In the past, Lash talked to Dorman and they mentioned putting more and more stuff in their upper intake kits.

Toasty needed one in a rush this weekend and we got the Dorman.

Came with
Intake manifold
Plastic tube to hook booster to manifold
Map sensor cover
PCV
O-rings for pcv
2 aluminum or stainless reduced diamter stovepipes (will fit 95-05)
All 12 injector o-rings
Basically everything you could need except for the upper to be sleeved as well.

I wonder how many of their 'old' kits are still in stock on shelves? Might pay to open the package at the parts store to verify if anyone goes to get one instead of the APN kit.

How'* the price compared to APN?

The Dorman retails for $150

I thought I heard the APN is mail order only?

The Dorman is usually a stocked item, where the parts places can get it that day. In a pinch it'* a good plan.

In this case.. this is the Parts America/Advance/Checker/etc group. Since I'm seeing new stock, I'd assume the old stock is nearly gone in most cases.

That is good news. Glad to hear they are supplying a pipe for the 95-98 - at last!
Bill, can you or Toasty post a pic of the 95-98 pipe beside a dime for scale? And can you measure the OD to see if it is .510? Now everyone gets a reduced diameter pipe when they replace their upper with an after market kit. All we need now is a perfectly sized thin-wall sleeve that we can drive into a new Dorman, and we will have the UIM problem licked. I'll have to look into this.

Actually, we already have a pretty good off-the-shelf material for sleeving a new Dorman upper. It is the thin-wall 321 stainless steel tubing from McMaster Carr (Part No. 6622K121) for about $25/ft delivered. Its outside diameter is .750" and the inside diameter is .710" So, with the reduced diameter pipe at .510 (?) an insulating gap of 0.100" would remain between the hot pipe and the heat shield. The outside diameter of the tubing is a little smaller than the EGR bore in the UIM, so it would need to be installed with high temperature copper RTV silicone to hold it in place. The silicone has a higher temperature rating than field tested JB weld, but would set up more quickly allowing for installation within say, an hour of installing the shield. If the shield were installed as the first step in changing out the UIM/LIM gaskets, it would be sufficiently set up by the time it was needed to be installed.

The best part of this solution is the price. A piece .820" in length can be provided for about $5. That is cheap enough for any L36 owner to buy a piece for the glovebox in anticipation of the day when the UIM will be changed out.

It would be better if we could find thin-wall tubing that would drive right into the bore, but the only products I have found thus far are incredibly expensive, like 10x the cost of the stock material from McMaster Carr.