March 10, 2013, 09:17:17 AM
I installed the blower (not to be removed again until at lest after the first fire up) using custom aluminum studs ( I have a 4 inch spacer between the intake and the blower)made by Roo Man (replaced the steel tread rods used for mock up).
As I must make it look pretty as well as having if functional, each stud was measured once fully threaded (the reason each one had to be measured is the blind holes in the intake were all different lengths) into the BDS intake manifold, cut to get the stud to fully thread into the acorn nut, without the gasket.
Each stud was then numbered, they were all removed, the gaskets installed, and nuts torqued to 12 pounds
One more task completed. It looks like the fuel system will be on its way home from FIE the end of next week.