HemiTronix

I think a large portion of the cost is in the wiring harness. If you've tried to price out the individual connectors and pins it starts adding up, not to mention the copper wire with it's cost lately. I'm not saying the prices are fair, I agree they're high, just that I have seen some of the reasoning behind it when I looked into connectors. I thought about getting a bulkhead connector to pass through the firewall on my computer setup and while the connector itself is only around $20-30, the pins are $1-3 apiece, and when you need 25+ pins per side of the connector that becomes a decent chunk of change.

I remember seeing this on an AEM computer I did for a college project. The computer was a little under $2k I believe, but a bare harness that was just the big plug that went to the computer with 72" of wire and NO connectors on the other end was $700+. Pretty bad when the harness can cost as much as some computers...

That being said, my MSD ignition harness was only $250 and it had all the connectors already installed and even wrapped up in a nice braided cover, so there's some pretty obvious skewed pricing out there.