BTW, if you don't think cheap sells with this hobby consider this. WAY back when Edelbrock discontinued their line of 1901-1910 Q-jets and destroyed the molds I contacted them about it. An employee at that time on the tech line told me that it was purely a marketing decision.
They were selling apprx 1 Q-jet to 30,000 of their 600cfm Performer Series AFB clones. At that time the entry level Performer series 600cfm manual choke units were a tad over $200 and the Edelbrock 1910 850cfm units were closer to $500. Even though the 1910 is superior to the Performer AFB in terms of performance and efficiency they just didn't sell because of the price.
Edelbrock was also shooting themselves in the foot with the Q-jet offerings because it wasn't going to get them a matching intake manifold sale as the end user could put them on stock spread bore intakes.
So like many this associated with this hobby it's going to boil down to money (or being "cheap"), not how good something is or how well it works.........FWIW......
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