Originally posted by Cobra_Jack:
Originally posted by Hightower GT:
To me, it looks like whoever owned it spray painted the intake manifold silver for whatever reason.
It's stripped.. there's no paint on it
That was my post, but ok! 
Still looks too smooth to be a non-SVT intake...
The SE intake is rough because it was cast or whatnot and left. The SVT intake was smoothed out and powercoated black.
Appears to me then, if not painted, that the powdercoat was stripped off.
Also note that my early 98 SVT valve covers are black.
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