i was tightening my manifold bolts and used a 13mm wrench on the farthers bolt to the right (facing the car's rear with the hood open) to tighten all the bolts. the top of stock bolt used to hold the hrc manifold fartthest to the right tore off!!!

should i by worried or am i ok?

-------jezreel
hrc stage 1, sfmu, ml, prokits, egt, boost gauge, apexi tt, costum dp, dynotune fp gauge. gst muff, turbo spoiler

well your going to want to fix it soon. you dont want to warp your hrc manifold and have a exhaust leak...
Michael
99gs
HRC Stage IV 8-Injector Setup
2GNT Member #32

better sell your car to me for cheep...no hope for it now :)

so how do i go about to get this off


-------jezreel
hrc stage 1, sfmu, ml, prokits, egt, boost gauge, apexi tt, costum dp, dynotune fp gauge. gst muff, turbo spoiler

I have had some issues with bolts breaking on the head. I recommend taking off the manifold. If enough of the broken bolt is still sticking out of the head, just get some vice-grips and twist that thing out. If it broke off further in, you may have to use an easy-out and possibly have to heli-coil the hole.

Its a pain to take off the manifild if you have not done it before, but just take your time and you should be ok.

>I have had some issues with bolts breaking on the head. I
>recommend taking off the manifold. If enough of the broken
>bolt is still sticking out of the head, just get some
>vice-grips and twist that thing out. If it broke off further
>in, you may have to use an easy-out and possibly have to
>heli-coil the hole.
>
>Its a pain to take off the manifild if you have not done it
>before, but just take your time and you should be ok.

whats an easy out and heli-coil? i'll swing by homedepot and check what they have over there.


-------jezreel
hrc stage 1, sfmu, ml, prokits, egt, boost gauge, apexi tt, costum dp, dynotune fp gauge. gst muff, turbo spoiler

>whats an easy out and heli-coil? i'll swing by homedepot and
>check what they have over there.

just explain to them what happened and ask for the easy out. Don't helicoil unless you have to. It's not hard but then again its NOT fun imo.