I am doing the tbss intake manifold and throttle body swap on my 04 silverado.
Is the $200 x link my only choice? Is there any way around it? I've been reading everything I can find, and it appears that may be the case. But I figured I'd double check before spending money that may not be needed.

 

It's the only choice unless someone else knows of anything else...

 

Is it possible to swap over the assembly/connector from my factory TB onto the tbss TB and retain the factory connector?

 

Lots of us have been down this road before. I think you can swap the pedal TAC module, and wiring from a Camaro to make it work. You can convert to a cable driven throttle body, but that will require more parts, and changing the tune. When it is all said and done I still believe the X link is the easiest and cheapest way around it. The person that makes them is on this site quite often, and very helpful. I have never seen him not chime in on problem that might have to do with an X link. And after all that, I really don't remember any actual problems with an X link.

 

just get the xlink, makes it a super easy swap and like mentioned, if a problem occurs he is more then willing to help out.
I am local to him and he went above and beyond to help with little problems I was having