Not much for an update. Sometime last year I put on a Radium Fuel rail to replace the OBX rail. This winter I was browsing facebook and saw an Xcessive intake manifold to replace the Godspeed intake manifold, and I jumped on it.
It looked a bit cleaner in the pictures, but after a little research, a brass wire brush and some WD-40 cleaned up the cast aluminum pretty well.
I ordered some of the cast velocity stacks from Xcessive as well. I'll never know if they provided any gains, as I have 0 comparison data (which is fine with me) but I figured they are a proven "Help" in almost every application, so why not. Everything went over to Travis and he welded them in. Now, before anybody asks. Yes, I'm aware Xcessive offers a molded velocity stack plate that sandwiches in between the plenum and the runners. I couldn't stand the fact the black line in between. It drove me nuts. It drives me nuts people use Red / Black RTV to seal these manifolds. CLEAR RTV EXISTS FOR A REASON.
Also, I fucking hate polishing.
The weather has been super nice here sporadically, so I already have about 600 miles on the car this year. Which is rad, because usually we're lucky to be street driving in the middle of April.