Edelbrock???
 

I see Edelbrock discontinued the NHRA legal cylinder heads... I was considering buying a set of 61607s.... Whats going on with this company?? Most products out of stock and others discontinued??? What are they turning Edelbrock into RHS with a few basic china made SBC head and manifold options??? I dont understand the new direction? It seems they are out of touch with the real racer and trying to only offer a few economy street options... idk I could be overeacting.

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Private equity, buy out. Harvard business school, its all about the cash flow......
Dart's another example and many others.
Accounting/ finance people are in charge, not the racers that built the businesses like Maskins and Edelbrock.
These guys may have not had MBA's but they build very successful companies.

Steve Teeter STK/SS 620.

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Vic's absence.

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This was my #1 takeaway from the PRI show, private equity is taking over much of the performance racing industry, meaning the bean counters are running the show instead of the innovators who made the companies great in the first place. Had a long conversation with the head of one such company, and it got me wondering if this might be a means to control the performance aftermarket as a whole.

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For the last few months, Edelbrock companies-Comp Cams, Fast, TCI etc, have added 5% to the bottom of ALL invoices. A few days ago, received an email from them as of Jan 17, 2022 ?, All invoices, they will now ADD 10 %.

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Welcome to inflation. For those that were not around in the 70's , cash becomes worth less than it was last month. If you
need something, buy it sooner than later. The other option is to buy nothing but Stocks or Gold and Silver and Bit coin.
Thank you Joe!!
Now if I could just get PPPC
to ship my lifters.!!!

Steve Teeter STK/SS 620

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Just google "Race Winning Brands" and scroll around to follow the **** show -
it looks like it was a subsidiary of some equity firm..... and was recently sold and bought by another.

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I wonder if the RPM Act has anything to do with it.

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Because the original owners took the buyout, got paid and left.

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Yeah that Race Winning Brands thing really worried me... They got alot of great and diverse companys.... and who knows where RWB is going... bought and sold and bought and sold....

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Are my parts orders placed in October going to be hit with January's price increase? That's GRP and JE.

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How it worked back during the similar high inflation times years ago is, manufactures quoted you the price at order entry. Then there was this little clause.

"Actually Price May Vary at Time of Shipment."

Most manufactures would call before shipping and give you the price and then the option to cancel ( if it was a normal manufactured item).
If you did not want it at the price, the next guy in line was called.
Unfortunately it seems we are headed to "Back to the 70's".

Steve Teeter Stk SS 620

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Saw this thread on Monday. Ordered Edelbrock 60974 SS legal bare heads right afterwards on Amazon before they become extinct and/or stupid expensive. They arrived yesterday.

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It is a shame, we try to support companies that support racing but I found over the last couple years while building my car a lot of parts are either back ordered or not avaliable through the normal performance companies, you go to Amazon and there they are and shipping is fast. I don't like Amazon but will buy from them if that is the only place that has the piece.

Randy Wells
I/S 5628

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Same here Randy. I start at the parts source and work out from there to find the parts based on how fast I want/need them. My next choice was ebay as a few new sets are listed on there.