Joe, your opinions are all valid ones.

I spent under $1900 on my Extra using pretty high-end stuff, and making a lot of mods. If I remember correctly you spent $4-4.5K on your Cap w/ a DA100, but even if you subtract the difference in cost between the DA and ZDZ, the Cap is still 50-80% more expensive than the Extra, which is what I would expect.

As far as the looks of the elevator mod, I would assume most people would cover the old elevator servo holes. With that done, for me it would look fine, but of course that's just my opinion.

Bill