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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:59 pm 
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:21 pm 
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WOW.... there's some stuff you don't see every day! :shock:

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:56 am 
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The trouble with this really rare prototype stuff I suppose, is that they're so rare you just can't find a worthy use for them....

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:53 am 
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Mick wrote:
The trouble with this really rare prototype stuff I suppose, is that they're so rare you just can't find a worthy use for them....


Ist it possible to scan them and whack the pattern ? into a cnc machime " no idea how those machines work :-) " so possibly a small buisiness oppotunity to reproduce them ? ....

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:39 am 
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Not hard to CNC an outer block, the cores for the coolant gallery are always the challenge however which means you either get a straight bore through the metal without hugging the critical areas where you need the coolant to be the most, or you cast a block and then machine it to shape.

There are nice examples of clever design and expensive machines however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 1:33 pm 
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Wow!!! :shock: too bad it's 998

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Mick wrote:
Not hard to CNC an outer block, the cores for the coolant gallery are always the challenge however which means you either get a straight bore through the metal without hugging the critical areas where you need the coolant to be the most, or you cast a block and then machine it to shape.

There are nice examples of clever design and expensive machines however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o


That video is strangely mesmerising ....l love the shiny :-)

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