True that was definitely a deciding factor in buying this carb, if it only came in the aluminum body version I would have gotten something like a Holley Street Avenger. I didn't have enough room for a spacer under my AFB so I used a heat-shield plate which kind of worked but it still sucked in warm weather. I wish I could rig up a water-heated crossover passage for the intake to keep it consistent; just going from putting around town to running down the freeway cools it off a lot and throws off the AFR. I'm tuning it for when the intake is fully warm but that's not all that often really.