some advice on cleanin up this intake. . .

Send it to me, ill do some stuff with it

Trust me though, buy a bottle of Simple Green, best stuff EVER made, completleydrench it in it, then scrub it with a sponge or something, and then hose it off, then use a metal polisher. And take off the IAC and throttle body, and if you want to make them look VERY nice, get some high grit sand paper, and just sand it down, itll make it SHINE, then just polish it to clean it up, and first spray the inside with carb cleaner to get all the carbon out.