Me and my dad installed the grounding kit last night and we were working on the injen CAI this morning. Got to the step where you have to take out the stock bolts in the heat shield. Got the rear bolt off but the front one will not come off! It appears to be stripped now and we have tried just about everything. Did anyone else have problems with this? Any ideas on what to do? This really sucks because I can't put the intake on due to ONE bolt! We are debating now to take it to the local dealer but i dont want to waste money for their labor. Hope someone has some helpful input. Thanks guys/girls


Chip

 

i dont know how much room you have to reach it but they have kits at sears or other hardware stores to pull out stripped bolts.

 

Well, i went ahead and took it to a dealer here at school and they got the bolt out for 70 bucks. Where is a good place to get a bolt to replace it? The people at this dealership weren't the most helpful. The funniest thing was that noone there had any idea what my grounding kit was. Glad its done with though

 

I had the same problem, so I never put on my injen heat sheild. When I installed my Nismo headers I had to get them off. I went to a local auto parts store and bought someting called "PB Blaster". This stuff is designed for rusted bolts. You spray it on, wait about 10 mins and the bolts come right off. I have also had to use this stuff to get my stock exhaust off.