Man Pras I am sorry to hear you had so much trouble, once again another unhappy customer or messed up parts from vms..... man I wonder how many screw ups it will take before they go under.
Its really easy to make up a straight runner intake manifold. I am still in the process of making mine. Just take a 960 intake runner and cut off the extra intake port and then weld on your seperate runner tubes that join to the main runner. Really easy and straight foward. Will bolt up directly with no problems also.