yyyeah... so I did a quick check over plugs and such, and then jumped into pulling off the intake manifold. It would seem that somewhere between freezing my ass off, and being excited about almost being finished, I failed to... check... if... ya know... there was any of the old intake manifold gasket.... uh... left on the block. but the manifold was ship shape! To be fair, I was only 1 of 3 sets of eyes working on this beast, so it wasn't ENTIRELY my fault. But yeah, I'm retarded, it runs like a champ, and I'm going to go cry myself to sleep because I'm retarded. yeah. half of the gasket on the block. I should be shot.