Dude, your experience and feedback on this board means a lot. I appreciate you sharing your experience so we all can get better. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by mgarblik
I too was a bit puzzled with the pro-port offerings. It was just too raw for anyone other than a shop with 5-axis capability and a really good cylinder head guy to work with it. As is often the case in our tiny hobby, we are talking about 8-12 people in the country who have the knowledge, capability and interest in a project like that. So there they sat on the shelf for years, unsold. Edelbrock has wonderful casting capability, in house HIP processing and talented engineers like Rick Roberts who does genuinely like Pontiac engines. But as others have said, they missed the market in numerous ways. The heads were 6-10 years too late. The heads were too rough as sold. Other smaller producers stepped-up like All Pontiac and KRE, DCI and others to fill the void. The cost of designing and building your own billet heads is not as totally out of reach as it was 10 years ago when few 5 axis machines were out there. Kinda like "new Coke", it really missed the mark.
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