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Old 10-05-2009, 12:40 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by 1972LT1 View Post
What are you saying,Holley priced themselves out of buisness? It's either a $400 Holley or a $1200 fuel injection system.
Or a $100-150 used carb, and a (up to) $100 for a trick kit rebuild and some of your personal time and you have a (relatively) new carb for about $250. I just got into carbs and honestly it is soo much cheaper than FI but I think a hunk of metal that is cast zinc that the mold is what, 40 years old? the bowls and body should cost almost nothing to produce. Also the carbs without the choke horns cost MORE than ones with the horn, WTF is up with that?
I can see how some of the new aluminum carbs with the billet bodies, metering blocks and throttle plates could cost more but zinc is cheap and old technology.
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