Agreed. I've had more Edelbrock stuff delivered than I can remember and it always came in their nice boxes....
As to the OPs problem, sucks but that looks like most Edelbrock intakes I've ever gotten. Just my luck maybe?
I have to wonder though, is that mismatch because of the manifold or the gasket? How does that particular gasket match the heads?
When I've set their manifolds up to check flatness/matching with the heads they've almost always been off side-to-side and/or front-to-back, having gaps that varied depending on how you shifted the intake around at least in my experience.
They are the reason I've always preferred milling those intakes when most guys screamed at me that milling the heads was 'the right way'....no thanks.
Not about to permanently match a nice set of heads to a crappy intake....
This last build (RB) I went for the Trick Flow intake and it fit really well. Personally, I'm done with Edelbrock....oops did I go off on a side rant?:eek::D:D
