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Im doing the PI complete engine swap (literally right now, i have grease allover my hands haha) and Im lookin at my new motor....the intake manifold is the completely plastic model without the metal crossover pipe. On my non PI motor (the one in the car) I replaced the cracked manifold with one from the dealer which had the metal crossover tube a few years back. Should I use my old manifold that has the metal crossover tube, or is it not PI,....how can I tell???....I dont want to lose any power
 

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Get A PI Intake if doing full swap. Worth every dime!
 

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i believe the 99-00 stanmgs had PI instak man.'s but still were complelty plastic. Put on the PI manifold then buy and wait for used metal crossover one to come and put that on.
 
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so the replacement I bought from the dealer in 03 was not a PI piece? it does have a metal crosover...
 
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i kinda figured that it would have been PI because i purchased it in 03...anyone know?
 
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They are both PI intakes. The metal xover version is just the updated model of the two.
 
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thanks sanman! i just wanted to make sure that the replacement i bought for my 98 back in 03 was a PI. It wouldnt have made sense for them to keep producing non PI intakes all the way through 03. Thanks for the info!
 

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There are NPI replacement intakes with the aluminum crossover that are still NPI not PI.
 
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so how do i figure out what it is?
 

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I beleive these is a gasket difference.

Most likely you have the NPI version.

Just use the plastic PI version, keep the aluminum NPI intake and sell it, then pick up an aluminum crossover PI intake later on
 
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