Mini Update for my brotha from anotha motha
Drove up to Matts place last nite and I we solved the coldside pipe prob..
(crappy phone pic)

(Silver pipe with white hand will be the coldside and blue pipe is the CAI)
I showed Matt a couple of 2.5 hump couplings that I had from the 2.0 turbo setup and we went to town on your AEM Intake pipe.. Matt chopped it up and we plan to use it for the coldside with your big 90 coupling, another hump hose coupling (if I can find it) and my old HKS Adapter Pipe that's coming off neon motor tonite..
I almost cried when I seen the 2" J bend you guys bought for the coldside.. I was like "NO... get it out of my sigtht"

.. It'll be better with a 2.5 pipe than a 2 incher..
We also (mostly Matt aka tard boy) figured and planned on how the boost/vacuum lines will be ran.. I'm gonna go pick some COPPER/BRONZE tees up tomorrow from Ace Hardware or Home Depot to get everything set
I'll try to drop the stuff off with tard boy sometime this weekend so we can here this biotch run..
And we also need to chop down the CAI and make it into a SRI (Short Ram Intake) cuz it's gonna be reeeeaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyy tight..
End of Update...
