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Introduction to Edelbrock's Foundry & Core Making

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Edelbrock Aluminum Foundry and Machining Full Tour & Behind the Scenes! (Pouring Molten Metal!)

What happens here

The video begins with a quick overview of various stages of the manufacturing process, highlighting molten metal pouring, furnace operations, and machine adjustments. The narrator introduces the Edelbrock Aluminum Foundry in San Jacinto, California, emphasizing their 'Made in USA' commitment for products like cylinder heads, intake manifolds, and valve covers. A casting engineer, Patrick Martinez, then introduces the core department, explaining that this entire area is dedicated to making cores. He mentions the use of three different types of sand for the core making process.

Goal: Understand Edelbrock's manufacturing philosophy and the initial stages of core creation.

Tools and materials

  • Cutter Heads — Adjusting angles for precision machining
  • Large Industrial Furnace — Melting aluminum and keeping it at high temperatures
  • Molten Metal Crucible — Holding and pouring molten aluminum
  • Aluminum — Raw material for casting engine components
  • Sand — Used to create internal sand cores

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Made in the USA every single day. Oh my god. We can actually adjust the angle of these cutter heads. We do still hand finish all of the intake man. I love visual demonstrations like this. You call them and someone answers the phone. This is where they're sitting. If you've ever wondered how Edel Brock cylinder heads, intake manifold, valve covers, anything cast aluminum like that gets made. We're about to find out because we are at the Edel Brock foundry in Sanento, California. Let's go on in and check it out. the whole core department. This is where we make cord. We have three different types of sands. We have some some sands that we're curing with gas, some that we're curing with heat. That's called the cold box core process. And these yellow ones are called the hot box process. All these boxes that you see here, these are all hot boxes. Anything you see here are all

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