Yeah I hear ya but the issue is to fit the hood I needed to remove the carb spacer and subsequently lost my pcv vacuum port. I don’t want to drill out the race manifold for that. Seems like I can pop in a more appropriate manifold and have one that supplies my pcv and works better for the road. It might even be 1/2 shorter which I’ll take as well.
But point taken and thats my plan I have a ton of work to do in assembly beyond a simple manifold swap right now.