Intake Spacer Question

[zachow3]

Well i pulled off my upper intake manifold and removed all the cats on my exhaust(Im replacing them all) and now that my body has somewhat healed from spending 2 days underneath the truck I will be installing my Torque monster headers and cats. Once I have that done I will be installing a Trick Flow 1" spacer between the upper and lower intake manifolds. My question is about the mounting bolts with the spacer. From my forum searches I have read that I would need 2 longer bolts. One person said 5/16-18 5.5 and another said longer, like 7". From placing the 2 long bolts that came with the kit in the intake manifold and adding the additional 1" to that it looks like there would be very little thread engagement and their I think about 6". So what length is ideal? I havent found anything locally longer than 6". Want to get this truck up and running ASAP. I hope a few bolts wont stop me from that. Thanks, Brett

 

[jimbo74]

find a specialy fastener shop. they arent hardware stores... you can find them in the phone book, locally, i use a place called bhj fasteners, nationally you might try fastenal

 

[MountaineerGreen]

I believe the bolts are 7" or 7.5", just match the two that you have now. Try fastenall or other specialty bolt supplier, they should have or can get what you want.