CVF serpentine setup with magnum intake/t-stat location?

I'm with the above...

I dropped a 5.2 in my car and had the LA parts on hand, minus the intake. I bought the Hughes cam snout extender which came with its own issues in my experience.

If I'd had it to do all over again, I'd have pirated around the junk yard for about $100 worth of Magnum accessory parts. I'll probably do that in the not too distant future anyway, as I plan to rebuild the engine with some IMM heads and drop on one of the aftermarket self contained TBI systems.

The factory stuff isn't going to win any beauty contests, but the functionality and parts availability is hard to surpass IMHO.