[Formulajones]

Yeah pretty much.

Ive run just about everything here without a heat cross over, even when I lived in ohio as daily drivers and never had any drivability issues. No icing if the carb or anything like that.

The bird is the first and only car that I've run a separated heat cross over, because it's factory designed that way if you run the OEM aluminum intake setup. With the cross over and it's heat shields it still does a pretty good job of isolating heat from the intake. A noticable difference just by touch compared to the iron setup that has heat blowing right through it. I've also noticed an improvement in the summer here in Arizona with hot starts and today's crappy pump gas. It's much better than the iron piece with a functional heat cross over. Plus aluminum does a better job dissipating heat anyway.