Last but not least this is what I was dealing with

The youtube video below shows the redneck mess they did to the intake boot in more detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FpYVA5HWw



After all of this it purrs like a kitten now. Super smooth and what I thought was normal intake air flow noise was actually one massive vacuum leak.

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