I can't get the Summit carbs in Canada without paying expensive shipping and brokerage fees, by which time, the price difference between the Street Demon bought locally, and the Summit carbs makes me pause. The Summit carb is $259.97, Shipping is $26.45, and Tax and Duty is $18.00 (all in US dollars). This works out to $US305 in round numbers, or about $335-340 Canadian. The Street Demon is $350 locally, and with 5% GST comes out to $368. So the difference comes out to be $33-$28 (Canadian). I will need to think about this some. $32 isn't a huge amount of cash, but I would rather it be in my pocket vs. it not being in my pocket. And I will need at least two of these carbs, whichever I go with.
I don't know Dave (demonsizzler), Dave Moore, Rob/RustyRatRod, or Scott from Harm Auto, having never met them. They are all way too far away to allow me to meet with them face to face, so I can only rely on the experiences of others. I don't have anything against Dave (demonsizzler), I just can't seem to get into contact with him. I don't know Dave Moore either, so his experience may or may not be an indication of what Dave (demonsizzler) is about these days. For all I know, Dave Moore and Dave (demonsizzler) may have some sort of a mis-communication issue that they haven't resolved yet/aren't going to resolve, or it may be a personal issue between them. It doesn't make a difference to me as of the moment, because I can't get in touch with Dave (demonsizzler) anyway, and I won't be taking sides in this situation without knowing a lot more of what went on; I have two people (Ramenth and NoCar340) that I do trust telling me that both Dave (demonsizzler) and Dave Moore are good guys. I take that at face value on the basis of who is saying that, but the point is pretty well moot at this time.
Rob/RustyRatRod is not doing carb rebuilds at this time as per his own emails, although he seems really knowledgeable and willing to pass on that knowledge, and advised that I "shelve" the TQs I own in favour of a TQ that already has a vacuum port, as his experience adding a vacuum port has not been good.
Scott at Harm Auto hasn't gotten back to me yet. At this point, there is no recognized "TQ expert" who is willing to rebuild my carbs, so my orignal idea of having the carbs rebuilt and adding a vacuum port doesn't seem to be possible, which is what got me thinking about the Street Demon.
My thoughts are that for some amount of money over what it would take to get the TQs rebuilt, I can get an all new Street Demon that already has the vacuum port that I want to use with the vacuum advance distributor (to get rid of the ESA ignition), is a spreadbore (sort of) and end up with a carb in which all the parts are new, instead of just what has been replaced during the rebuild. Just writing down some thoughts.
Kostas
