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Title: Giant aluminum chunk gets CNC'd down to 64-pound engine block
Post by: usmusclecars on February 17, 2011, 05:48:10 PM

Source: Autoblog

If you're a billet aluminum fetishist, then today is your lucky day. Kirkham Motorsports loves aluminum and it uses the metal to build the bodies of its Cobra replicas and engine blocks. The engine blocks are billet pieces machined from a single block of aluminum – a 386-pound chuck of aluminum.

That piece of heavy metal is placed into a CNC machine where it's eventually whittled down to a 64-pound billet aluminum 427 engine block. The process requires 30 hours of CAD work, 50 hours of programming and finally 30 hours of machining. Put on your safety glasses and click on the link to watch a replica Cobra heart born.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KLNJ8d8Vqc

[youtube]8KLNJ8d8Vqc[/youtube]

Title: Giant aluminum chunk gets CNC'd down to 64-pound engine block
Post by: joe74ta on February 17, 2011, 07:00:53 PM

That's cool Yvette I embed your vid for you.

Title: Giant aluminum chunk gets CNC'd down to 64-pound engine block
Post by: sms777 on February 17, 2011, 07:13:40 PM

Do not tell Hemifish....He will buy the machine to make his own Hemi blocks....:rol::rol::rol:

Title: Giant aluminum chunk gets CNC'd down to 64-pound engine block
Post by: Hemifish on February 17, 2011, 09:16:29 PM

:fantastic: can someone BUY the CNC machine for me :drool::drool: