HEY GUYS,

I have seen the installation video of this bolt on... Seems fairly easy... I'm getting up 6am PST to install tomorrow. However i have one little problem... I stopped by AutoZone to loan a torque wrench... It comes to my attention that it only adjusts in Foot/Pounds.... I call autozone and they told me... do the math...from Feet to Inches... so...yeah i'm better off asking this..

how the hell do i set it to 100lbs per Inch???

 

do I need to get a diff. Wrench???

 

1 ft/LB = 12 Inch/LBs

so 100 inch/Lbs = 8.3 Ft/lb

I have never seen a ft/lb torque wrench that can measure as low as 8 ft/lbs, nor do I think you should use one at that low a setting even if it did exist. So go find an inch/lbs torque wrench and DO NOT USE that ft/lbs torque wrench.

The guys at napa/autozone/advanced auto...ect are sometimes idiots. I got into an argument a while ago with one because he didnt understand the difference between gear oil and motor oil.

 

yeah that's the same Math i Used and the wrench does not goes down to 8FT/lb. I will look for another one. Thx Bud.,

 

Just use a nut driver and tighten the bolts down by hand. I've done numerous spacer installs and have never used a torque wrench. You can get between 90-100 in/lbs by hand which is plenty to hold that sucker down. Remember to go back a couple of weeks after the install and re-tighten all the bolts.

 

This...^...is the kinda reply you'll always get when the monkey behind the counter doesn't know answer. Take it back to Autozone and say, "Show Me!" Since you're renting it from them you may as well know how to use it!!
Gary

 

I wouldnt suggest telling him to tighten it by hand. I doubt he knows what 100 inch/lbs feels like and he might end up over tightening and stripping his lower plenum and manifold

 

If he uses a nut driver, (the kind that is just like a screwdriver but for nuts ), it is almost impossible to strip the lower plenum or crack anything. It is really hard to get more than 100 in/lbs out of one of those. I doubt a gorilla could even do it. I'm sure when you read the previous post you missed the part about the nut driver and just figured he was suggesting to use a socket wrench. But to clarify for the OP, you need one of these if you aren't going to use a torque wrench:


but even still, OP don't you have a northern tool or harbor freight near you where you can pick up a basic in/lb torque wrench? I bought one from sears a few years back and I paid like $60 but its good quality and I have used it so many times since (so many intake manifold mods on so many cars plus I have taken mine off a few times for other projects)
It is a tool you should consider owning.




edit: just to make sure I was giving out bad information, I went out and tightened a 10mm bolt into an extra vq35 intake manifold I had lying around with a nut driver and did it as hard as I felt comfortable and then set the torque wrench for 85 in/lbs and still tightened it more with the wrench. It turned about 10 degrees past what I could do with the nut driver. Then I torqued it to 100 in/lbs and tried to remove it with the nut driver; no way in hell. Now I'm not that strong and Im sure people with big hands could do a bit more than me but a nut driver is a safe bet if people can't afford a torque wrench. Still if you can, just buy one.

 

I agree with playa above, it would be almost impossible to over tighten any bolt by hand. Plus, the Motordyne instructions mention using a nut driver if you don't have an in/lb wrench so I didn't just pull that out of my butt.

 

I ended up going back to the autozone they did have a smaller wrench... they just had to look for it... I'm done with the installation.

Thx guys.

 

awesome!

 

did mine by hand. idk bout others but i had to retorque the bolts a few times in the following days until they finally settled and stayed tight

 

Please don't use a Foot/lb torque wrench. Mines barely worked when having the setting that low converting to inch pounds. If anything get a nut driver like posted above. Most people wont be able to tighten it more than 100 inch pounds which will be fine for the install.