Intake help

[Sgabriaon]

I bought a 1999 green EB for my wife and the guy I bought it from said that the intake needed replaced, he had a replacement intake and whole parts truck, but it is a 2000 model EB. The 2000 has a plastic intake instead of aluminum like the 99, and has slight differences in vacuum line hookups and coolant hookups. Has anyone willingly swapped their aluminum intake for a plastic intake? If so, HELP please.

 

[Sgabriaon]

Here is the plastic replacement and aluminum original, I have noticed that the plastic one is missing two vacuum line hookups and has a different location for the coolant line coming out of the top.

 

[Oldblue]

I'm probably wrong but the plastic one might be from a engine with pi heads and your original one has non-Pi heads. I'm sure they use different intakes

 

[Sgabriaon]

These are the heads on the green one, give me a few to get to the red one. Green 99 has plastic valve covers, don't know if that makes a difference.

 

[Sgabriaon]

They appear to be the same front to back, with the same plastic valve covers.

 

[Sgabriaon]

Slight difference in gasket shapes but they line up perfectly.

 

[Sgabriaon]

The solid gasket (black and blue) is off the 99 intake and the red and blue o-ring style gaskets are in the bottom of the intake off the 2000 model.