The big advantage is never having to pick up the iron one again. Worth a couple franklins to me.
Boy howdy- last week I was looking thru the triple stacks of intakes on the shelf, Streetmasters, SDs, RPMs and such, and at the bottom of one stack, this blue thing- and realized it was an iron CJ manifold, on a shelf over 4' up- HITF did I get that 88 lb beast up there? Then remembered- 'Lil Forker. Has a 4-cylinder Continental that is about 14" long in it, is 34" wide so you can drive it through a 36" door, and lifts 1000 lbs to 7 ft. To get a relative size, the box on the forks is one I built to ship a short-tail toploader, and that's a little walk-behind rototiller next to it. If I need to move it in the shop, I don't even have to start it, I can push it around by hand. Best $500 I ever spent