Ask those goofballs why they haven’t built any Oldsmobile big block Performer RPM air gap intakes in a year. I ordered one and paid for it with Summit racing in May! got my performer rpm aluminum heads two weeks later but still waiting on my intake manifold and they’re holding up my entire engine build!!
Shoot Edelbrock has burned a spot in my heart. I grew up in. Speed shop. As a kid I would handle all the stock and their manifolds always looked nicer then the others. I remember buying my first one for my own car still to this day.
Of course I read your comments Mitchell! I drive a white '07 LBZ CCSB. Man, y'all just keep killing it with your content! Tours that are not only cool as hell, but take us to places that have so much heritage and where most folks probably never get the chance to see. Thanks for what you guys do! LOVE IT!!
I work at a foundry in Wisconsin. It's different than sand casting, we do hollow molds that go through a different process than sand. Pretty neat to watch honestly. Some of our parts are very intricate. The parts start out as a wax pattern, that pattern gets melted out of a shell that is dipped in a multitude of different elements to hold its shape, and dries into a hollow cavity. Molten steel is then poured into the molds. Molds cool, outer shell material is removed.
I'm an architect and some years ago I did some work for Atlas Foundry in Tacoma WA. They were making parts for nuclear sub reactors at the time and had an x-ray room for testing the parts that was definitely scary. Put out enough x-rays to kill you if you ever got caught inside. They had tons of safety precautions of course.
In 35 to 40 years, and 100's if not 1000's of Edelbrock products, NEVER ONCE have I been not happy. Solid products. always has been, the employees there clearly love their craftsmanship and know their skill sets. I can remember being about 16 years old and needed a new intake, as the factory unit corroded through where the neck is and Edelbrock is the only name I knew of, so, I got one. Please note, a tunnel ram or long runner intake sure looked cool, so I ordered one of those, and completely forgot to think about, I need to now cut a hole in the hood, LOL.. My dad was just shaking his head. I remember my dad saying, "Son, once you go this route, there is no turning back.. Not realizing, he wasn't just simply talking about cutting a hole in my hood, it was the newly found addiction to HP.. My first after market part and actually got to see and feel the improvements in HP. For a silly kid, I was hooked on HP ever since.
Hi, this is totally off-topic here, but because there's just so many replies to your recent comment under that @d4a video, this is the only way I could think of to actually contact you. Is there any way we could talk without the overzealous YT automoderation getting in the way?
@@mskiptr I don't see why not. I must say, I hope you are understanding all my efforts are just that, while noting, I am not an expert at anything, but more over, I don't don't fear trying new things, either in efforts to just see if I can do them, or out of curiosity, that is direct results of something I had already done or due to future plans and education must take place before I get to the next stage of a problem or project. But sure, I don't mind speaking to you personally.
@@drubradley8821 Thanks! And btw, it's not like I "have this awesome idea that will definitely fix all the issues with these engines" or "have come up with the ultimate solution to the lubrication problem". Actually, I don't really want to talk about making the engine work. I'm no mechanical engineer. The topic I have in mind is more about YT instead. So could you write to me? My address is just
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Led a team of foundry maintenance engineers for years. Cast iron and aluminum foundries. Damn hot and noisy, but awesome band of foundry workers. Great content once again. Keep it going.
My father worked in a foundry (Dodge Steel) in the 1950s. He told me that setting up the pour for a new pattern was part science and part art back then. Couldn't be taught in school, it had to be learned from an experienced person. That computer modeling software is very cool! When the company decided that every employee above a certain level had to have a college degree the person that set up the pours got fired. Of course that man was almost instantly hired by another foundry. My dad always felt that was the beginning of the end for Dodge Steel. By the way, love the channel. Keep on talking to the old guys! When they pass on it would be a shame to lose what they knew.
Awesome video guys would have never known just how large Edelbrock manufacturing has become. It is real interesting to learn about the behind the scenes stuff that goes into the product. Thank you!
Great video, thanks for sharing! I designed and started up the two furnaces used to make the molten aluminum in this foundry! Love seeing them still making castings!
Thanks for taking us where we never thaught posable . I am blown away by all the processes that happen behind the scenes at Edelbrock . What a vast organization , and proudly American!!!!. I'm totally crushed by your video . many thanks..Stu from Canada...................................
Awesome tour guys! I worked as a pattern maker for 30 years and I always enjoyed visiting the various foundries and seeing the tooling I produced being used. We made a ton of the red plastic core boxes (cold process) as well as hot boxes and some permanent mold tooling. It's great to see Edelbrock truly manufacturing in the USA, not just assembling parts sourced from around the globe.
The only foundry I’ve been in, two or three of them, are bronze foundries. Sculptures. And how they go from a 12” tall statue to a 25’ tall one blows my mind. This place would be true cad guy heaven and just, in awe.
Thanks for another very informative, fun, factory tour. Edelbrock is one of the first, & foremost original companies to manufacture after market components as direct bolt on replacements available to not only racing teams, but to anyone whom wanted to improve performance of their own vehicles.
I worked in an aluminium foundry for 30 years - the company pioneered the sand moulding and we also had a sand foundry as we had a lot of castings that needed sand moulds.
I love these videos ! I'm 70 and i was fortunate to be a plant engineer for 25 years at an upstate NY. cutlery co. We made quality stamped knives and all types of cutting blades. we performed all the processes in one plant. We stamped stainless steel, did heat treatment , Grinding , polishing , edge grinding , made and assembled handles. Some of the specialty machine were engineered and made in our own machine shop. Just like your video subjects say, it is very gratifying to see a product go from start to finish. In the 70's and 80's we had many companies that did just that! Now i drive by these rundown buildings that use to house Mfg. companies of all sorts, and i feel sorry that workers don't have the opportunity to be a part of a team that took pride in working to produce a quality product that could consumers could rely on ! As you might imagine I'm a car guy , Corvette ! really any thing with a motor! I always tow a trailer ! you just never know what you might want to bring home!!!
My dad was a molder, he made molds mostly for brass and aluminum. I kinda grew up in a foundry even though dad did everything he could to prevent me from going into foundy work because of the risk and danger. I ended up as a career Marine...much safer! LOL I drive a 2010 Impala SS with a Whipple supercharger and a 100hp shot of NO2.
Another amazing video! It's really nice to see something still made in America. Pretty cool seeing the process from ingot to finished product. That black plasma coating looks sick! Suck it Cole
One of the most impressive videos showing the back ground and manufacturing of items that heaps of people use everyday, personally I have visited Harrop Engineering in Melbourne, I loved the time there just walking around asking questions to the workers mind blowing, I had done work in other foundries in South Australia in the 1990s both Aluminum and Iron. Keep up the great work you two.
The casting was one of my favourite parts of school. We were taught this when I was about 12 years old. From start to finish. What a great experience that was. ✌️🇺🇲✌️🇬🇧
Probably the coolest thing ive ever seen as far as foundrys is the Ferrrari factory video tour, you cant beleive the engineering and thought that they put into each car, every part of their cars are made in their own factory, every block, head, valve, intake, crankshaft, timing set, etc is forged or cast at their own facility nothing is farmed out ! They even have special alloy formulas for each part that they also formulate and use in all the parts including the bodies and space frames
I have worked as a Union Millwright in the steel mills around northwest Indiana. Even after 26 years, it is still amazing! Thank you for your videos!!!
My dad was a wood pattern maker back in the late 40's to the late 70's. Served his apprenticeship at Ford Motor Company, and later went to the job shops to make more money. Back then he made tons of money with overtime etc.. They ended up getting rid of most of the pattern makers in the Detroit area, but he had a great career. I read the comments and I drive a Corvette
One of my favorite jobs was a mold maker at a foundry. We used a mix of reclaimed sand, new sand and various chemicals as the binder. Messy, hot, cold and dangerous. I loved every day, till I started driving. The science behind this investment type casting is pretty amazing. Great content as usual, keep up the great work.
I worked for Gerdau steel in Fort Smith Arkansas as a temp to hire on the Q.C. program. I worked right next to the massive cooling bed. It looked like half a football fields worth of red hot steel rods that made so much heat you couldn't see clearly across it. Literally the hardest job I ever did...I didn't stick it out. I couldn't imagine leaving work every day with acute swamp ass so bad it's hard to make the half-mile walk to the lot.
I was the owner of the company that transported the furnaces and all the machinery used in setting up this foundry. FYI they don't just make Edelbrock parts. They produce castings for whoever so as to maximize productivity and utilization. This was one of Edelbrock" better ideas.
This reminded me of my high school days. I was very lucky to be able to do different things to learn about how to make things, as I was learning about those type of processes. It was how I learned my love for building things, and the world of being a mechanic back in the very early 70’s. I actually made a sand mold, and made an aluminum casting of a fish. Did the whole process by hand. Thanks for the memories.
I worked for a heavy equipment and engine maker in IL in various roles: CNC, assembly and in their iron casting foundry. I have an Edelbrock Airgap intake on my 360 Lil Red Express, so neat to seeing Edelbrock’s aluminum foundry in operation. The foundry I worked in once made NASCAR engine blocks for Pontiac and Dodge. Their foundry was way cleaner than the foundry I worked in for 6 years. We poured a huge amount of iron every year. I shook out hundreds of thousands of heads and engine blocks there, made cores, ran heat treat ovens, set cores, finned parts, ran Manmates too in the Shake Out areas. Now I’m retired.
Thanks for the content. There was a lot of speculation about the Edelbrock facilities 2 years ago. Now we know what's up. 1963 Mercury Comet hardtop, stroker SBF w/ Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold 👍
I work at a machine shop. KSB.. We are the 4th biggest pumo manufacturer in the world.. I work at standard alloys division in Port Arthur TX and we have a foundry that casts all our parts. I was supposed to have a tour of the foundry when I was hired but covid restrictions made it where I couldn't. I have been at this shop for 2 years now and it's pretty cool that we make all our parts from start to finish. I'm a cnc machinist and programmer. This was a really cool video. I'm also a car guy... My dad was a master mechanic and always had race cars and I was a mechanic also for a few years. Just moved to machining and liked it alot more... I still have a turbo foxbody though and wrench on that all the time.
I've never been in a foundry, but I've been in some really large automotive assembly plants (Nissan in Tennessee and Toyota in Indiana). Honestly though, the one that impressed me the most was the MTD lawn mower manufacturing facility in Tennessee, mainly because I didn't understand how big of a business selling lawnmowers was until I went into that gigantic factory.
Seems like you always ask If we watched the whole episode. I personally have finished every one I've started, and thats most all you've posted. It's like you custom made this channel for me.Keep up the good work, and thanks.
Great video! I've had the unique opportunity to tour hundreds of manufacturing facilities. Foundries are really neat places. Hot, usually dirty from the sand everywhere, but pouring liquid metal is awesome.
How do you think they make the motor housing and other parts for your wonderful electric car? All of them use elaborate large die casting and extrusions for the motors.
This is a great video experience for me, since I used to deliver and pick up parts from the original Edelbrock company on Jefferson Blvd in LA --- and when they moved to Torrance I was able to visit as well. Keep making these fabulous videos - no one else is doing this --- THANKS
Hello from Australia. Your videos are so good, really love the technical stuff as in the Comp Cams episode and all the "How stuff is made" episodes . Learning so much. All these manufacturing facilities are full of old school knowledge and some of the old machines are still so reliable after 50 years. Currently driving a 1970 XW Falcon ute with a 351 Cleveland, 4 sp Toploader, 3:55 9 inch and a 2017 Mustang (auto) with a Harrop superchager. Myself and 2 mates went to the Woodward Dream Cruise in 2019, we also did the Gilmore collection, Stahl collection, Ford Piquette plant and a couple others on the way to the Lucas oils Nationals at Indianapolis, we were so impressed with the car scene in Americia. Thanks again.
Thoroughly enjoying these tours of the companies that i have bought parts from over the years. To know what went into the creation of what i bolted on is awesome! You two are killin' it with these videos! And hats off to these companies that open their doors and give you there time to get the information for these tours. Very cool Mitchell and Logan!
This is a long awaited tour video; thanks for this! Many years ago, I toured a Westinghouse (at the time, later purchased by Phillips Lighting) fluorescent light bulb plant in my hometown (Salina, KS). From the molten glass oven to where the glass tube was cut with cold compressed air, there was 1/4 mile of continuous glass tubing in that facility. The entire process from start to load out was amazingly automated...this was in mid 1970's. The plant closed several years ago due to LED lighting becoming mainstream.
Met Vic Edelbrock and his daughters in the food line at Road Atlanta years ago. At the time he was running three of Smokey Yunick's Camaros two of which Smokey had scaled and cut down as smaller versions. They were sitting in the Paddock and you could not tell until they put them side by side. "Old School is old, but we ain't all gone yet."
So I was board last summer thumbing through an Edelbrock catalog and ended up ordering everything they sell for a gen 1 5.7. the damn thing runs so good it's now my daily. The best four grand I have ever spent. No joke, if you have a chance to an Edelbrock catalog build DO IT!
Ahhh the joys of aluminum. That has to be the *_cleanest_* foundry I've ever seen! (I'm used to cast iron foundries for machine tool structures & they are such dark, dirty, dirty places.)
@@Stapleton42 and I'm an engineer that initially wanted to go into automotive so I *_love_* this kind of stuff & especially the technical stuff. Can't wait for the next Lake Speed/Jr video!
16:13ish. There is poster on the wall from the SOVREN vintage races in Kent, WA. I have that poster! Edelbrock used to bring some pretty nice cars to race at this event.
I worked in a foundry in Elkhart Indiana. We made firefighting equipment. It was really cool (pun intended). I had made a career move from the Machining department to the Maintenance dept. so I was able to see how our product was made from a solid ingot all the way to a finished part ready to ship.
This stuff is amazing man!! Ive watched like 90% of your content and it just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for doing what you do! Big props to edelbrock for allowing this and for keeping everything made in house in the USA. Not only is this great advertising for Edelbrock, but its amazing to watch and super educational. Props all around man!
I drive an Australian Ford Territory with the Barra engine. I really love these factory tours. I liked seeing the Holden manifolds . These tours gives you so much confidence that the parts are built to to highest standard by people who care and have fantastic knowledge.
Worked at Wescast ages ago. At the time they made cast iron exhaust manifolds for a variety of manufacturers. Was always fun to walk out into the plant, very loud though. They had 4 (5?) induction furnaces. That was the only area I was kinda nervous about at first as you could walk up just a few feed from the molten metal in the furnace. I recall the smell of the bonding agent used to make the cores and the machine work to maintain them. Fun times.
I worked at a foundry in the 70's and the processes are very similar. There is a HUGE difference in the cleanliness of the facility to what I worked in at MESCCO in the Twin Cities. This is Aluminum versus steel casting, but the basic process is unchanged. It's cool to see how technology allows better tracking of the fill process. Very impressed with the facilities orderliness.
I have to wonder if Edelbrock make OEM manifolds and other parts for the motor manufacturers like Ford, Chev, Toyota etc that are used in their assembly lines. To me it would make sense for that to be the case because the manufacturers would save a ton of money because then they would not need to set up "in house" foundries and machine shops and keep them state of the art - Edelbrock would be doing all of that stuff. Just a thought...
Love the videos of manufacturing facilities in operation. Lost foam casting (LFC) would be great material for your next casting video. Good job showcasing behind the scenes material in your videos. 👍🏼
I love your content man! Seeing and speaking with those people making great stuff must be really fulfilling. It sure looks interesting. Thanks very much
I've been to the Budweiser foundry a few times and they used to give out free samples. This is the first time viewing Edelbrock foundry, very interesting probably no free samples. Thanks for doing this.
My daily driver is a 2019 Tahoe furnished by the company I work for. My classics are 65 Thunderbird and 53 F100. Went to the local steel factory years ago. They use an arc furnace. Melts metal with a giant electrical arc. I have a Edelbrock Pro Flo 4 on my T-bird and I love it!
I love these type of videos! It's so awesome to see inner workings of a factory especially one like Edelbrock! Love the content love the channel love everything y'all do!
I love the variety man. Keep it up, I love seeing the subscriber count grow as well when I get a chance to get on here and catch up. Awesome to see you and Logan growing as well.
I’m in South Australia 🇦🇺. I’m a toolmaker. We had a company called Castalloy which cast all of Holdens aluminium components. We also cast the Harley Davison wheels. Unfortunately they closed down but I’ll never forget it.
When i was 19 I got a job in a machine shop with no experience and learned every old school machine in a year. Drill press, radial drill, bridgeport, horizontal/boring mill, etc. Then came the CNCs and that changed production to a new level. I learned Everything CNC in another year. We machined WELDGUN (copper beryllium alloy) castings for automotive production lines. The company eventually had a problem getting casting patterns made fast enough to keep up with CNC production by outside suppliers/pattern makers. They made them out of wood. Very technical shapes with hollow passages inside for cooling when in operation spot welding body parts on production lines. It would take 1-3 weeks to get a pattern from suppliers. We started making patterns in house with a CNC router. They trained me to 3D model/program/ machine via CNC router. We could make 2 or 3 complex patterns per day with that one machine. I got to see the foundry operation that used our patterns so that i could understand the process. It was a filthy place where everything was done by hand. I was so glad i didnt work at the foundry. It was in 1994 . I drew the 3D model from a blueprint in CAD as then apply CAM software to create the tool path for the machine. send it to the machine which carved the pattern out of a bondo like substance in 2 halves. putting the 2 halves together made the full pattern. It was x 5x5 CNC router that carved in 3D and shape or curve you wanted. It was a great learning experience for 5 years. CNC/CAD/CAM is awesome technology. We used "tombstones" on the horizontal CNC machines also. While 1 operation was running the operator would set up the next tombstone. As soon as the one finished it would rotate out and the next one would start. Amazing use of technology to minimize down time and boost production.
Hahaha, I like what you did there!! I did that kind of thing in a book report once. The teacher never commented on my "are you even reading this" sentence right in the middle of it. Of course I read the comments on your videos! I'm currently working on turning the first car that I bought over 20 years ago into an ARA rally car. It is a '76 Toyota Celica. All our other cars are GMs though. A few Camaros, a Corvette, and a few others but my favorite is our '73 Nova. Our main daily driver is a '96 Tahoe.
Cool stuff, I worked for a company in Redwood City, Ca that made injected molded parts for the nuclear power plants. The molds were over $2 million a piece if I remember correctly. So, I find this pretty fascinating.
Thank you fro your videos on the manufacturing process. Some home machinist can make parts, some can make them accurately but to make thousands of parts a day accurately is a different animal. I strive to take some of the techniques you show in your videos to make me more more precise as a hobyist. Thank you!
Wow really enjoyed your video , VERY interesting to see how the product for which I've been using since the 60s is manufactured and still made in America . Thank you for allowing us to see how it's made.🇺🇲 And Thank you for making these videos 😊
I worked for Doehler-Jarvis aluminum foundry in Greenville, Tn. We made Ford four cylinder heads and Buick intake manifolds using the sand core method. Brings back a lot of memories.
The subtitles are awesome and that warehouse reminded me of the 80's Speed Shops that were a chain store across the US, Can't remember the guys name but he sold everything including Edelbrock and Comp Cams among all things muscle car
As a steamfitter I worked in 3 foundries. The next time you see a manhole cover it will probably say NEENAH. Another was in Brillion and made varies parts fortrucking and farm implements. They shut down about 10 years ago. All I can say the ones I worked in were DIRTY and all the pipes had peaks of dirt on them unlike the glamorous Plat you were in. Great videos and unreal access. Car people are really into showing off their stuff.
MERRY CHRISTMAS. I JUST RAN ACCROS THIS VIDEO. I WORKED IN A CAST IRON FOUNDRY FOR 10 YEARS, DID EVERY JOB FROM MELTING IRON TO FINISHED PRODUCT. BROUGHT BACK GREAT MEMORYS. AS FOR CARS I HAVE......454 POWERED 1970 PRO STREET MONTE CARLO AND A 2008 4WD CHEVY AVALANCHE WITH EDELBROCK E FORCE SUPERCHARGER. YA JUST GOT A NEW SUBSCRIBER.
I used to be a CNC machinist at Caterpillar tractor in Illinois before I retired. For several months I work in heat treat at caterpillar and I cannot imagine the heat that comes off of track links for those big tractors. The heat is unbelievable
Answering - 1956 Ford f100 with 390 FE and yes it has an Edelbrock RPM 7105 intake. Maybe I'm mistaken but believe they were making the 7105 on the Oswego speedway machine when talking about the tombstone setup. Very cool 😎
I like seeing everything from materials in to finished product ready to ship and the guys with what used to be white shop coats designing it and showing the shop machinist how to make it. Basically everything you guys have done the only place I have been is Brodix
I just moved down the street from the foundry and drive by it every day. I have been wondering what goes on there for about 2 years now. Really cool to see
I read all the comments in your videos. I'm loving these factory tours, you and Logan are doing an amazing job. I drive a '97 K2500 Silverado, and have a couple of projects as well, '90 S10 Tahoe and a '94 Civic Ex
I always try to read the comments in any video that's interesting. It's a good way to find out valuable information. I drive a '07 Harley Davidson F150 Super Crew Cab.
Love this stuff in this video! You & Logan are sure scoring the cool places to shoot a video, and you know I appreciate it and you both! Keep up the tech items, and you know I'm there with you all as you produce these videos for us all to enjoy!
very cool. I don't think you can appreciate what goes on in a foundry till you have been in one. I worked at Stahl specialty in Kingsville MO for 9 years. It is the closest thing to hell on earth. we didn't have robots to pour the metal, we had to hand ladle our parts. We cast the oil pan, timing gear cover and flywheel housings for cat and detroit among other things. Awesome thing to be proud of, but took years off my life for sure. Thanks for showing how things are made that people don't normally get to see.
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Oh that's awesome man, ill be there for sure
Fyi.. edlbrock will soon be building Holley style carberator
Ask those goofballs why they haven’t built any Oldsmobile big block Performer RPM air gap intakes in a year. I ordered one and paid for it with Summit racing in May! got my performer rpm aluminum heads two weeks later but still waiting on my intake manifold and they’re holding up my entire engine build!!
@@nunyabiz8708 They already are. It's been on the shelf for about a month!!
Suggestion: get a lapel microphone for your interviewees. I was only catching about 50% of what he said on the foundry floor.
Shoot Edelbrock has burned a spot in my heart. I grew up in. Speed shop. As a kid I would handle all the stock and their manifolds always looked nicer then the others. I remember buying my first one for my own car still to this day.
A big thanks to you two and Edelbrock for allowing us all the see the process. So interesting to learn.
Of course I read your comments Mitchell! I drive a white '07 LBZ CCSB. Man, y'all just keep killing it with your content! Tours that are not only cool as hell, but take us to places that have so much heritage and where most folks probably never get the chance to see. Thanks for what you guys do! LOVE IT!!
Thank you so much Mike!
I work at a foundry in Wisconsin. It's different than sand casting, we do hollow molds that go through a different process than sand. Pretty neat to watch honestly.
Some of our parts are very intricate. The parts start out as a wax pattern, that pattern gets melted out of a shell that is dipped in a multitude of different elements to hold its shape, and dries into a hollow cavity. Molten steel is then poured into the molds. Molds cool, outer shell material is removed.
Lost wax... We have Precision Cast Parts that does that process in my city... mostly with really exotic metals for aircraft jet engine internals
3d printing has changed casting I’d assume..how do you see the billet manufacturing impacting casting products?
Neenah?
Jewelry is made similarly. Very interesting process
Investment Castings.
I'm an architect and some years ago I did some work for Atlas Foundry in Tacoma WA. They were making parts for nuclear sub reactors at the time and had an x-ray room for testing the parts that was definitely scary. Put out enough x-rays to kill you if you ever got caught inside. They had tons of safety precautions of course.
In 35 to 40 years, and 100's if not 1000's of Edelbrock products, NEVER ONCE have I been not happy. Solid products. always has been, the employees there clearly love their craftsmanship and know their skill sets. I can remember being about 16 years old and needed a new intake, as the factory unit corroded through where the neck is and Edelbrock is the only name I knew of, so, I got one. Please note, a tunnel ram or long runner intake sure looked cool, so I ordered one of those, and completely forgot to think about, I need to now cut a hole in the hood, LOL.. My dad was just shaking his head. I remember my dad saying, "Son, once you go this route, there is no turning back.. Not realizing, he wasn't just simply talking about cutting a hole in my hood, it was the newly found addiction to HP.. My first after market part and actually got to see and feel the improvements in HP. For a silly kid, I was hooked on HP ever since.
Hi, this is totally off-topic here, but because there's just so many replies to your recent comment under that @d4a video, this is the only way I could think of to actually contact you. Is there any way we could talk without the overzealous YT automoderation getting in the way?
@@mskiptr I don't see why not. I must say, I hope you are understanding all my efforts are just that, while noting, I am not an expert at anything, but more over, I don't don't fear trying new things, either in efforts to just see if I can do them, or out of curiosity, that is direct results of something I had already done or due to future plans and education must take place before I get to the next stage of a problem or project. But sure, I don't mind speaking to you personally.
@@drubradley8821 Thanks! And btw, it's not like I "have this awesome idea that will definitely fix all the issues with these engines" or "have come up with the ultimate solution to the lubrication problem". Actually, I don't really want to talk about making the engine work. I'm no mechanical engineer. The topic I have in mind is more about YT instead.
So could you write to me? My address is just
a[at]b.c where a is piotr, b is maslowski and c is xyz
Oh well. It took quite some time to get this to stick. Sorry for any notifications that might've generated.
@@mskiptr I will try to crack this code in the morning and send a confirmation email, but, I don't not see suffix host directive, like Yahoo, Google, Hotmail, etc .
Led a team of foundry maintenance engineers for years. Cast iron and aluminum foundries. Damn hot and noisy, but awesome band of foundry workers. Great content once again. Keep it going.
Thank you Andrew we will!!
Thanks for sharing & educating people with how Edelbrock makes our Intake Manifolds!
My father worked in a foundry (Dodge Steel) in the 1950s. He told me that setting up the pour for a new pattern was part science and part art back then. Couldn't be taught in school, it had to be learned from an experienced person. That computer modeling software is very cool!
When the company decided that every employee above a certain level had to have a college degree the person that set up the pours got fired. Of course that man was almost instantly hired by another foundry. My dad always felt that was the beginning of the end for Dodge Steel.
By the way, love the channel. Keep on talking to the old guys! When they pass on it would be a shame to lose what they knew.
Awesome video guys would have never known just how large Edelbrock manufacturing has become. It is real interesting to learn about the behind the scenes stuff that goes into the product. Thank you!
Thanks Scott!
Great video, thanks for sharing! I designed and started up the two furnaces used to make the molten aluminum in this foundry! Love seeing them still making castings!
That’s awesome
Thanks for taking us where we never thaught posable . I am blown away by all the processes that happen behind the scenes at Edelbrock . What a vast organization , and proudly American!!!!. I'm totally crushed by your video . many thanks..Stu from Canada...................................
You and Logan are doing an awesome job. Thanks for preserving Nascar history.
Our pleasure!
Awesome tour guys! I worked as a pattern maker for 30 years and I always enjoyed visiting the various foundries and seeing the tooling I produced being used. We made a ton of the red plastic core boxes (cold process) as well as hot boxes and some permanent mold tooling. It's great to see Edelbrock truly manufacturing in the USA, not just assembling parts sourced from around the globe.
The only foundry I’ve been in, two or three of them, are bronze foundries. Sculptures. And how they go from a 12” tall statue to a 25’ tall one blows my mind. This place would be true cad guy heaven and just, in awe.
Thanks for another very informative, fun, factory tour. Edelbrock is one of the first, & foremost original companies to manufacture after market components as direct bolt on replacements available to not only racing teams, but to anyone whom wanted to improve performance of their own vehicles.
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Thanks Jeffrey!
I worked in an aluminium foundry for 30 years - the company pioneered the sand moulding and we also had a sand foundry as we had a lot of castings that needed sand moulds.
I love these videos ! I'm 70 and i was fortunate to be a plant engineer for 25 years at an upstate NY. cutlery co. We made quality stamped knives and all types of cutting blades. we performed all the processes in one plant. We stamped stainless steel, did heat treatment , Grinding , polishing , edge grinding , made and assembled handles. Some of the specialty machine were engineered and made in our own machine shop. Just like your video subjects say, it is very gratifying to see a product go from start to finish. In the 70's and 80's we had many companies that did just that! Now i drive by these rundown buildings that use to house Mfg. companies of all sorts, and i feel sorry that workers don't have the opportunity to be a part of a team that took pride in working to produce a quality product that could consumers could rely on ! As you might imagine I'm a car guy , Corvette ! really any thing with a motor! I always tow a trailer ! you just never know what you might want to bring home!!!
Thanks man. It is sad to see American manufacturing go away. I feel like it’ll come back in my lifetime
1986 ford mustang I always read them I get more out of the video reading them thank u
Vic Edelbrock has certainly built an empire over the years from his humble start in racing.
For what it's worth I do read the captions even though I don't own a car. I just enjoy learning about technology.
Thats even cooler! If you ever do have one you will be well equipped lol
My dad was a molder, he made molds mostly for brass and aluminum. I kinda grew up in a foundry even though dad did everything he could to prevent me from going into foundy work because of the risk and danger. I ended up as a career Marine...much safer! LOL I drive a 2010 Impala SS with a Whipple supercharger and a 100hp shot of NO2.
These and the racing history videos are always worth watching. Thanks for taking the time to make these! Wearing my SAW hat now!
Another amazing video! It's really nice to see something still made in America. Pretty cool seeing the process from ingot to finished product. That black plasma coating looks sick! Suck it Cole
One of the most impressive videos showing the back ground and manufacturing of items that heaps of people use everyday, personally I have visited Harrop Engineering in Melbourne, I loved the time there just walking around asking questions to the workers mind blowing, I had done work in other foundries in South Australia in the 1990s both Aluminum and Iron.
Keep up the great work you two.
The casting was one of my favourite parts of school. We were taught this when I was about 12 years old. From start to finish. What a great experience that was. ✌️🇺🇲✌️🇬🇧
......where do you live that they teach that to 12 year Olds?
Probably the coolest thing ive ever seen as far as foundrys is the Ferrrari factory video tour, you cant beleive the engineering and thought that they put into each car, every part of their cars are made in their own factory, every block, head, valve, intake, crankshaft, timing set, etc is forged or cast at their own facility nothing is farmed out ! They even have special alloy formulas for each part that they also formulate and use in all the parts including the bodies and space frames
Thanks man!!
I have worked as a Union Millwright in the steel mills around northwest Indiana. Even after 26 years, it is still amazing! Thank you for your videos!!!
thanks man!!
My dad was a wood pattern maker back in the late 40's to the late 70's. Served his apprenticeship at Ford Motor Company, and later went to the job shops to make more money. Back then he made tons of money with overtime etc.. They ended up getting rid of most of the pattern makers in the Detroit area, but he had a great career. I read the comments and I drive a Corvette
Wow man that’s awesome
One of my favorite jobs was a mold maker at a foundry. We used a mix of reclaimed sand, new sand and various chemicals as the binder. Messy, hot, cold and dangerous. I loved every day, till I started driving. The science behind this investment type casting is pretty amazing. Great content as usual, keep up the great work.
Thanks man!!
I worked for Gerdau steel in Fort Smith Arkansas as a temp to hire on the Q.C. program. I worked right next to the massive cooling bed. It looked like half a football fields worth of red hot steel rods that made so much heat you couldn't see clearly across it. Literally the hardest job I ever did...I didn't stick it out. I couldn't imagine leaving work every day with acute swamp ass so bad it's hard to make the half-mile walk to the lot.
I was the owner of the company that transported the furnaces and all the machinery used in setting up this foundry. FYI they don't just make Edelbrock parts. They produce castings for whoever so as to maximize productivity and utilization. This was one of Edelbrock" better ideas.
That is true however we had to avoid the other things in the video since those parts typically have NDAs attached to them
This reminded me of my high school days. I was very lucky to be able to do different things to learn about how to make things, as I was learning about those type of processes. It was how I learned my love for building things, and the world of being a mechanic back in the very early 70’s. I actually made a sand mold, and made an aluminum casting of a fish. Did the whole process by hand. Thanks for the memories.
Thats awesome Steve we are glad to have you here!
I drive a 2022 BRONCO OUTER BANKS 2dr. The guy giving you the tour is a class act, A good representative for the company.
I worked for a heavy equipment and engine maker in IL in various roles: CNC, assembly and in their iron casting foundry. I have an Edelbrock Airgap intake on my 360 Lil Red Express, so neat to seeing Edelbrock’s aluminum foundry in operation. The foundry I worked in once made NASCAR engine blocks for Pontiac and Dodge.
Their foundry was way cleaner than the foundry I worked in for 6 years. We poured a huge amount of iron every year. I shook out hundreds of thousands of heads and engine blocks there, made cores, ran heat treat ovens, set cores, finned parts, ran Manmates too in the Shake Out areas. Now I’m retired.
That’s awesome. What a job that must have been
I can't hardly explain how much SAW is just killing it!
Thanks Mitchell you da man
Never seen the inside of a foundry in this much detail. So awesome
Thanks for the content. There was a lot of speculation about the Edelbrock facilities 2 years ago. Now we know what's up. 1963 Mercury Comet hardtop, stroker SBF w/ Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold 👍
I work at a machine shop. KSB.. We are the 4th biggest pumo manufacturer in the world.. I work at standard alloys division in Port Arthur TX and we have a foundry that casts all our parts. I was supposed to have a tour of the foundry when I was hired but covid restrictions made it where I couldn't. I have been at this shop for 2 years now and it's pretty cool that we make all our parts from start to finish. I'm a cnc machinist and programmer. This was a really cool video. I'm also a car guy... My dad was a master mechanic and always had race cars and I was a mechanic also for a few years. Just moved to machining and liked it alot more... I still have a turbo foxbody though and wrench on that all the time.
I've never been in a foundry, but I've been in some really large automotive assembly plants (Nissan in Tennessee and Toyota in Indiana). Honestly though, the one that impressed me the most was the MTD lawn mower manufacturing facility in Tennessee, mainly because I didn't understand how big of a business selling lawnmowers was until I went into that gigantic factory.
I met Vic and Tammy many years ago, super nice folks and Vic had some cool stories to tell
Seems like you always ask If we watched the whole episode. I personally have finished every one I've started, and thats most all you've posted. It's like you custom made this channel for me.Keep up the good work, and thanks.
We love to hear that Bill!! Thank you for being here
Great video! I've had the unique opportunity to tour hundreds of manufacturing facilities. Foundries are really neat places. Hot, usually dirty from the sand everywhere, but pouring liquid metal is awesome.
Absolutely!
I think this was Mitchell's favorite tour!! I don't think I've seen him reach level 11 on the geek-out meter before! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can’t imagine what the heat feels like. This I’m sure is an interesting tour to be a part of.
My wife and I have made the move to an EV6 KIA.
How do you think they make the motor housing and other parts for your wonderful electric car?
All of them use elaborate large die casting and extrusions for the motors.
Wow, I drag raced with Mark Campbell here in Edmonton Alberta Canada back in the day. His Dad owned a highly regarded speed shop here in Edmonton.
Thats awesome lol. I thought he had a bit of a Canadian accent!
This is a great video experience for me, since I used to deliver and pick up parts from the original Edelbrock company on Jefferson Blvd in LA --- and when they moved to Torrance I was able to visit as well. Keep making these fabulous videos - no one else is doing this --- THANKS
Hello from Australia. Your videos are so good, really love the technical stuff as in the Comp Cams episode and all the "How stuff is made" episodes . Learning so much. All these manufacturing facilities are full of old school knowledge and some of the old machines are still so reliable after 50 years. Currently driving a 1970 XW Falcon ute with a 351 Cleveland, 4 sp Toploader, 3:55 9 inch and a 2017 Mustang (auto) with a Harrop superchager. Myself and 2 mates went to the Woodward Dream Cruise in 2019, we also did the Gilmore collection, Stahl collection, Ford Piquette plant and a couple others on the way to the Lucas oils Nationals at Indianapolis, we were so impressed with the car scene in Americia.
Thanks again.
Thoroughly enjoying these tours of the companies that i have bought parts from over the years. To know what went into the creation of what i bolted on is awesome! You two are killin' it with these videos! And hats off to these companies that open their doors and give you there time to get the information for these tours. Very cool Mitchell and Logan!
This is a long awaited tour video; thanks for this! Many years ago, I toured a Westinghouse (at the time, later purchased by Phillips Lighting) fluorescent light bulb plant in my hometown (Salina, KS). From the molten glass oven to where the glass tube was cut with cold compressed air, there was 1/4 mile of continuous glass tubing in that facility. The entire process from start to load out was amazingly automated...this was in mid 1970's. The plant closed several years ago due to LED lighting becoming mainstream.
Smart guys who know what they’re doing. That’s the result of careful selection of new employees.
2013 Mini Cooper Clubman. Thanks for taking time to come out to our Pretty little Farm town. Wish I knew you were out here. Anyhow, laaaater
Met Vic Edelbrock and his daughters in the food line at Road Atlanta years ago. At the time he was running three of Smokey Yunick's Camaros two of which Smokey had scaled and cut down as smaller versions. They were sitting in the Paddock and you could not tell until they put them side by side. "Old School is old, but we ain't all gone yet."
So I was board last summer thumbing through an Edelbrock catalog and ended up ordering everything they sell for a gen 1 5.7. the damn thing runs so good it's now my daily. The best four grand I have ever spent. No joke, if you have a chance to an Edelbrock catalog build DO IT!
Ahhh the joys of aluminum.
That has to be the *_cleanest_* foundry I've ever seen! (I'm used to cast iron foundries for machine tool structures & they are such dark, dirty, dirty places.)
For real!!
@@Stapleton42 and I'm an engineer that initially wanted to go into automotive so I *_love_* this kind of stuff & especially the technical stuff.
Can't wait for the next Lake Speed/Jr video!
16:13ish. There is poster on the wall from the SOVREN vintage races in Kent, WA. I have that poster! Edelbrock used to bring some pretty nice cars to race at this event.
Thanks for helping me pass the time at work Stapleton and Logan 👍. U guys always bring us some amazing content
Thanks for being here Jared!
I worked in a foundry in Elkhart Indiana. We made firefighting equipment. It was really cool (pun intended). I had made a career move from the Machining department to the Maintenance dept. so I was able to see how our product was made from a solid ingot all the way to a finished part ready to ship.
Never been to a foundry but the machine shop is like one I worked in for a well known air compressor company
This stuff is amazing man!! Ive watched like 90% of your content and it just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for doing what you do!
Big props to edelbrock for allowing this and for keeping everything made in house in the USA.
Not only is this great advertising for Edelbrock, but its amazing to watch and super educational. Props all around man!
I drive an Australian Ford Territory with the Barra engine. I really love these factory tours. I liked seeing the Holden manifolds . These tours gives you so much confidence that the parts are built to to highest standard by people who care and have fantastic knowledge.
Thanks Stefan!
Great content. Makes an intake seem pretty cheap when you see how much work goes into it
Worked at Wescast ages ago. At the time they made cast iron exhaust manifolds for a variety of manufacturers. Was always fun to walk out into the plant, very loud though. They had 4 (5?) induction furnaces. That was the only area I was kinda nervous about at first as you could walk up just a few feed from the molten metal in the furnace. I recall the smell of the bonding agent used to make the cores and the machine work to maintain them. Fun times.
I worked at a foundry in the 70's and the processes are very similar. There is a HUGE difference in the cleanliness of the facility to what I worked in at MESCCO in the Twin Cities. This is Aluminum versus steel casting, but the basic process is unchanged. It's cool to see how technology allows better tracking of the fill process. Very impressed with the facilities orderliness.
I have to wonder if Edelbrock make OEM manifolds and other parts for the motor manufacturers like Ford, Chev, Toyota etc that are used in their assembly lines.
To me it would make sense for that to be the case because the manufacturers would save a ton of money because then they would not need to set up "in house" foundries and machine shops and keep them state of the art - Edelbrock would be doing all of that stuff.
Just a thought...
Edelbrock does OEM stuff for some places yes. They even do GM performance parts stuff too
Love the videos of manufacturing facilities in operation. Lost foam casting (LFC) would be great material for your next casting video. Good job showcasing behind the scenes material in your videos. 👍🏼
That's the cleanest foundry I've ever seen. All the ones I've been in stink, are dirty, and atleast 100 degrees all the time
THANX FOR THE TOUR!!
Our pleasure!
I love your content man! Seeing and speaking with those people making great stuff must be really fulfilling. It sure looks interesting. Thanks very much
I've been to the Budweiser foundry a few times and they used to give out free samples. This is the first time viewing Edelbrock foundry, very interesting probably no free samples. Thanks for doing this.
We have two large foundrys at work, doing sand casting with cast iron. Most processes look similar, just at a much larger scale in our foundrys.
My daily driver is a 2019 Tahoe furnished by the company I work for. My classics are 65 Thunderbird and 53 F100. Went to the local steel factory years ago. They use an arc furnace. Melts metal with a giant electrical arc. I have a Edelbrock Pro Flo 4 on my T-bird and I love it!
I love these type of videos! It's so awesome to see inner workings of a factory especially one like Edelbrock! Love the content love the channel love everything y'all do!
Same Jonathan thank you for being here with us for it!
@@Stapleton42 Thank you!
I love the variety man. Keep it up, I love seeing the subscriber count grow as well when I get a chance to get on here and catch up. Awesome to see you and Logan growing as well.
I appreciate it!
I’m in South Australia 🇦🇺. I’m a toolmaker. We had a company called Castalloy which cast all of Holdens aluminium components. We also cast the Harley Davison wheels. Unfortunately they closed down but I’ll never forget it.
When i was 19 I got a job in a machine shop with no experience and learned every old school machine in a year. Drill press, radial drill, bridgeport, horizontal/boring mill, etc. Then came the CNCs and that changed production to a new level. I learned Everything CNC in another year. We machined WELDGUN (copper beryllium alloy) castings for automotive production lines. The company eventually had a problem getting casting patterns made fast enough to keep up with CNC production by outside suppliers/pattern makers. They made them out of wood. Very technical shapes with hollow passages inside for cooling when in operation spot welding body parts on production lines. It would take 1-3 weeks to get a pattern from suppliers. We started making patterns in house with a CNC router. They trained me to 3D model/program/ machine via CNC router. We could make 2 or 3 complex patterns per day with that one machine. I got to see the foundry operation that used our patterns so that i could understand the process. It was a filthy place where everything was done by hand. I was so glad i didnt work at the foundry. It was in 1994 . I drew the 3D model from a blueprint in CAD as then apply CAM software to create the tool path for the machine. send it to the machine which carved the pattern out of a bondo like substance in 2 halves. putting the 2 halves together made the full pattern. It was x 5x5 CNC router that carved in 3D and shape or curve you wanted. It was a great learning experience for 5 years. CNC/CAD/CAM is awesome technology. We used "tombstones" on the horizontal CNC machines also. While 1 operation was running the operator would set up the next tombstone. As soon as the one finished it would rotate out and the next one would start. Amazing use of technology to minimize down time and boost production.
Hahaha, I like what you did there!! I did that kind of thing in a book report once. The teacher never commented on my "are you even reading this" sentence right in the middle of it. Of course I read the comments on your videos! I'm currently working on turning the first car that I bought over 20 years ago into an ARA rally car. It is a '76 Toyota Celica. All our other cars are GMs though. A few Camaros, a Corvette, and a few others but my favorite is our '73 Nova. Our main daily driver is a '96 Tahoe.
Cool stuff, I worked for a company in Redwood City, Ca that made injected molded parts for the nuclear power plants. The molds were over $2 million a piece if I remember correctly. So, I find this pretty fascinating.
Of course I watched the whole thing! Loved the Holden reference 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Thanks again for a great see through. Cheers guys!
Thank you fro your videos on the manufacturing process. Some home machinist can make parts, some can make them accurately but to make thousands of parts a day accurately is a different animal. I strive to take some of the techniques you show in your videos to make me more more precise as a hobyist. Thank you!
Eddy from Myrtle Beach SC again. another great one guys. Loved it. Take care and keep em coming.
I live in Memphis I wonder what the story is about why the raceway sticker at 30:30??
Wow really enjoyed your video , VERY interesting to see how the product for which I've been using since the 60s is manufactured and still made in America . Thank you for allowing us to see how it's made.🇺🇲 And Thank you for making these videos 😊
I worked for Doehler-Jarvis aluminum foundry in Greenville, Tn. We made Ford four cylinder heads and Buick intake manifolds using the sand core method. Brings back a lot of memories.
If Tony Stewart worked for Edelbrock, he'd be Mark Campbell....lol. Still enjoying watching this! Great video so far. :)
The subtitles are awesome and that warehouse reminded me of the 80's Speed Shops that were a chain store across the US,
Can't remember the guys name but he sold everything including Edelbrock and Comp Cams among all things muscle car
As a steamfitter I worked in 3 foundries. The next time you see a manhole cover it will probably say NEENAH. Another was in Brillion and made varies parts fortrucking and farm implements. They shut down about 10 years ago. All I can say the ones I worked in were DIRTY and all the pipes had peaks of dirt on them unlike the glamorous Plat you were in. Great videos and unreal access. Car people are really into showing off their stuff.
Man thats wild!
MERRY CHRISTMAS. I JUST RAN ACCROS THIS VIDEO. I WORKED IN A CAST IRON FOUNDRY FOR 10 YEARS, DID EVERY JOB FROM MELTING IRON TO FINISHED PRODUCT. BROUGHT BACK GREAT MEMORYS. AS FOR CARS I HAVE......454 POWERED 1970 PRO STREET MONTE CARLO AND A 2008 4WD CHEVY AVALANCHE WITH EDELBROCK E FORCE SUPERCHARGER. YA JUST GOT A NEW SUBSCRIBER.
I used to be a CNC machinist at Caterpillar tractor in Illinois before I retired. For several months I work in heat treat at caterpillar and I cannot imagine the heat that comes off of track links for those big tractors. The heat is unbelievable
Answering - 1956 Ford f100 with 390 FE and yes it has an Edelbrock RPM 7105 intake. Maybe I'm mistaken but believe they were making the 7105 on the Oswego speedway machine when talking about the tombstone setup. Very cool 😎
I like seeing everything from materials in to finished product ready to ship and the guys with what used to be white shop coats designing it and showing the shop machinist how to make it. Basically everything you guys have done the only place I have been is Brodix
I just moved down the street from the foundry and drive by it every day. I have been wondering what goes on there for about 2 years now. Really cool to see
Heck yeah!
A 2016 Ford F150 regular cab short bed truck. 👍 Yeah i love all the technical behind the scenes info.👊
I read all the comments in your videos. I'm loving these factory tours, you and Logan are doing an amazing job. I drive a '97 K2500 Silverado, and have a couple of projects as well, '90 S10 Tahoe and a '94 Civic Ex
Thanks man! The comments are usually pretty entertaining lol
I always try to read the comments in any video that's interesting. It's a good way to find out valuable information. I drive a '07 Harley Davidson F150 Super Crew Cab.
Great point!
Love this stuff in this video! You & Logan are sure scoring the cool places to shoot a video, and you know I appreciate it and you both! Keep up the tech items, and you know I'm there with you all as you produce these videos for us all to enjoy!
What an incredible facility. Great video! Subbed 😊
very cool. I don't think you can appreciate what goes on in a foundry till you have been in one. I worked at Stahl specialty in Kingsville MO for 9 years. It is the closest thing to hell on earth. we didn't have robots to pour the metal, we had to hand ladle our parts. We cast the oil pan, timing gear cover and flywheel housings for cat and detroit among other things. Awesome thing to be proud of, but took years off my life for sure. Thanks for showing how things are made that people don't normally get to see.