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Originally Posted by ponyakr
I'll take a stab at that.
(1) Because I haven't won one of the $100,000,000 + lottery jackpots, yet. That's not meant as a joke.
(2) No super rich guy has wanted to do it.
(3) Guys with the knowhow & want-to, don't have enuff money to do it.
(4) Guys with the knowhow to do it, who could borrow the money, don't figure they could make a profit on 'em, and assume they would probably LOSE lots of money, or it would at least take many years to break even.
There may be other reasons. Only thing i remember, for sure, about previous discussions of this is how many differing ideas there were about the details of such a block. Some guys kept upping the capabilities to the point where they'd have to sell for nearly the price of the current high dollar blocks.
And, I assume that makers of the current blocks would fight a cheaper block as hard as they could, so that they wouldn't lose any sales because of a cheaper block.
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Good input.... any thoughts on how many blocks might need to be sold before a profit is made?
I heard an up front number of 250K a couple of decades ago for the IA block to get the first batch done....using that number (and don't know how to convert that to today's dollar value).... 167 blocks would need to be sold to break even....how many guys would buy a block?
Before answering, keep in mind many here have complained about the cost of Edelbrock heads. Then the Speedmaster heads came out for two thirds the cost of the E'heads and a lot of folks questioned the quality. Then the Speedmaster heads were put on sale for approximately a third the cost of E's and still quite a few folks opted out and others just complained that they still weren't as cheap as an Oldsmobile head.
Also consider for more than a decade folks complained about the cost of an aftermarket block and claimed they wanted a budget friendly Sportsman block and those would sell like sliced bread. AP had a small batch of "soft" blocks (same hardness as an OEM block) and sold them at a Sportsman block price....and it took quite a while to sell them.
So how many $1500 blocks do you realistically think would be purchased?