I plan on running alot of boost so i made sure that it was covered... I would take pictures of what I did but the intake a tb are on the car currently...
I was told by my high performance teacher at auto tech that it needed to be welded. Maybe my gap was bigger than you guys' but I just used a regular felbro ka24 throttle body gasket and it did not cover up the hole.
Its really not that hard, I had a friend that knew how to aluminum weld, weld it up alittle for me and then I took a file and filed it flush...
Its just "insurance" for me I guess you could say, I like to do things very thorough...
And yes yes I did have another name change... the new forum software couldnt read my old screename...