Honda J series V6 Manifold Gasket

The photo are from the RIDGELINEOWNERSCLUB forum in a thread call 2005 MDX Valve Adjustment, Malaysia may not have the Honda Ridgeline on the road, but the J series engine for this Honda V6 engine is able to find it in model such as Accord and Odyssey.

When the engine is started with J30A1 for 3.0 V6 variant, the design at the intake manifold area have been changing with any later model like J30A4, J35A5, J35A9 and may be J35Z series of engine, and the later model will come with design that having the plenum gasket, and the gasket is not cheap from Honda original part.