Typhoon EFI manifolds

Has anyone heard any pro's or con's on the Professional Products Typhoon EFI intakes ?? I saw them on E-bay for buy now at 279.00 .. for the upper and lower set.. about 200 cheaper than the rest out there .. has anyone had any experiance with these manifolds or seen any articles on them... ???

I have heard they work well, its almost the exact same casting as the Edelbrock performer RPM. 279 sounds like a great deal.

Great segue! Look at the article we put up today:

http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2...ke/index.shtml

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UN-BELIEVABLE timing for the article... Also in pursuit of information on the manifolds I called a performance parts distributor in Miami we deal with to see if they had them .. Our sales rep said they do carry them and had sold 12 in the last year .. 2 just before Christmas .. He said he has never gotten any bad feedback on them .. but said he knew the owner one of the shops that bought 2 of them and would contact them and get some feedback .. and I'll pass it along ... So far it looks like what the FM article stated .. saving the cost by detailing the manifolds yourself or paying the namebrands to do it for you ...

I like a bargain just as much as the next guy, but these foreign "ripoff" copies are just one more example of jobs and American dollars ending up overseas. Products "MADE IN THE USA" may cost more, but the up side to that is you and your American brothers and sisters can make a decent wage to pay for homes and live prosperous lives. Some may say "it's only an intake manifold" or think It won't affect my job. Wake up and look around, this eventually harms all Americans and our way of life. Enough of the "soap box", but if you can, please buy American.

Definatly buy American when you can. The thing that really frosts me is these guy's blatently ripped off the Edelbrock design. Hell yes they can sell it cheep with slave labor. On top of that they don't have to pay engineers and technicians to design and develop the product...they just steal it. Not only are they off loading American manufacturing jobs, but they are also hurting the engineering and technical jobs by ripping off the DD. Won't find one of them POS products on a car of mine.

Whoooaaaaa there guys. You just might want to think for a second here on this "buy American Made" bandwagon. Why do manufacturer's\owners of companies purchase parts or assemblies form overseas in the first place? Because we won't pay for it &amp; always look for some way to maintain our lifestyle through thrifty spending habits. Why do we have to watch our money &amp; "cheap out"? Well, let's se, we got a wife, kid, new car, responsibilities to pay our bills, and maybe support our parents. Wages in the manufacturing sector are going down &amp; yet the prices for the items they produce have only gone up. Hmmmmm.....wonder why this is? Something has to give to keep profits up for a buisness to survive. Worker's comp. costs have tripled in the last couple years, insurance(many types)costs have at least doubled, raw materials costs have increased 50% in the last year,etc. You're darn toot'in we are buying product manufactured from overseas to build sellable product! As you've probably surmised, I do work in a large manufacturing company. Why do you think Walmart has grown as large as they have &amp; tell me you don't EVER shop there...

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I have and plan to always buy american made products when possible. Sad thing is, it's getting harder every day to find American made products. I blame corporate America for alot of this problem. Making a decent profit used to be good enough, now corporations, insurance businesses(rackets), etc. are guilty of plain old "greed" at the expense of the regular working guy/gal. These companies set unrealistic profit objectives (lets say 100 million for the year as an example) and then sqwal like a mashed cat that they fail to meet those objectives (they only made a profit of 90 mill). They call this a "loss" and impose layoffs and or move businesses overseas. Joe American factory worker may make $20 an hour, mister overseas labor may make $20 a week, that's a huge difference. Can you honestly say that when you go to the store, you see that same huge differnce in price between American made and non-american made products of the same quality. I don't think so!! Where is that money going? Into mister job cutting CEO and board of directors pockets!!!! How much social security, workmans comp, health benefits, etc. do you think they have to pay overseas? Not many lawyers to be hounding them overseas either, and I'm pretty sure OSHA regs don't exist when you cross the border. Are those good and ethical reasons to move jobs overseas? Not in my book! Sure, I shop at Walmart, thats just a fact of life, doesn't mean I like it. Of course it is helping the people that work there to squeak out a living.

Matt said it. I agree 100%

You can't set up free trade with countries that don't play by our same rules. Rules that are sometimes so ridiculus they defy logic.

We had a guy in our building fixing the fire alarms. He could climb the ladder and work on these ceiling mounted sensors, but it was not allowed to carry the small, lightweight ladder from sensor to sensor. Our maintenance guy was tied up doing that all day. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Combine that, with the fact that almost ANYONE who hurts themselves (even if it is completely their own stupid fault) wants to SUE their employer and milk as much money as possible out of the system... and you'll see why nobody wants to own a manufacturing plant in the USA.

Combine this with the EPA, OSHA, high wages and benefits, etc.... and you can see why big business wants to move overseas. If it's a near 'brainless' job, why pay a someone here big bucks to do it in an environment nearly paralyzed by the above organizations? Go to Mexico, or even better yet, China... and get the parts made with no hassles!

If you were the boss of a global company, and had to compete with others doing the same thing, it would be your only choice!

As someone said, if our economy is going 'global', our economy will continue to go down while the rest of the world catches up.

We have free trade with countries that don't play by our same rules. Thank Clinton, he's the one that originally came up with NAFTA, (North American Free Trade Agreement) He also pioneered free trade with China. To those holding certain stocks, it was a great thing in the short run. Profits soared, and stock prices went through the roof! Only bad thing, is the loss of jobs eventually caught up with us. Yea, the computer revolution masked the whole thing for a while, but once all the businesses got wired and that slowed down, the true price of NAFTA is finally showing itself.

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Three years into the new administration...and it's still Clinton's fault? Oh, well, I guess despite the expanding markets, budget surpluses, and new highs for the stock market during his administration were too good to be true.

I wonder, do you think the Enron directors were democrats or republicans?

Its a good thing that he was ousted and we are now being put back on the right track. Last I heard, we are at less than 6% unemployment. The word is, everyone that wants a job, has one.