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 don’t know what you were doing on your engine or how you couldn’t do it. You must have triple size Gorilla hands or something.

I have never, NEVER EVER needed to pull, move, remove the cap, twist, curse or dance to swap an intake with the distributor right where it is supposed to be.

Stock distributor, MSD, the crazy big fat GM looking unit. Good freaking GOD people!

You do not even have to touch the freakin distributor to swap an intake!