I took care of the gap above the TB, where the EGR passage is exposed nicely. I made a spacer plate that mirrored the gasket out of some thin sheet steel. Works Great.
Then I began to work on the throttle cable issue. I hadn't yet read Demon's post, obviously, and did not immediately fip the linkage 180 deg. I tried to make it work with the cable assembly in its original confguration. You could imgine that the cable is nowhere near long enough to extend behind, then up and over the plastic seat assembly to sit in that position. So I began to cut down the plastic hoping that I could make it work. I eventually cut the plastic down enough to seat the cable and had a nice, tight cable, but when I tried it out....uh oh
I cut too much of the plastic seat assembly off, effectively cutting down the path of travel for the cable and taking away the necessary leverage to create WOT. Follow me? The TB would only open about half way and pulling further on the cable would do nothing more.
So.... I didn't get it on
and I probaby hacked it up too much to salvage, so back to the 60 for now. I may get another one and flip linkage this time if I can't come up with some way to make this one work. And since I was in a machining mood I 'optimized' the SVT TB while it was out.
This gives you an idea of what I was trying to do, this picture is what convinced me I could get it to work this way (this someone's 70mm install from coldair):
