More on Smallport Manifold Cut-n-Shut

Most of the pics below belong to my dear friend Dereck. He's done doing cut-n-shut on his 4A-GE smallport intake and you can see the result on the pics below. Smallport intake manifold faces the wrong side when the engine is put longitudinally in RWD. On Charmant (and many more example from other model, i am sure) the throttle body will hit the clutch master cylinder and unless you want to go Fred Flintstone on your car, you need that throttle body.

Here's the problem i mentioned.

Here's what cut-n-shut basically is, taken from my older post.

Here are shots of Dereck's finished manifold taken from his blog. First is the back side..

and here's the front side..


I sent Dereck's pics to my workshop mechanic thru MMS and immediately i got this reply pic.

Looks like they are almost finish with my manifold also! Only i see that they are doing it the slightly harder way. You can see that they kept the bolt threads on the back side just so that they can simply bolt in an aluminum plate to cover the old TB hole. That's easier than cutting and shutting the back side for sure. But as for the front side, it's a lot harder this way. You can see that they put an aluminum block there so that they can redrill the TB bolt threads. Ah well, that's how they prefer to do it.. It's not really my concern as long as it functions properly.

Dereck warned me that i need to make sure the cable gas bracket is also moved to the correct side. That's one thing to pay attention to on doing this work. Anything else you care to share with us, Dereck?

***update 18-Feb-10***