Guess they need to mark up the parts prices when you consider all the R&D work they do to bring you the product in the first place, and the products of the future, or have you forgotten about that. Guess you will just wait around until they clone those too, so it fits into your budget?
Let me ask you this, if you were producing a manifold and Procomp cloned it and put you on welfare, would you be happy about it? I guess the upside would be that you could buy your own manifold cheaper than you could actually produce it for yourself, that would be a money saver..