One of the neatest things I’ve done involved doing some project managment work for a foundry in Arizona. It was part of a business class and the goal was to focus on the tasks associated with putting a company in the black financially, but part of that work involved touring around a foundry. If you’ve never done this, you should. Foundry work is a combination of artwork in sculpture and the brutality of fire and flames melting metal so that it can become something more than just the sum of it’s materials. You’re used to seeing the pretty part as it comes out of the box that arrived on your doorstep. That’s nice, for sure, but haven’t you ever wanted to see how the heads, the intakes, the whatever it was came to be?
Recently Hoonigan got to tour Edelbrock’s Permanent Mold Foundry as part of their research into some parts that are going onto a project Camaro that they were working on just before the world went weird in 2020. Seeing their dry-sand molding process and their heat-treatment system as well. So from the raw sand that gets turned into mold negatives, to the 1400-ish degree molten aluminum that is poured, to the treatment that strengthens and treats the products, it’s all here, from root materials to rough-cast products that are ready to be sent to a machine shop for final work. This isn’t glamorous, but this is badass and is Genesis for the speed parts that Edelbrock build for your dream machines.
Great Video. Thank you Edelbrock for allowing your facility to be filmed.