On behalf of SDCE, I would like to comment on your post.

We do still offer the carb hats for those interested. Unfortunately we do not have any in stock and were waiting for the foundry to make more. Then our shop was flooded...and that pushed our entire schedule back.

Yes, we did take a beating on the turbo forums with the info that was posted at the time. We're not sure how that entire post went the way it did, but hey, that's the internet for you.

As far as how many hats "blew up"....here is where we need to clear the air. It was only ONE hat that was misused and failed. When that customer expressed an interest in purchasing our hat, we had many phone conversations with him and because he was local, we even offered FREE CHASSIS DYNO TUNING after hearing what some of his past experiences were.
He opted to do it himself, and the end result is all over the forum.

So the bottom line is of the 300 or so SDCE hats out there, only one failed.

We have MANY years of research into that hat design. It was originally created in 1998.