Thanks fellas. Yes, I have planarity issues to resolve first. Individually, the intakes appear fine and so do the exhausts...but, as an assembly, all the exhaust ports seem to have pulled back from the intakes (away from the head), so I'm hoping that once I break the heat-riser connection, there will be enough play in the stud holes to simply pull the exhaust back in to get them all planar. Otherwise, it's off to the Bridgeport.

I'm going to get that 8590 part number and hopefully it's a perfect match with my ports ;o)