Check your plenum bolts if you have a spacer
, maybe around the 20 in/lb range... the top 6 had a drop of loctite in it too!.
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Hahaha....I'm making everyone paranoid!!!!! I'm just glad that I caught it in time and that by my sharing it with everyone...everyone is catching theirs. This is my contribution to the board for the next year or so 
Anyone have a kinetix plenum and have this problem? I am leaning towards the Kinetix for my 05 6MT, instead of a spacer. Now I hear this problem, and it makes me worry as the Kinetix is not even metal. can it flex enough to make the bolts loosen? If a spacer is causing problems, where everything is aluminum, how will a "plastic" plenum cover behave?
Anyone have the bolt pattern/order you're to tighten them down in? Can't remember where I stored my instructions when I got the spacer from Tony. Putting in the JDM Battery Cover tomorrow, will check the bolts while I'm at it.
Originally Posted by marty315
Anyone have the bolt pattern/order you're to tighten them down in? Can't remember where I stored my instructions when I got the spacer from Tony. Putting in the JDM Battery Cover tomorrow, will check the bolts while I'm at it.
http://motordyneengineering.com/manual.pdf
thanks for the heads up guys,
i just checked mine and they all needed about 1 full turn or so. Not too bad but i haven't driven it yet to see if theres a difference in performance.
i just checked mine and they all needed about 1 full turn or so. Not too bad but i haven't driven it yet to see if theres a difference in performance.
For the ones that were loose, how long ago did you install your spacer? And how about the ones that were still tight, how long ago for you? I wonder if this is an issue that arises after the spacer has been installed for a longer period of time. 
Originally Posted by GixxerSteve
For the ones that were loose, how long ago did you install your spacer? And how about the ones that were still tight, how long ago for you? I wonder if this is an issue that arises after the spacer has been installed for a longer period of time.
just checked mine, and all of them where loose. but motordyne states in their installation instructions that the bolts will become a bit looser but there is no need to retighten. but i retorqued all mine just in case
Originally Posted by GixxerSteve
For the ones that were loose, how long ago did you install your spacer? And how about the ones that were still tight, how long ago for you? I wonder if this is an issue that arises after the spacer has been installed for a longer period of time.