The Intake Manifold has been a crazy journey.
First, I intended to flip the manifold and have the throttle body mount modified to clear the hood, as was done in one of the prototypes. I sent the stock manifold off to Minitec, and they modifying it and shipped it back to me.
It was a few months before I actually tried the hood on the car, and found that even with the modification, it was not even close to clearing the hood.
Another person was also experiencing the same issue. It was discussed at length, and many pictures and measurements were taken. We could never figure out why it worked on Minitecs prototype car and not others. The idea was eventually scrapped, and I shipped it back to them again. The TB neck was removed, a plate was welded in its place, and a fancy new aluminum piece was shipped to me to replace the driver's side plenum.
The inside of the ports were even ported to match the mini horns of the stock piece that was removed.
Once on, it looked great.
It seemed to fit perfectly, but I found out otherwise once I went to install wiring on the car. While it clears the COP coils without the harness installed, it did not clear the bulky plugs. What to do?
A torch, the end of a broom handle, a mallet, and 5 minutes later, and we were good to go.