Transplant time

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The original German 040 castings are of a much higher quality than the Brazil 044.
More fins, with much greater detail, and supposedly bettter metallurgy.

Those intake manifolds will work with a factory doghouse shroud.
There are many reasons to hate Chinese tins.
The biggest is the lack of cooling to your motor.
I'll spare you the others...

Going to check CR and the valvetrain geometry,
Or just run it?

A torque cam and the resulting short-shifting can make a motor last a lot longer in a daily...