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Message: <blockquote data-quote="g36 monkey" data-source="post: 1370689" data-attributes="member: 10997">Yea, swapping a rear would be a pretty big undertaking for someone not familiar.On these cars, the intake is already pretty good, so a cold air intake does basically nothing.  In some cases, they actually hurt performance because they are made of a metal that ends up getting very hot, and bringing hotter air into the motor.I know the split port swap scared you, but break it down like this:You are unbolting your intakes, unbolting your heads.  I think in total there are like 30 bolts, that all look pretty much the same.  You are cleaning the surfaces off, then slapping on a different set of heads and intakes while putting on new gaskets.This would be a good time for a coolant and oil change.I would not say do the cam, because that's a bit more of an undertaking, but heads and intakes is literally undoing bolts and putting them back in, just in a particular order.Otherwise, do what Orange said, pull parts off, and put them back on cleaned up and painted.  Make it look good.</blockquote>