I ended up doing this for multiple reasons.  Installation of XDI +30% fuel injectors, installation of the X35Designs phenolic spacer, installation of the BBK 70mm throttle body, some heat management of the coolant passage underneath the manifold and finally, installation of my new port injection methanol intake manifold.

It isn’t necessarily hard, just tedious and time consuming.  I won’t cover the injector install in this thread as that is covered in another post, just the basic removal, prep and install of the intake manifold.  I also performed the port matching of the phenolic spacer during this, but it is also covered in another post as well.

Here we go…getting her ready:

Removal of the hood made it easier to access everything and wasn’t hard at all.  It only weighs about 19lbs:

At this point, I completed the swap-over of the components off the stock throttle body onto the BBK one.  There’s a spring in there and some clocking that is necessary…