Progress made slowly yesterday thanks to some stubborn bolts.
Tried to remove the heatshield on the standard manifold to get to the bolts to remove that.
Top two came off no problems but the lower ones were being the awkward ones, managed to use the sockets I had to remove rounded off nuts to get the one off but other one was not having it and seemed a smaller bolt. So tried prising the heatshield off to no avail. Big crow bar came out and just kept hitting it until it eventually gave in and it came off with the bolt still attached.
With that now removed I could get to the nuts and bolts holding the manifold in place, again one was being stubborn but it came away.
Then the bracket that supports it at the bottom was in the way, managed to push the manifold up so I could remove it, but the bracket was going to be in the way for the replacement, so this had definitely got to come off.
The bolt for this is attached to the block and with the driveshaft going right across you are limited with space to get anything on it to remove it.
Managed to get a ring spanner on it and used another spanner for leverage, but it broke the spanner. So a trip to Halfords to get one of there Advanced spanner’s and tried again. Success and it came off but just this had took forever.
So all the new shiny bits laid out ready to go on, so manifold on first, new poly hangers as well were fitted. Also refitted the ARB at this point again with new SuperPro bushes as well.
Manifold in place it was time to tackle the rest, however as I had used the one hanger to replace the manifold one I only had 3 left, so mounted the back box to check clearance on the Progress ARB and fit the new Poly hangers there as well, also tightened the drop links in place now as well.
Looking like a car again but I only then had 1 exhaust hanger so have ordered a triangular poly one from Tegiwa for the mid pipe so will fit that when it comes in, should take look to bolt up and then I can finally give it a start again, before draining the oil to do a change and hopefully fit the baffles sump, but may go to HondaHQ to get that done, as possibly looking to swap over a freshly powder coated subframe as well.
Few more pics of the rear now with the back box on, this was removed though for security as without the mid pipe in place it’s not actually secure.
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