Cost of Edelbrock
Right on their website "Made in U.S.A"...if not then that's false advertising which is illegal..
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.
