Ravetek: excellent work. I take my hat off to you. I understand totally about what you mean when you said "I learned my lesson." I'm trying very hard not to let this new hobby become an obsession. I'm just the type of person who, if you handed me a pair of tweezers and said, "You see that mountain over there? I bet you can't move it 100 feet in any direction using these," I'd be hell-bent on doing it just to prove them wrong. (I know I'm crazy, the voices in my head won't stop reminding me.) I DO plan on having this intake chromed. But I don't want to just give up halfway through the battle and take it to the chrome shop and ask them to finish the job for me. The air bubbles are just a minor annoyance at this point. I'll eventually get it looking as good as the TPI intake, (I need to take some pics of that thing and put them up on here), but I want the satisfaction of knowing that once I get this motor put together that I can honestly say I had a hand in ALL the stages of building it. If you beat somebody in a drag race, or win a 1st place trophy at a car show, there's usually only two ways you could have done it: you either wrote somebody a big fat check and said, "Build it for me," or you buckled down and wrenched out all the blood, sweat, and tears it takes to have that 1st place car. Even if the guy who's got all the dough to have the best car out there beats me, there's still one thing I've got that he'll never have: respect.
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