By all accounts I'm what the kids would call a "newb" at the forum posting thing although ive scrolled through them for years. But i enjoy learning so any advice in help find answer is always appreciated.

Agreed on the seek and maybe find idea, I found myself belly over the fan and belt on my seek with arms tucked down the firewall before i was searching for balance and elbowed the harness out of my way accidentally before i found the valve lol.

After the completion of my intake manifold gasket replacement ( which lead to a porting and polishing the lower, Upgrade to the MpFI spider along with upgrades to ignition and EGR delete) i went ahead and cut the mess of congestion down by re-routing a few things and cutting the non essential parts of those pesky brackets out of the equation.