I got that BLP carb at no cost since it was featured in a magazine article but you're correct, the average guy is going to pay a lot for a full race carb like that one.

If I was working on the Brick these days I'd sell that carb and put a Holley Sniper on there. I'd much rather spend $1000 on EFI than on a carb. The Holley Sniper will run better than a carb since there won't be any fuel slosh and it has a built in data logger. We would've loved to have a data logger on the Brick. That would've been awesome for track days. Back then it was super expensive to buy a data logger and now they come for free when you buy a $995 EFI system.