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"Also..what about the EGR tube? Does it tolerate being moved 8mm upwards without too much trouble?"
I have streached the stainless steel tube several ways.
The trick is to keep the flat surfaces paralell.
On some I picked the intake manifold upward with an engine crane.
Easy to do, and easy to mess up!
I have also made an angle steel bracket where the bottom is lightly bolted into place, the angle steel is clamped in a big a$$ bench vice, I use a phillips screwdriver as a pry bar, and use carefully a blue tipped wrench to bring the tube up to red hot to allow an easy bend & streach, and using vice grips to ensure a paralell surface before things cool.