Cost of Edelbrock

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I considered one of the knockoffs, but from reading on here, Im better off to bite the bullet and pay.....
Here are the reasons and why.
Its a 5.9 going in a 87 dakota.
I have to use the serpentine belt system to clear the radiator. V-belt drive goes about 1/2 in or so into the radiator.
I want AC. Its my understanding that the knockoffs will not work with the serpentine system.

I hate paying double, but in the grand scheme of things its 200 more, and from what I have read, trying to use the serpentine and AC with the knockoffs just dont work.

If im wrong on any of this, please tell me.
Also, is $390.95 about the best deal?

Thanks for everyone's input.
 
93ragtop said:
I considered one of the knockoffs, but from reading on here, Im better off to bite the bullet and pay.....
Here are the reasons and why.
Its a 5.9 going in a 87 dakota.
I have to use the serpentine belt system to clear the radiator. V-belt drive goes about 1/2 in or so into the radiator.
I want AC. Its my understanding that the knockoffs will not work with the serpentine system.

I hate paying double, but in the grand scheme of things its 200 more, and from what I have read, trying to use the serpentine and AC with the knockoffs just dont work.

If im wrong on any of this, please tell me.
Also, is $390.95 about the best deal?

Thanks for everyone's input.
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Have Summit beat the price!
https://www.summitracing.com/search...carbureted&SortBy=Default&SortOrder=Ascending
 
93ragtop said:
So I have been searching and it seems Amazon has the 7577 for $390.95 with free shipping.

Is this about the best deal out there?

Man, Edelbrock sure is proud of these intakes!!
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I've used the 7577 on my 360 and my 416 it performed very well..putting one on the new bullit this winter!!
 
RustyRatRod said:
Edelbrock has outsourced for years, nobody wants to admit it, because they paid "good money for American parts". All a company has to do is have X percentage of stuff made here and they can claim it. You don't know what's made here and what's not. Hell, they can make the cute little "MADE IN USA" tags here and that's it. lol I've seen new Air Gaps that were cast just as BAD as a Crosswind. It's a total crapshoot now. I don't give a chit WHAT Edelbrock's site says. The fact is, companies do what makes them money. Period.
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I here you
I do make an effort to buy anything other than Chinese products.
After what they have done to the USA I will no longer support their products.
I like Trump he is the only one I have seen take on the yellow horde.
Opps did I say that.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Well of course not. I am saying "I don't know". I thought that was pretty clear. Do you KNOW for sure? I don't. I have Christy Edelbrock as a Facebook friend.......I guess I could ask her "hay girl, is yall's stuff still made here or is it total chinkesium now?" but that might not go over too well. Besides, she wouldn't tell me anyway. LOL
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RRR , I doubt u`d get a truthful answer on that !
 
Right on their website "Made in U.S.A"...if not then that's false advertising which is illegal..
 
rumblefish360 said:
IF! There was reason to hide one......
:poke:
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Right, I wholeheartedly agree, as I said "I don't know". They could dang well all still be made here. But that means the few TERRIBLE castings I've seen would be absolutely NO excuse for.
 
512Stroker said:
I here you
I do make an effort to buy anything other than Chinese products.
After what they have done to the USA I will no longer support their products.
I like Trump he is the only one I have seen take on the yellow horde.
Opps did I say that.
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Yet, all his trinkets are made in CHINA.
Just askin’.
 
EBAY and swap meets( I know they are all cancelled) but if you cant afford new a used Eddy is the next best choice no Chinese.
 
Dartswinger70 said:
EBAY and swap meets( I know they are all cancelled) but if you cant afford new a used Eddy is the next best choice no Chinese.
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A lot of the vintage Edelbrock castings (such as my DP4B) are superior to the new castings they make.
 
RustyRatRod said:
A lot of the vintage Edelbrock castings (such as my DP4B) are superior to the new castings they make.
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Seriously???..no dual-plane and a lot of single planes are out-performed by the Edelbrock Air-Gap its been shown!!
 
stroked340 said:
Seriously???..no dual-plane and a lot of single planes are out-performed by the Edelbrock Air-Gap its been shown!!
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I said CASTINGS dummy. As in QUALITY of metal. Do you need another intermediate shaft? lol
 
me thinks things will get expensive at some point when govt. no longer want old cars on the road
 
stroked340 said:
Right on their website "Made in U.S.A"...if not then that's false advertising which is illegal..
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No, its not false advertisement if it meets the eligibility of that tag.

"Manufacturers and marketers should not indicate, either expressly or implicitly, that a whole product line is of U.S. origin ("Our products are made in USA") when only some products in the product line are made in the U.S. according to the "all or virtually all" standard" and as for the material being imported? ....Example: If the gold in a gold ring (or aluminum in an aluminum intake) is imported , an unqualified Made in USA claim for the ring is deceptive. That’s because of the significant value the gold is likely to represent relative to the finished product, and because the gold (AL) — an integral component — is only one step back from the finished article." Who's to say where the raw AL comes from? I thought I saw a "how its made" on intakes and the smelter used scrap AL to produce a Mopar M1(!) intake. Im not sure whos foundry they outsourced the Mopar intakes to.

And I've held both Air-gap and Crosswind intakes at the same time and compared the fit and finish. The Crosswind was hands down the winner. Laser straight port walls, no core shift. Holes were cleanly tapped. I had to polished knockoff version so I can't comment on the texture, but I could tell the plenum volume was less on the crosswind, slightly shorter. The complaint I hear on the crosswind is that the flange angle has been machined at the wrong angle(!). Now that's a pretty hefty mistake (maybe be a one off that got through and the internet jumped on it like the glued together prototype turbo housing that got sold) and can be mistaken by poor head milling but since I never installed the crosswind, I cant comment on that but I did lay it down on an LA and there were no gaps. The Crosswind does not use all sand cast cores as Edelbrock does, they use steel molds at the flanges so there is no core shift.
 
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