Made some progress today mostly just sand blasting and beginning painting for the intake manifolds and water pump housing:
I still have to put some more coats on, just some 5 dollar rattle can w/ ceramic so it may not hold heat out super well but worst case scenario it looks nice lol.
I'll post pics of the coolant stuff and the lower IM when I get pictures of them.
While sandblasting I found a 6" crack around the s5 LIM plenum but putting the s4 LIM up next to it, they look identical so now I gotta sandblast and paint my S4 LIM too.
I'm going to polish off the paint on the UIM portion with lettering and lines so its shiny aluminum looking.