Jake, they are holding up just fine. I have about 3,000 miles on it now and no problems that I can tell. I want to get a gauge on the hot side to measure back pressure and also get a gauge on the pre-intercooler side to measure pressure drop

 

Damn, that manifold is pretty tight to the head. Tighter then I thought it would be. I think I know what Spoolin is talking about. I remember seeing pictures on here of someone that made new, or reused the coil brackets and had them mounted just above the oil pan on each side.

 

That's where Mitch has his

 

I'd like to see this pic

 

When I was running stock flipped manifolds I had the coil packs down below the header, got the idea from farm truck. Never had any issues with them.

 

Not the best pic but you get the idea.. I'll let you know how they work out in the next few weeks. LOL

 

I think if I would wrap the header it would work a whole lot better.

 

I wrapped the manifold on mine and will be trying it with wires in the stock location. Will post up if they survive or not lol. Otherwise i may try the longer plug wire around the back of the manifold.

 

That will work for a little while but not for long. I had the lava heat wraps on my wires and they still burnt up real quick. I had my stock coil pack mount ziptied to the motor mount and just used stock wires and ran them up the the plugs. Got the harness extension from Nelson.

 

Well my plug wires burnt up!! I had 2 layers wrap on the manifolds and 3 on the wires! It'd work just fine if the wires weren't actually touching the manifolds but I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet on the high dollar custom MSD's!!