Yogi, please tell me Santa is bringing you a nice K&N air filter for Christmas.
It will look good when it's finished and you will really notice A/ the horsepower and B/ the great rasping sound.
I will be interested to know how it goes with the cleaned out manifolds as it will be one of my goals next year to fix my timing chain cover which means essentially taking the whole top of the motor off.
As I only have a stock LIM I will get that sent away to be matched/cleaned with UIM get the UIM painted up and will also get the covers done.
You can also get from the US coloured dress up kits which include a few of the hoses and matching spark plug leads which look pretty nice.
Meantime good luck with it.
How good are MSDS Headers???? (I love mine

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Owning a Cougar is like owning a Super Model
Good to own but "High Maintenance"
2000 Model Eibach Cougar (Auto) - Now dead & buried