While I'm doing this, since I figured out how to remove the EGR checks in the ECU (see above post), I am ditching the EGR valve, the charcoal canister, and the lines associated with them. Should clean up the engine bay a little bit:
ditching this bracket as well:
Goodbye POS that cut the hell out of my hand!!!
Finally, an action shot of this little project....I love my 4G63 so much that I like to hug my engine and sing to it....'hold me closer Tony Daaaaannnzaaaaaa!!!!'
I stopped smiling soon after this, as I began dropping sockets and bolts into the subframe as I began to install the new manifold. I then broke off one of the bolts in the head, what a fcking b*tch of a job. Oh well!