Come on Edelbrock. Get your act together.

What I would do is, Sell the intake to someone running 318 heads and look for a good used intake.

What is this world coming to?

The Vo-tech where my son knows the teacher in auto shop class had 4 students sign up for next year. At least 30 less. Tools are for sale.

But the cosmetology class needed more room for students. So they took a bay from the auto shop. Blue hair, Black nails, and piercings are the new dreams of the upcoming" Its and them's

My son cannot find any young people to hire and the ones that have started lasted no more then a day or two.

Short story,,
He gave a new hire a job to take the valves out of heads, Then he got on the phone to order parts. He looked over and saw the kid sitting on a chair on his phone. After he got off several minutes later he asked, Whats wrong that you are on your phone? (answer) You were on your phone so why can't I be on mine. Your FIRED!!!

You would not believe some of the kids that he had here. I could tell you worse stories,

Maybe they are making the intakes for Companies.


Your son is going to find it’s near impossible to find a machinist any more. Every shop I know could hire at least one guy and a couple of shops could hire 3 or 4. They just can’t find them.

Everyone says find a kid, hire and train him. That would be great IF you could find a kid that was interested enough to even think about it and then motivated enough to learn it.

And…most of these kids coming in with zero experience expect to be paid like they can run every piece of equipment in the shop, know every procedure and know when to use what valve job and stuff like that.

Go to a non automotive machine shop and most of those places could hire 5 or more machinists right now. IF they could find them.

The schools are putting out kids who can write a CNC program and put stock in the machine but if they have to walk up to a manual lathe or mill they don’t have a clue.

Its bad out there for skilled labor. I feel bad for your son. Hopefully he can find someone.