C5natie

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After the cost of r&d and production plus realizing that most enthusiasts won't but an intake from a no name company on top of the lack of demand I think you'll find that the intakes you make will need to sell for WAY more than a FAST. LOL. There's a reason big companies that have been around for a while still go under.

LS1Adam84

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$30 to $40k ? How many would be produced or is that just for making a single mold?

C5natie

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I believe he said that's just the mold. Especially if its a multi piece setup. It's not cheap at all. That why only a few companies even make intakes for LS motors. I say money is in making an affordable individual throttle body intake. Those are bad *** and make (support) a ton of power not to mention awesome throttle response. They cost $3000-6000 and are mostly In Australia or Europe. Those would be easier to reproduce out of sheetmetal. $1000-1500 they'll sell like pancakes.

ZexGX

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https://ls1tech.com/forums/advanced-...s-engines.html

C5natie

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Well someone's trying at least someone's trying....a year ago. Lol, he probably gave up. Those Harrop and Kinsler units are like $6k. Trust me I looked for something affordable before getting my 102.

LS1Adam84

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Its a tad hard to make a truly functioning itb for an fbody, I saw this really good setup that was on this c6 at cms, and by really good I mean **** poor, some other guy made the setup no bueno.

C5natie

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Id only buy one from one of the companies i mention and yeah ive only seen them on vettes and race cars where the engine is more out in the open compared to the fbod with the back of the engine under the cowl.

juniorz28

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Ill take $1,500 for my set up plus ur ls6 manifold and tb ..lol

BigDaddyBry

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If I understood correctly, the one mold could be used to press both pieces. I know nothing about the process, I only brought it up to a customer, who is a car guy, and coincidentally had the tooling.

Making the math simple, selling at $700, at 50% margin, you'd need to sell 100 to break even. If that math were correct, someone would be doing it.

Best bet would be to contact a Chinese company that would produce exact replicas down to the FAST name for $200 and sell them as "real". Then chance you won't get caught.