Help me plan: My first intake swap ... EVER.

To everyone that says you "do not" need to take the dist. out: I just found that the rear-left manifold bolt was impossible to get out with the dist. in the way. Maybe because it's an MSD dist.? Or because it's an Edelbrock manifold?
Your mileage may vary...
I've got this distributor wrench. Its 2 wrenches put together with a square drive coupling in middle. One end of It works fine torqueing a difficult to access intake bolt as well as a few others. "Impossible" varies with what tools you have.