| but I really doubt the stock will work. My CF one is already cracked in its clearcoat, so I might play around with it to see what works. The carbing style strut bars should work, but again ill only know once I put the engine in. What you should be taking out of my experiment is the fact that I fit -8AN lines under the plenum. To date I believe people have only been using -6. The fittings on the front are XRPs forged style 45 degree -8, which allow for a tighter bend. This, coupled with the HS79 tight bend radius, helped bring this to fruition. The throttle linkage bracket requires trimming on the driver side, but I wound up cutting the bracket a half inch from the bottom for a stock appearance (not pictured). The ORB fittings are the ones Brett provides with the kit. They look out of place (silver in a sea of black) but the only reason they are there is because of their ID...Brett has 1/2" ID through the system with a -6 OD off the rails. I didn't want to create a bottleneck by using a regular ORB -6 to -8, so I retained his fittings. I'll probably Sharpie them like I did with the plenum and TB gaskets :) A 60 degree -8AN pushlok fitting on the balance tube fits the stock air regulator hose (with some clocking from both). There is very little room to fit the injector pigtails...it is possible to DC with the rails in place, but honestly removing the rails makes life much simpler. At this point I could give a rats ass about running the throttle cables naked...I'm just happy this all worked.
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