I have a lot of upgrades to do and a lot of my friends that also own evos say to leave the bracket to the intake manifold off due to it being so difficult to get to. Is this a bad idea? Im sure it gives the manifold support but is it necessary? For better measure, I'm running a FP Black with supporting mods. This means higher boost pressure and harsher conditions. Thanks guys

 

I have not heard of any issues relating to a removed bracket. I personally left mine off when I replaced my IM with a Rev3.

I believe if you torque to spec and use a dab of blue Loctite there will be no issues.

 

Took mine off when the new motor went in. I never ran one on my dsms in the past either, never had any issues.

 

Thanks guys, this is sounding good.

 

Im in the process of rebuilding my engine and I was wondering the same thing. It wasn't fun taking it out, thanks for posting

 

left mine off after pulling the mani for egr delete , been running it that way for over a year. makes it a lot nicer to be able to reach down their withought a bracket in the way. Plus most aftermarket intake manifolds dont come with supports.

 

Especially the Knock Sensor.

 

They add a lot of precaution from the factory to cover their own a$$ if something was ever to go wrong. However, those precaution's are usually over engineered and provide VERY minimal improvements to justify keeping.

 

I never had one on my car...no issue.

 

most likely the brkt is there to stiffen the joint to prevent torque loss on the manifold by reducing the vibrations etc....

 

Removed it when I installed my magnus manifold, wont work with it. Highly doubt its of great importance... best advice is remove for scrap metal or paper wait

 

This +1. The bracket is not necessary.