All your carb issues solved here!

Pro-Systems can do the same thing. Patrick James is a whiz.

http://www.pro-system.com/rebuild.html

I'm glad you had a good experience, I haven't heard of Jet good or bad, but I'm starting to see the light on these magazine articles. As I gather, these companies pay to have articles written about them in a shining light, and they pay quite a bit. The mags also get free stuff to us and build projects with. This is why I've let all my magazine subscriptions not be renewed. And I understand its not just automotive mags, its all of them. Maybe the rest of you have all seen the light before me and I'm just a dim bulb....

Looks like their prices have gone up since the magazine

looks good, makes me want a holley...too bad i have an edelbog....

1320stang said:

Pro-Systems can do the same thing. Patrick James is a whiz.

http://www.pro-system.com/rebuild.html

I'm glad you had a good experience, I haven't heard of Jet good or bad, but I'm starting to see the light on these magazine articles. As I gather, these companies pay to have articles written about them in a shining light, and they pay quite a bit. The mags also get free stuff to us and build projects with. This is why I've let all my magazine subscriptions not be renewed. And I understand its not just automotive mags, its all of them. Maybe the rest of you have all seen the light before me and I'm just a dim bulb....

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In my experience it's usually not payola, but it is sometimes swag or favors. Sometimes it's just that the guys running the shops are talented, and they are close enough to the freelancer geographically to make the trip cost effective. Sometimes there is a relationship that we don't know about, like they are old drinking buddies.

While I wouldn't say it's 100% objective, I would say that the level of graft is not what you think.

Also, when freelancers get swag that is crap, they tend to just not run the story, rather than run a negative piece. As big as this industry is, people tend to stay in it for life, and usually work for more than one company. rarely are bridges burned by editorial objectivity.

I have a lot of friends in the industry that I would just ditch the articleand tell them about the flaws rather rather than call them out to thousands of people. KInd of a professional courtesy, if you will.