Physical modifications in castings - The Supercar Registry

#10

12-06-2022, 08:17 PM

bergy

Yenko Contributing Member

Join Date: Feb 2005

Location: Pennsylvania, Florida

Posts: 2,854

Thanks: 969

Thanked 1,587 Times in 423 Posts

casting changes

Finally, the mold was closed by setting the top half flask (with the green sand impression of the top of the casting) onto the lower half of the mold (with cores in place).

Then - the completed mold traveled on a conveyor to the metal pouring station where the mold was filled with molten iron at roughly 2600 degrees F.

After shake out, blast cleaning, and grinding - that block looked like this

Attached Images

The Following 22 Users Say Thank You to bergy For This Useful Post:
1967Z28 (12-07-2022), 67 Nova Boy (12-07-2022), 67since67 (12-07-2022), 69M22Z (12-06-2022), BCreekDave (12-06-2022), carnut4life (12-06-2022), Charley Lillard (12-08-2022), cook_dw (12-07-2022), COPO (12-07-2022), dustinm (12-06-2022), dykstra (12-06-2022), Jonesy (12-08-2022), jwbavalon (12-06-2022), L16pilot (12-07-2022), L78_Nova (12-06-2022), L_e_e (12-06-2022), McCune (12-06-2022), mssl72 (12-06-2022), RPOLS3 (12-07-2022), Steve Shauger (12-07-2022), SuperNovaSS (12-12-2022), Xplantdad (12-06-2022)

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Forum Rules

Forum Jump

All times are GMT. The time now is 12:11 AM.

Dedicated to the Promotion and Preservation of American Muscle Cars, Dealer built Supercars and COPO cars.