thank you, i actually found in a chiltons 13 - 15 ft-lbs and the torque sequence a couple of days ago. anyways i'm back together and idling smoother and quieter than ever. acceleration is smoother and it doesn't seem to have the dead spot around 4k in the power band that it did before. all around it seems to be doing better, but i have a small crack in the exhaust manifold and the cat is starting to come apart so i might be getting a header pretty soon, we'll see.