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well ill be puting a boosted k8 in my car and i wanted to put on the millenia intake manifold but i have to port match it and i dont want to take the heads off but if i dont im gonna get shavings in the cylinders. any suggestions? also i gutted the vris out of the millenia manifold and im wondering if i need the little box underneath the manifold that is conected to the vris solenoids i dont think i do but im just making sure

You will have to port match and would be way easier with the heads removed, And No you wont need anything that is associated with VRIS if you have gutted the IM.

ok i think ill just put the stock manifold back on it wont be worth the time to take the heads off.

THanks

Travis

That's a good question. I know that Probe/Mx-3 owners get a power gain by putting on a ZE manifold on their stock motor. Couldn't hurt to try...

yeah but dont you have to port match it to the heads?

They don't and they do get an improvement of a few hp, but it would be idea. However, it would probably be cheaper to put on ZE heads on a DE rather than porting the DE, but I may be wrong.

Nd4SpdSe wrote:That's a good question. I know that Probe/Mx-3 owners get a power gain by putting on a ZE manifold on their stock motor. Couldn't hurt to try...

Its a small gain, from what I hear, not worth the money. Manifolds go for about $150-$200 shipped.

That much money for only 4whp?

Lol, that's about right, and that's what they do. Maybe on boost it would be more substantial tho

You can purchase phenolic spacers that are already port matched.
cost just over $100. No need to pull the heads when you can just
slap the phenolics on there and be done.

Juans_93_MX3 wrote:

Nd4SpdSe wrote:That's a good question. I know that Probe/Mx-3 owners get a power gain by putting on a ZE manifold on their stock motor. Couldn't hurt to try...

Its a small gain, from what I hear, not worth the money. Manifolds go for about $150-$200 shipped.

That much money for only 4whp?

But if you spend $20 at a scrap yard, thats 4 ponies for $5 a pop.

andy wrote:You can purchase phenolic spacers that are already port matched.
cost just over $100. No need to pull the heads when you can just
slap the phenolics on there and be done.

That doesn't really make much sence. Regardless what spacers you get, either the IM with match the spacers and not the head, or the head with match the spacers but not the IM. The only way to get it to match would be to get the head ported to match, and get the proper gasket (and/or spacers) to match.