Yes,
Obviously the seller is well known to many of us but I was not aware that he planned to release repop manifolds in the near future as mentioned above. What I do know is that another eBay power seller from Chicago recently listed a cloned crossram on eBay and it sold for a decent dollar c/w dated 4295 carbs. The intake itself looked like an Offy with mods and the big thing was the fact that it had a casting date on the underside, a winters snowflake, and a GM part number. The base was an Offy without any markings and he stated right in the ad that the top plate was freshly machined as a clone.
While it looked real from the logo and markings, this seller failed to note that the front and rear overhangs should have been drilled and tapped for the 4th bolt hole, and the webbing around the distributor hole was too obvious to being an OFFY design as well. Either way, this obviously shows that the money for GM Intakes is driving the market and obviously there are people who will want to buy the clones for a fraction of the cost.
I know another carb rebuilder making near perfect clones of the 4295 carbs so what part is next? A good friend and I modified an Offy for my car and did the same with a new pair of Holley 600's. The intake was stripped of logo's, converted for a gm type linkage, and I ordered a set of the progressive throttle shafts made to clone the 4295's. You tell me what you think of this setup at about 3500.00 vs 20K for an NOS piece. The only thing we did not do was attempt to add a snow flake or part number, not that it can't be done. Its just a moral thing I guess.
