new throttle body and intake manifold

[pervasto]

i'm about to buy a new intake manifold and TB from k-mod but i was wondering who has done this? how hard was it to install? was there a noticeable increase in hp? and what kind of parts did you buy?
I am going to buy the skunk 2 and an STR 65mm throttle body i would appericiate an input thanks

[shepherd79]

i hope you know what you are doing. the intake manifold is from B series motors. you will have to modify unless K-mod will do it for you. you will have to figure out about few emission controls that you to keep your car running.
so do a research before you jump on something you don't know about.

[pervasto]

well k-mod said it should bolt right up and no modification is required

[Justin86]

no you have to redrill some holes and port match the head. He might have allready redrilled the holes, but you still have to get the head port matched.

[othick]

I just installed a b16 manifold on my car last week and the manifold did bolt on by drilling a few new holes. You also need a b16 fuel rail. There was a lot of re-arranging of the coolant lines. I also had to tap a few new vaccum lines into the b16 manifold and the a20 tps did not fit the b16 throttle body I had to get some welding done on it. The a20 throttle cable also didn't fit the b16 manifold and I had to get a bracket welded on. I also had to port match the head to the manifold. Your intake will also sit in a different spot. I used a aem fuel rail on mine and I had to make a new fuel line and tap out fuel rail to fit a a20 pressure regualtor. It turned out to be a little more time consuming than I thought but when it was done it looked great and the car runs really good. Too bad the next day after it was done I bought a mr2 and now I'm getting rid of my accord and taking off all the go fast parts. So you will soon see my b16 manifold/fuel rail on e-bay.

[Justin86]

what type manifold do you have, stock, aftermarket???????

[pervasto]

stock manifold but what about the stuff they sell specifically for our cars does that need some porting such as these parts http://www.kmodifiedracing.com/produ...ord/index.html

[othick]

I used a stock b16 intakemanifold/throttle body and the head needed a little porting to line up perfectly. I'll actually try to put some pics up, it looks pretty nice.

[pervasto]

yeah that would be great oh and did you feel a diiference in the hp gain or none at all

[othick]

The funny thing is the car seems to pull better in the low end and midrange. It's feels much quicker at 4000rpm but about the same past 5500rpm. I thought it would be the opposite since I also ported the head a lot. I think the problem is I still have a stock exhaust. I was going to mess around with my cam timing on the dyno but I'm in the process of taking it all apart now so it doesn't matter. I sold my cam yesterday and I'm putting my cam gear on e-bay tommorrow followed by this manifold. It sucks I never dyno'd it since I have a baseline to go by, oh well.