OK, I was able to do the install tonight and even sneak in a test drive as its 50 degrees here today. Thanks to all of the "pioneers" here who shared their experiences and helped my install go smoothly. No codes, no issues as of yet. I'll check the bolts again in the morning to see if they require tightening again.

The limiters seemed to work well. One tweak I will probably do for the next run is increase the bolt hole size even further to allow for slop in the manifold, some of the bolts were harder than others to align on the initial fit. Looking straight down the hole it was clear that they were off center due to the inconsistency in the manifold. This said, I was still able to do the install. This change would just make the install go quicker IMO.

One thing that may go without saying is that after I torqued down all of the bolts in the recommended pattern I went back again to confirm all were torqued and many required ~1/4 turn more. I'm not sure if anyone else did this, if not, this may account for some of the bolts being out of spec after a heat cycle.

Some photos attached (forgive the rough catch can plumbing). Man that old intake feels HEAVY, on my scale this mod saves roughly 11.4 lbs.

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