Pop the hood

Disconnect the Battery.

We'll be messing with the injector computer and messing around near various electrical components. To keep yourself from accidentally shorting something or worse yet, shocking or burning yourself - disconnect the battery.

Remove strut bar.

This isn't really necessary, but it's easy to remove and it'll make your life a littler easier.

They use 4 x 12mm nuts per bar, 2 on each end. If you have an aftermarket bar, I'd definitely remove that now so you don't have to work around it.

Remove driver's side hose bracket.

This bracket holds some hoses tight that'll get in your way a little. We need every millimeter, so 1 10mm bolt will remove the bracket. Just unclip the hoses from it and place it aside.

Remove metal fuel injector cover.

The cover is held on with 2 x 10mm bolts located at the front and back of the cover.

Remove bolt holding the ignition coil on.

Each coil has a single 10mm bolt holding it in place.

Remove ignition coil.

First disconnect the ignition coil connector. Just squeeze the clip and slide it off.

The coil just snaps onto the spark plug. You'll be able to wiggle and pull it out, horizontally out of the cylinder head. Note that the coil is longer then there is space, you'll need to flex the rubber shaft to be able to get them out.

Remove Spark Plug.

Space is so limited, you'll have to do some tool juggling here.

First, slide the 14mm deep socket into the spark plug hole, centering it over the spark plug. Now, carefully slide the 3" extension in behind the socket and gently snap it into the socket. I say gently because you'll want to avoid damaging fragile ceramic of the spark plug.

At this point, the plug was still too deep to use my ratchet, so I added the 1.5" extension too.

Now rotate and align the tool till the socket engages the spark plug.

Now insert your ratchet and remove the spark plug (lefty-loosey).

Again, due to the limited space, you'll need to remove the 1.5" extension before the spark plug is all the way out. Using just the 3" extension.

Once it's fully unthreaded, remove your tools and fish the spark plug out by hand.

Remove strut bar.

Again, there's 4 x 12mm nuts holding the strut bar on. It's only slightly in the way, but it's easy and there's some space to be gained by removing them.

Remove injector ecu.

The Injector ECU is in the way on the passenger side. It's just *2 x 10mm bolts. Remove the bolts and move the ecu out of the way.

The wires are long enough, you should be able to rotate it back toward the firewall and get it out of the way.

Remove injector cover.

The injector cover on this side is just about the same, there's *2 x 10mm bolts holding it on.

Remove bolt holding the ignition coil on.

Each coil has a single 10mm bolt holding it in place.

Remove ignition coil.

First disconnect the ignition coil connector. Just squeeze the clip and slide it off.

The coil just snaps onto the spark plug. You'll be able to wiggle and pull it out, horizontally out of the cylinder head. Note that the coil is longer then there is space, you'll need to flex the rubber shaft to be able to get them out.

Remove Spark Plug.

Space is so limited, you'll have to do some tool juggling here.

First, slide the 14mm deep socket into the spark plug hole, centering it over the spark plug. Now, carefully slide the 3" extension in behind the socket and gently snap it into the socket. I say gently because you'll want to avoid damaging fragile ceramic of the spark plug.

At this point, the plug was still too deep to use my ratchet, so I added the 1.5" extension too.

Now rotate and align the tool till the socket engages the spark plug.

Now insert your ratchet and remove the spark plug (lefty-loosey).

Again, due to the limited space, you'll need to remove the 1.5" extension before the spark plug is all the way out. Using just the 3" extension.

Once it's fully unthreaded, remove your tools and fish the spark plug out by hand.

Install new spark plugs.

You'll need about 1 ft the vacuum hose. Slide one end of the hose over the terminal of a new spark plug and insert it into the cylinder head. The hose will give you the reach and control to install the new spark plug without cross-threading the plug.

You should be able to spin the plug a few times before it tightens up too much to use the hose. If it tightens up right away, remove and try again.

Now use your 14mm deep socket and extensions to tighten the plugs all the way. The torque rating is 12.5 ft/lbs. You won't be able to use a torque wrench, so make sure you don't over do it.

Install ignition coil.

Install the coil by flexing the shaft and sliding it in over the spark plug. It'll snap in lightly when fully seated. (You may want to test how this feels with a spare spark plug).

Re-connect the wire harness connector.

Install the 10 mm ignition coil bolt. Don't over-tighten, they're only 6 ft./lbs.

Install injector covers. There are 2 x 10mm bolts per side.

Install injector computer (passenger side).

Rotate the injector computer back in place and install the 10mm bolts.

Install hose bracket on the (driver's side, 1 x 10mm) and snap the hoses back into it.

Install strut braces. 4 x 12mm ea. 12 ft./lbs.