I hear ya Mike.

Several years ago I had a young friend that wanted me to rebuild his 1407 Edelbrock that he had on a Holley Z-28 knockoff manifold on a 327 in his ’68 Camaro. He had attempted such himself with a $10 kit from Uncle-Billy’s-Bong-in-a-Box parts store. The top gasket and had leaks that he had tried to fix with Permatex. It was a right mess for sure.

At the time, our local independent parts store (run by a prince of a guy named Rich) was struggling to stay in business as a big new chain store had opened and they were selling a lot of imported stock. Rich had finally come to the decision and was having a “going out of business sale” when I stopped by to pick up a kit. He was a stocking Edelbrock dealer and had a box of kits on the counter – all at half price. He had four of the EDL-1477 kits (made in America!) and made me a great deal of $80 for all of them. I also bought all of his Gasgacinch (half dozen or so) as well as a couple T-shirts and an assortment of rods and jet kits.

Long story short – we cleaned up this 1407 and put a new Edelbrock kit in it and she ran like Jack the Bear from idle to 6,000 RPM. I’ve long since used the 1477 kits and a lot of the jets and rods on various 1406/1407 and 1412/1413 and never had an issue with the Edelbrock parts. I still have a can or two of unopened Gasgacinch – good stuff!