New Kinetix Intake Manifold *large* Pics

Hi everybody. I don't hang out here as often as I should, but reading around.

Here is mine, installed!

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Now, it took me a little longer to install. I added the <a href='http://nipponpower.com/engine/manifold_gasket/nextgear_gasket.html]Nextgear Thermoshield[/url] gaskets so I had to remove (well, move aside) the fuel rails and the intake runners to place the lower two gaskets, put all that together, then the lower plenum gasket and the new manifold.

Note, I don't think we should refer to this as the "V5". The other plenum, the V4 plastic one is just a plenum upper cover, while this, the SSV IM is a full intake manifold.

I then had a leak that caused rough for a while, and then high idle. It was the throttle body to the manifold joint. So I removed the TB, used some RTV, and everything went fine.

Thinking that the high idle could also come from the ECU, I did an ECU reset. The next AM I went to see some guys at a local dyno and decided to dyno the car. I wasn't going to, but I was curious of the A/F since I added headers, HF cats and the IM. I didn't do well. Best run was 238.

What happened? I think it is the ECU. Since I had just reseted it 20 miles before, I think it totally negated everything. The A/F did come out quite high, almost reaching 16 and never getting below 13.

So then, for now I will wait a couple of weeks see what happens. I am reading up everything I can now on ECU, EMS, reflashing, etc. Any ideas, opinion and info on EMS/ECU/management for NA are extremely welcomed.