do i have to take my lowe intake off to get my new feiro covers on

 

That is not a stupid question and yes you do. I did with mine...

 

Uhh... No...

You have to remove the rocker covers to remove the lower intake.

 

I think there is some clarification needed: There are THREE parts to the intake, the upper, middle and lower. Some confuse the middle with the lower... anyway, to get the valve covers off and on, you need to take off the Upper AND Middle, because they overhang the valve covers. The lower can stay put...

 

i was successful at getting my valve cover on by removing the upper and not the middle just last weekend but it took a lot of work to do it with out screwing them up and i did scratch the crap out of them. it can be done but i don't recommend doing it.

 

It is only 8 bolts I think. You will need some Permatex gasket in a tube or something like it to fill the gaps where the valve cover gaskets don't quite fill the gasp where the plenum and heads meet by the way, but other than that is is so much easier to remove the middle plenum, rather than wrestle with getting around it- plus, if you polished the valve covers like I did, you don't want to scratch them!