so yeah, i got my motordyne 5/16 plenum spacer yesterday and me and my friend start installing it at 7:30pm...everything's going OK, when about halfway through, my friend accidentally drops one of the little white plastic spacers into the engine bay...so we figure, no big deal, we'll just take some bolts out of the plastic cover on the bottom of the car and get it out...well , after nearly 2 frickin hours of searching for this little thing, we give up and put the car back together, thinking it'll be fine, since its a pretty minor part and i'll just order a replacement from motordyne...we get everything back in and i start the car...we hear this knocking sound and i'm like "jesus, i killed my car"...then all of a sudden, the white spacer flies out of the engine bay and lands right in front on the car!...needless to say, we were both stunned and quite annoyed that we spent so long looking for it...anyway, we finished up around 11:15 or 11:30...at least the car sounds and feels great

 

Its always something stupid that makes an easy install take forever. Recheck the bolts after you drive it a little because mine were not as tight after the manifold heated /cooled down.

 

lol, glad you had a happy ending at least. So what do you think, caught in the belts, or fan?

 

i have no clue where it was stuck...it was some moving part that shot it out i guess...just glad it came out...and good call on tightening the bolts...i'll do that tonight for sure

 

There is always something that goes wrong when puting a part on your car that makes it a headache, it never fails.

 

At least it did'nt fall in the plenumn.

 

When I did this install I broke one of the lower plenum gasket bolts I think it was and it took me forever to find a new one

 

+1

 

lol...yeah really...that would not be good

 

Whats up djnc? Last time I talked to you was like half a year ago on cardomain.

That story is precisely why I always take my car to the pros. My front strut has washers under it to clear the plenum spacer and when I had it dynoed the technician removed the strut bar and dropped one of the washers. Needless to say I was a tad nervous, but he recovered without much trouble.

 

hey man, good to see you on my350z...i haven't been on cardomain in a long time... this was really annoying, but i'm still not going to pay someone to do something i can do myself...i like doing the work myself...makes me feel like i know something

 

That's why my motto is "everything is a freaking project"

 

Gremlins at work