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Old 04-26-2006, 08:18 PM
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I'm a little confused here right about now. I just recieved my new FAST 90 and NW90 tb (sweet pieces by the way) The intake is obviously fully assembled. My question is how I bolt this down to the heads.

The bolts with nuts on them, do I remove the nuts and just bolt it to the heads?

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hahaha welcome to my world...I dont think I have even been so confused after reading those directions.

Obviously you need to remove the nuts...I figured that much out.

But there is something with the gasket for the TB. When I have it in there the NW tb does not want to sit flush against it, then I take the gasket out - perfect!

I dont know why this is so confusing to me?!
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You need to remove the nuts from the long bolts, and also might want to tighten the smaller nuts/bolts at the front and back. After you put the manifold in place, you stick the long bolts in the holes again and they will screw into the threads.

BTW - When did you order your TB, and when exactly did you get it?
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Thanks for the reply. Thats what I thought I had to do, just wanted to make sure. As for the throttle body. I ordered the intake, the throttle body and my 37lb injectors on Saturday night (4/22/06) and recieved my injectors yesterday and the intake and tb today!
Injectors were ordered directly from racetronix and the intake/tb were ordered from ls1speed.
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whats up with the TB not fitting though?

is the gasket really needed?
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nevermind...I am retarded after all.
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Make DAMN sure you swap out the valley cover bolts with the supplied allen button head bolts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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aight theres where I was confused as well...why didnt it just come with the allen heads in the first place? I am really lost on what I am swapping in and out right now for some reason
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Originally Posted by Lithium
aight theres where I was confused as well...why didnt it just come with the allen heads in the first place?
What?
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Originally Posted by Lithium
aight theres where I was confused as well...why didnt it just come with the allen heads in the first place? I am really lost on what I am swapping in and out right now for some reason
They should have been in the bottom of the box that the manifold came in. Mine has them, as well as a whole other set of hardware.
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it says you need to remove some screws to put in different ones correct? or did I read that wrong?
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Originally Posted by Lithium
it says you need to remove some screws to put in different ones correct? or did I read that wrong?
Yeah remove the 10mm bolts from your valley cover and replace them with the supplied black alled head button bolts.
Or else the intake will NOT mate to the heads and you will have a HUGE vacum leak.
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Originally Posted by SUX2BU
Yeah remove the 10mm bolts from your valley cover and replace them with the supplied black alled head button bolts.
Or else the intake will NOT mate to the heads and you will have a HUGE vacum leak.
oh alright...must of been the directions they sent me. just confused the hell out of me for some reason


I appreciate it!
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Jesus Kory.....haha.
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
Jesus Kory.....haha.

hahaha
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Actually I put mine on without those...then went back 3 months later and put them on once I figured out what they were for.
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hahaha yes! I knew you would slip up sooner or later
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okay maybe im not understanding but I bought a fast intake manifold and i installed it using the supplied bolts that connect the intake to the heads. I replaced the valley cover with a Z06 PCV conversion. I never changed any bolts on the valley cover. Everything seems to be working fine. Are you saying that your supposed to change the bolts on the valley cover with other bolts? If so i dont know but i dont have a huge vacuum leak (at least not one i know about!)
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Originally Posted by noblesramair
okay maybe im not understanding but I bought a fast intake manifold and i installed it using the supplied bolts that connect the intake to the heads. I replaced the valley cover with a Z06 PCV conversion. I never changed any bolts on the valley cover. Everything seems to be working fine. Are you saying that your supposed to change the bolts on the valley cover with other bolts? If so i dont know but i dont have a huge vacuum leak (at least not one i know about!)
Well the LS6 valley cover may be thiner so the bolts don't stick up as high. But yeah your supposed to swap the bolts out. I've swapped out those bolts on about 5 cars that the previous installers doidn't swap out the bolts. The people came to me with idling issues. the bolts solved all of them.
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Well the LS6 valley cover may be thiner so the bolts don't stick up as high. But yeah your supposed to swap the bolts out. I've swapped out those bolts on about 5 cars that the previous installers doidn't swap out the bolts. The people came to me with idling issues. the bolts solved all of them.
Huh, thats interesting! Does anybody know if the LS6 valley cover is in fact thinner. I'm curious if anything would change if i did in fact change the bolts.




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