PDA

View Full Version : V8 Engine block machined from solid


Remix
31-07-2007, 02:34 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o
titmeat
31-07-2007, 03:02 AM
thats awesome
makes you wonder how they made them in the older days
McKVNT
31-07-2007, 05:01 AM
cast
JME
31-07-2007, 08:02 AM
Yep Cast, usually in sand moulds then cleaned up.

I know the guys from street scene had the 4.0L toyota v8 block machined from a solid piece of alloy. Seemed to find the reliable limit of the block at around 1000hp. Fancy piece of gear. Now running around 1400hp no problems.
Roobiks
31-07-2007, 10:11 AM
werd

we had one of those fully automated routers at my last work... cheap old price of ~1.3mil and you can have one and all the licenses for it at home :)

creating the programs for it was exceedingly time consuming for even simple things like plaques and I think one of the more senior guys did a gearbox bellhousing in his lunch breaks over the space of about a year lol.

I wouldnt even like to think how long it took to write the program for a v8 block :S