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Originally Posted by JSeery
Not sure we're keeping in mind the complexity of a flathead block compared to a modern block. If it was all that easy the folks that already have the drawings, the molds and the proto-type engines would be producing them.
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I hear that!!! But I think that most who have started such projects go into it thinking in traditional methods of casting instead of pursuing non traditional means. What I mean by that is that there are up and coming processes and technologies that would make pouring the castings cake walk for limited production runs, but unfortunately come with a cost. Its just a matter of time for those costs to come down. Technology is constantly evolving, my biggest hang up with some of my lost pla casting work has all ways been the materials.
Still there is the cost of machining.....Blah...