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I ended up just sanding and painting mine, no realy 'fab' work needed, except pretty much everything that goes on the manifold needs to be modified. The coolant lines to the Throttle body and IAC all need to be changed to londer lines, or bypassed all together (Personaly I just bypassed the TB but made longer lines for the IAC). Then there is a fuel rail, its pretty straight forward, but your gunna need some extra fuel hose. I put my grounds on the bracket they sent with the manifold (its a support for the alternator bracket) the Vacuum fittings gave me the most problems. The Brake booster fitting was way to close to all the Brake hardlines as they come down the fire wall, I ended up having to bend them slightly out of the way to get the fitting into the manifold, then getting the hose onto it was a PITA. Im not sure if I did this part right but, That little hose on the top of the valve cover, I ran to the back of the manifold, since its conection point is removed with the stock mani. Lastly was the Throttle cable, thisone took me some time, but I ended up using the stock SR one and modifying it, by flattening it out completely, then bending the tab up at the appropriate place. I also mounted it with only one bolt (!?) so that it would fit properly.
Issues: Only thing I can say so far that has me questioning a good purchase or not has to be the fact that my Vac. went up from 19 to about 15. I thinkthe more air flow might have made the computer pull timing a little or something. Anyone have insight on this?
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