Turning cubic inches into horsepower

Anonymous

American Machinist

07-01-2001

Turning cubic inches into horsepower

Byline: Anonymous
Volume: 145
Number: 7
ISSN: 10417958
Publication Date: 07-01-2001
Page: 93
Type: Periodical
Language: English

For a drag racer, the challenge is to direction a car at 300 mph while driving down a 1/4mile strip. The challenge is just as great for Keith Black Racing Engines Inc., southerly Gate, Calif. There, A-356T-6 aluminum-- alloy castings are machined into $60000 racing engines.

Most of the machining at Keith Black is done upon a Mitsui Seiki model HU63A horizontal machining center The machining