I can understand why there might be some skeptics in the group.  


Does anybody have the know-how and time to pull a group-buy fabrication project like this off?  I think that with say the cost of say 10 manifolds, the price per copy would fall dramatically over a one-off, but is there enough interest.  


I'd like to see it happen, but with a 3 year-old, a full time flying job that keeps me away, earning my masters degree, starting a business, and my own RV-7 project, I think it'd be easier to drop the plans in a fabricator's hands and write the check.   Short of doing that, are there options I should consider?


Heck, I might just have to write a check for a one-off, but this is a community right.  We can work together.


Regards, 
Bill