INA mani - who has fitted one?

[jamiebennett81]

I did have to add an additional crank to an already deep cranked ring spanner to fit JB's INA manifold, but the majority of the nuts were achieved with normal spanners, but a selection of them. Aid of a mirror used at times to help see what you are doing.

so long as the one you have has been machined correctly and not offset, normal spanners and the odd tweek should suffice. Its fiddly tho, no matter how you approach it.

12mm a/f is the nuts I use on these and what come off them generally.

sheesh!! Cheers Bill, sounds like you had more of a nightmare with fitting mine than what originally was said, but muchos thanks for the effort put in!

mind you, I guess it was easy compared to the manifold.......that you had to take off mine

 

[Chino_UK]

Me and my mate Mr Solly will be having a crack at fitting this, unfortunatly, we may not get round to it til the new year now

 

[daves ibiza]

my mate is running one on his mk3 cupra awesome kit. did you get your lifters dude

 

[ibizacupra]

mind you, I guess it was easy compared to the manifold.......that you had to take off mine

oh yes
that tubular did'nt want to come off at all even with pry bars

 

[Damoegan]

.......did you get your lifters dude

Yes mate, not what I thought they were though....

 

[daves ibiza]

thank god lol . what you mean what was you expecting gaz lifters or sumthing

 

[Damoegan]

....what you mean what was you expecting gaz lifters or sumthing

Yep....

Not to worry though..

 

[Ric 2001]

Sorry don't check the forum on a regular basis anymore since my redundancy.

I've finally fitted it but I need to get hold of a flexible extension bar, and had to help a 12mm socket onto the nuts of 2 and 3.

One of my nuts was impossible to get off so I used a 11mm 6 point socket to free it up.

Couldn't tell you if there are any gains as I've done this work while on my sudden career break. So the first expendable was the insurance on the car.

Removed most of the turbo to intercooler pipework and removed the 2x16mm allen screws holdong the turbo to the engine. Also unhooked the exhaust mount so the downpipe could flex abit more.

Removed the lower nuts from under the car and the upper nuts to the manifold from the engine side. Purchased new nuts and new gaskets also.