My intake manifold and throttle body finally arrived, here are some shots of the manifold from yesterday. The manifold is a Skunk2 Ultra Street.
This is what the fs gasket looks like overlayed on the manifold:
Notice how much bigger the B18 ports are? No wonder the feckers make so much hp n/a.
Shot showing what the spacing and bolt hole patterns are like:
Heres what it looks like mounted in the car:
And this is where it all kinda goes sideways rather quickly, notice how high the manifold sits in the bay? due to the massive angle on the intake ports the B18 manifold sits so high that the front fouls on the bonnet.
At first I thought that it'd be an easy fix, machine the flange flat as the flange has extra angle applied. But yeah no, that won't work either.
Shots from some other angles:
Managed to cycle camera battery a few times in the charger, so that now works, yay! The throttle body just arrived this morning so will take some happy snaps tonight maybe after i get home from helping cookie.