[Alan Roehrich]

I don't know that Edelbrock has completely stopped casting the "replacement heads". I would think that they have reduced their foundry operations substantially, and they make what they need most, and then select something lower on the list when they need to fill in some time gaps. You'll see them cast short runs of parts that they know there's enough pent up demand for that they can sell 95% of what they produce in less than 90 days. So, if you see something that you want or need, or think that you will in the foreseeable future, you better buy it.It could be a long time before you see it again.



Unfortunately, Edelbrock has joined the ever growing number of companies absorbed by the massive private equity hold corporations. This has hit the automotive performance industry extremely hard, and does not look to be slowing down. The companies that you depend on for parts, and the companies that they depend on for materials, in ever increasing numbers, have been purchased by people who care ONLY about the 30 day short term bottom line. Hence, so long as they can maintain their profit targets by producing only A and B movers, you're not going to get too many parts, and you're going to pay dearly for them.


As far as aftermarket parts go, that genie is out of the bottle, we're never getting it back into the bottle, the best we can do is control it and improve it where possible. I'm another person who doesn't care for all of the aftermarket parts, Hell, I wish they'd never allowed smaller journals, or porting and polishing. All it did was allow more cheating, and escalate the cost. But they did. It's a waste of time, especially in a discussion like this one, to cry over the spilled milk. And NHRA can't put the genie back in the bottle, either. They tried recently, they got sued for doing it. Don't expect them to try too hard in the future.


The best that you can do is try to get the most usable and most affordable parts accepted. And try to keep some of the ludicrous crap out.