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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
As the originals were sand cast, would it be cost effective for a manufacturer to reproduce the DCO in the small quantities needed? Then there would be the specific to engine type manifolds needed as well. Can’t see it happening, but it would obviously get a few people out of difficulties!
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It's a lot easier/cheaper to reproduce sand cast things than die-cast.
C&G used to make 58DCOs.
At least one outfit are currently making 45DCOs for Jaguars.
Not sure how much the Jag ones are but the 58s were quite (!) expensive.
The FIA will probably say the car is worth far more than the cost of the carbs - which is true for some of them but possibly not for some Climax single cam powered cars for example.
I guess it depends on your definition of cost effective.