Thanks guys for the comments. I rather like the term critique over criticisms because it sounds more friendly to me. My concerns over the intake was taken from an aviation point of view. The intake is just fine when evaluated from an automotive point of view.

Checked the setup after a run and everything is nice and tight so that eased my concerns about the coupling. I still want to grind the grill out for more clearance though.

I experienced only a little better throttle response but that may be because I feather the throttle in the interest of better gas mileage and ticket avoidance. Will have to check the difference when mashing the gas pedal. Should be fun. The car definitely pulls harder with the supercharger all wound up. I use to blast up a hill next to my home. Now I can BLAST up the same hill.

Now I'm just twiddling my thumbs waiting on some pulleys......