Tonight, I plan on cleaning / porting my Upper plenum, and at very least clening the TPI base.

Any suggestions to me, before I do this. I have researched a little, and I plan on removing EGR walls, and the "walls" that run up and down between runner ports to smooth the air flow.

Anything to free up base? I plan on running stock runners, so I doubt there is anything I can do.

I will degrease throughly, port, clean again. Then paint both upper plenum and base a Dark Charcole Colour, and apply a hi-heat clear coat.

The runners will be polished to a bright shine.

I will also paint my valve covers the dark gray aswell.

I think it will all look nice when completed :

RED block
DARK CHARCOLE plenum and intake manifold
POLISHED runners
BLACK headers
STAINLESS intake tubing for my CAI.

It will be nice looking engine bay when I'm finished.

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Back on track, Ill be posting my progress pictures in here of my Plenum Process.

Use a gasket to match up the ports.

What exactly do you mean, I do plan on buying new TPI gaskets, but I have heard the term "gasket matching" but If I am not really opening up the phsyical opening of runners or base/upper plenum, so I think stock TPI gaskets would be ok? Do you mean use the gasket as a templet to open both ports to the size of the gasket hole?

Sometimes the castings do not quite match up to the openings of the gaskets. If you put the gaskets where they belong and use machinist blue or a sharpie to mark the edge of the gaskets on the upper and lower intake and carefully remove the metal to open the ports to match the gasket. You do this on both sides and remove a little more restriction and allow better flow. You can also do this on your heads to your exhaust manifolds and to the intake.

Matt