I did not swap anything from the old vb to the new one....I still have the old one and I will email Dave to see his thoughts...but in researching there are changes or differences in 97 to 00 and 01 to 02...I also have checkballs in the channel plate being a 97 for the cooler lines....I'll see what Dave says and go from there..at this point I feel like just throwing my old vb on to see how it runs...