196,000

That's right ladies and gents my 855 has hit the 196,000 mile mark as of yesterday morning at 6:45 AM. This reminds me I need to get a 100,000 mile badge for this one.

Intake system

Well in my last post I said that I removed my intake manifold . Well this post is basically some pictures of the project which ended in success.

Here we see the fresh air hose has been disconnected. The fresh air hose connects the air box to the throttle body. On the right side of the plastic elbow we see the flame trap housing which was later replaced.






Here we see the old flame trap housing after a cleaning as well as a new housing along with the actual flame trap installed.

The fuel rail and throttle body have now been removed from the intake manifold. All that holds the manifold in are the bolts on the underside of the manifold. One holds the dipstick tube a second secures the manifold to the engine the last two bolts hold the EGR to the manifold. The first two bolts are probably best accessed from underneath the car while the EGR bolts can only be accessed by struggling to get a wrench or socket on the bolts by snaking a hand down under the manifold.

The manifold has finally been removed. The large black plastic box attached to the block is the vent box which is where the tube that I broke connects into.









Looking into the manifold we see that crud had built up over the years, not a terrible amount, but while I've had the manifold off I figured I'd give it a good cleaning.














I also took the opportunity to clean the outer portion as well. I would have preferred it to clean up a little better but I really can't complain too much.









While I was on a cleaning spurt I looked at the intake valves. While they did have a little and I mean a little build up I left them alone because I was running low on time and since there was barely any build up it didn't seem worth the time.






When it was time to put everything back together I noticed two things. First, there were eight holes in my engine block; however, I only had seven bolts. I then noticed that the new gasket wasn't the same as the old one. I scrambled around for a bit and came to the conclusion that the gasket wasn't an issue and since it covered up one of the bolt holes it solved my bolt number mismatch.



Everything bolted back together real nicely and I must say that this job really doesn't take too long assuming you can find all of the bolts. My biggest setback was merely trying to find all of the bolts that connected the manifold to the rest of the car.