How a New 426 Hemi/ 440 Wedge Block is Machined @ Energy Manufacturing

[PROSTOCKTOM]

10-12 hours of machining to take a raw casting to retail. I am going to guess that those machines are in the $250 an hour range, so that's $2500 to $3000 worth of machine work.

This will help explain why a new block cost so much.




Tom

 

[71Demon540]

10-12 hours of machining to take a raw casting to retail. I am going to guess that those machines are in the $250 an hour range, so that's $2500 to $3000 worth of machine work.

This will help explain why a new block cost so much.




Tom

And needs more machine work after it’s purchased and delivered.

 

[Syleng1]

Wow! That is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Always wondered how you get a finished product like that. Now imagine it is 1970 and there was no computer controlled machines. All by hand or mechanical vs automated.

 

[ch1ll]

Wow! That is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Always wondered how you get a finished product like that. Now imagine it is 1970 and there was no computer controlled machines. All by hand or mechanical vs automated.

Originally manufactured on a assembly line machine with multiple stations, gang mill, multi drill head and multi tap head. Block goes in one end raw casting and comes out other end fully machined.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

Wow! That is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Always wondered how you get a finished product like that. Now imagine it is 1970 and there was no computer controlled machines. All by hand or mechanical vs automated.

The OEM has had machines for over a 100-years built specifically for machining blocks at a fast rate. When you make a million of them a year you can afford to have custom built machines that get it on. Henry Ford had an Ingersoll milling machine in 1912 that could machine multiple blocks at a time. I saw it several years ago in the Henry Ford Museum.

The Henry Ford’s Ingersoll Milling Machine and Mass Production at Highland Park -- The Henry Ford Blog - Blog - The Henry Ford

Tom