What is this part?

[scotty101]

Tonight we stripped down my 350 to get cleaned for painting it and we came acrossed this part. I was wondering what it is and what does it do?
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another angle
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it mounts just to the left of the white tape towards the bottom of the picture. oh it is off a 350 fuel injected.
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