[dhutton]

Originally Posted by LStathas

The price of the manifold shouldn't be any more than any other aftermarket intake. The price should be dictated by the cost of manufacturing and tooling just like any other intake, or any product for that matter. But the price of tooling is a fixed number and not more than making the tooling for any other intake. The price of an NOS or original unit is not a good argument nor is the quality of the casting. It is greed driven and just another example of our screwed up profit driven mentality these days.

Volume manufactured is a huge driver of cost. The more you build of something the lower the cost. I can’t imagine they are making very many of these manifolds compared to a more widely used SBC manifold for example....

Don