We dig plant tours around here. I don’t know why, but ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved touring everything from candy factories to tractor plants, and everything in between. I’ve been to my fair share of GM assembly lines, but this is one I have never visited and would really like to. Thankfully the guys at Speed Academy did take the tour and brought cameras along with them. Big thanks to BangShifter Phil Secan for sending us the tip on this one. It’s worth watching.
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This video is AWESOME!!
Ultra Dull. Kinda sad too. The few people looked barely necessary. No wonder cars are so expensive. Made me really not want to buy a new car ever again. It’s ironic that that the government bailout through tax payer dollars was used to eliminate jobs for tax payers.
I work at this plant, as an Electrician, and I transferred from the plant that built the Gen 3 & Gen 4, in Michigan. You’d be surprised how many people you don’t see in the video. The people are constantly checking tolerences, making machine adjustments, tool changes, etc, while there’s quite a few more people involved in the actual assembly of this engine than the previous generations. As far as the machining, that’s been very machine oriented for years, you can’t hold tolerences of +/- 5 microns without extremely tight machinery.
Wbere are the castings made? I worked at the defiance plant. Retired now. Thanks.
hey Dick, we get our blocks from defiance and nemac. It takes two plants to keep up with the demand.
Happy retirement !
Noticed when the were honing the cylinders I did not see any torque plates attached. Is this process not done on Chevy engines?
They mentioned the cast and polished crank but no mention of ANY forged parts. Aren’t there any – especially in a C-Charged engine??