If you pull the valve covers, you might as well check the clearance. I'm assuming it's not often that you're pulling them so it would be a good opportunity to check while you're in there.

Painting the covers? Ehhhh subjective. I think yours look GREAT in my opinion but I also live on the east coast. If it were me, I'd save my time and money and allocate it elsewhere. But if you really wanna do it, I suppose now is the time.

Are you replacing the fuel injectors with rebuilt OEM ones? There's a place somewhere in Cali, can't think of the name right now but I saw it on here recently, that you can send your originals to and they'll clean them up and do whatever they do to restore them like new. I think it's called Motor West performance but double check on that.

Definitely good to replace all those vacuum lines/hoses, that'll save a load of headaches down the road.

Everything else seems to be good in my book, but that's one man's opinion.

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