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To answer the questions .... Yes and Yes
Its finished I had it tig welded back together by Brian over at M&B cyl heads. He did a great job working with the thin aluminum that was left after I hogged the thing out.

You would think my gains would be all on top with that kinda porting but to my amazmant it made a more noticable impact in the 2000-4000 range. The truck just grunts a little better then before. The pics I posted above showing the difference between the ported side and the uncut side are exactly what I was able to do through the whole set of runners. The bends took me probably 4-5 hrs of cutting and polishing and the straight sections attached to the plenium took about half that. Everything matched up very well when welded back together. I pulled the freez plugs on the plenium and looked through each runner with a flashlight on the bolt side and a mirror in the plenium from the side.

I may get my TB ported in the near future if I can stand not driving it for a few days. I have a spare TB but its got the wrong throttle linkage on it. I also noticed AFTER I got the manifold welded and painted that I was going to have to modify a part to make the 88 manifold work on my 90 truck. The throttle cables attach in a slightly different alignment and the linkage bracket bolts on differently.

If some one wants to post a pic for e I will E mail it to them or heck just tell me where to go to get free pic hosting.