With a company like FAST (owned by Competition Cams) and their plenum for the LS family engines they are A) large enough to absorb that R&D cost and spread it out over a long period of sales and B) hitting a large enough market to be able to sell thousands of those manifolds over time so that the initial break even point comes early in the product life cycle and not as it's maxing out market potential.
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