Ok,....stupid test 101.
I did what I said I was gonna do. I removed the valve cover, and backed off the intake valves. I made a 2.5" round plug out of a 2x4 and put a fitting in it. I pressurized the charge tube.....
Air went in, and air came back out. The gauge never moved a fraction of an inch. Part of the problem is that I'm using a blow by tester set that has a . 040" hole in it to restrict air flow...so I'm thinking that I'm gonna have to adapt a few things so I'll move a greater volume of air into the plenum..
I have no clue where the air is escaping,...I get a small spray bottle, fill it with soapy water,..spray the box, spray the bases of the ITBs that I can get to...
No bubbles.
I feel around to see if I could actually feel air movement around the throttle bodies...I can. In the center of the whole menagerie you can feel air...as slow as this whole experiment is going,..and I'm feeling air.
( you're not supposed to feel air)
So,.....knowing if I was to revise the air supply source to supply a larger volume of air, I'd feel it even more profusely I decided to pull the box off and seal it with some black goop. The black goop being some right stuff that I had a tube of, that I had to dig and poke, and dig and poke until I got all of the dried up goop out of the end of the tube.
But I manage.
I apply beads around the inside of each of the sleeves that slide over the throttle bodies and smoosh the thing on top and it blobs out around the tops of each throttle body.
Which forces me to remove the glass top so that I can clean that mess up.
So........I'm gonna let it dry. I'm gonna clean up and reseal the glass top. Then I'm gonna adapt the pressure regulator so that there'll be a much larger hole blowing air into the induction system again...and the thing better build up pressure..
Or it'll swap places with the black intake that's hanging on a hook.