doing this job the first time - it was like a whole new world of pain!

There's one bolt in particular that you need a ridiculously long allen key/bit to get to.  I used a bit and a 1/4" drive socket and long extension to get mine undone, as my allen keys weren't long enough.

I mirror will help you, too.