360-1 Casting better?

I have a son who works at the largest grey iron foundry in the world...six blocks from my house.

Waupaca Foundry casts many different products from brake rotors to transmission cases to hot water boilers. They have their own landfill where used sand goes to die.

My son is a foreman in the mill room where the castings are rough ground and have their excess sawed off. Another son spent several years there too.

They operate automated "Disa's" which pour the iron into the molds.

There is a pattern company in town that supplies patterns to them.

One of my boys had a 271HP Ford 289 that was cast here in town...had the WF logo cast in the lifter valley. The foundry president insisted they never cast any engine blocks for Ford until I showed him a photo of the WF logo inside the engine. He was one of the earliest employees from the 1950's and all he could do was scratch his head in disbelief!!!