TWISTED- Yes, they are sticking up into the plenum. This is a EFI manifold that uses a air stack runner. A carb/wet manifold would use the standard style runner. The manifold is 1.5 times the motor displacement.

51 EL- The manifold will be all welded up. We tossed around the idea of a two piece manifold. We just made spare pieces (runners,flanges)if we need to build another one. All these componets are CNC machined. Got NOS--YOU BET \:D \:D \:D