Reply to "Wilwood Brakes - Component #'s??"

I understand the loyalty factor but I have acess to a machinist/metal guy with all the tools and materials to make the brackets. for aobut $100 bucks I'd guess
I've seen the Superlight calipers go for 90 bucks each new on ebay
$400 shipped
Booster with step bore master $450 from precision
Hoses $130 (which is roughlky twice what I paid for goodrige lines for my Alpina b7. (bought it when I was a kid)
so im missing hardware (bought a TON of metric 8.8 and stainless hardware when a local store went tetts)
Rotors and hats? Cost? a wilwood proportioning valve $40
pads? a $150 maybe for street performance compound?
Billet ebrake (from a local member)
$200-$250 or trade for parts.
So without the rotors and hats Im at
$1450 or so. A long ways from $3250
That money could almost buy a set of 17 campys.
Am I missing something?
Don't get me wrong I agree with supporting vendors. (I really like Steve Wilkenson) but after my experience yeterday buying cam belts for my duc 748 that had just doubled in price at the local dealer because the part had been superceded (renumbered) my loyalty only goes so far before looking at where and how my money is going. The economy is in the sh!tter right now and I don't have the disposable income to throw at toys like I did the last two years. Yet I want to enjoy and justify the money spent on my equity line to put the red 71 in my garage. I've driven it all of twice and since the seller only put one bolt in my swaybar bracket and I knew nothing about needing scales to calibrte the carrera shocks I got off the PWT pantera, The car just sits. Sorry got off subject. having owned a 71 dodge challenger and a ducati I am no stranger to inflated part prices. I guess all I 'm saying is this thread did not answer itself. To me it looked more like an admonition to shop at PIM,Hall. Also please notice that a large portion of my parts came from pantera vendors. Thanks
Ryan