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Summary: Install a manifold in a car when replacing a car engine; learn how with tips from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.
Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more
"Hi I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to install the right side exhaust manifold. He took, all the little red plugs you see there those are plugs put in from the factory to keep the exhaust ports from getting junk in them. So he's going to try to fit it in there, see if he can get it around the spark plugs, if everything fits in nicely it'll be a quick, fast, easy installation. With the Ford engine in the car, I can't remember this year in particular, but some model T-Birds some years T-Birds and big block Mustangs, you can't the exhaust manifolds on and off with the engine in the car you have to raise the engine to do it. But it looks like this is going to lay right in there real nice. It has some pollution control equipment originally, so we've blocked off those passages. He's got the gaskets in there and ready to go."
eHow Article: How to Install the Correct Manifold