can someone tell me the cost in one vs the other? what about quality of castings,as well as how the surface texture comes out? kelly,i know you are doing the lost foam so your castings look great.

Initially, the sand printed molds were pretty coarse because of print layer thickness. I understand some will allow you to specify finer print layers for a price. Prices have come down with more available sources now. You basically pay one time processing and foundry fees and then pay by the cubic inch of mold volume.

Assuming you have a decent CAD model, it should be fairly easy to get a quote.

I lost foam cast because I can control all processes and do so completely under the roof of my modest shop. I do detail the foam patterns for better finish and appearance. I'd say my finish is better than then the average printed mold and casting quality on par with other sand casting processes since I use virgin ingot and have developed my molten metal management processes over the years, but it's taken effort on the latter, whereas it should be second nature to an established foundry.

Being retired and casting as a hobby endeavor, I'm fairly selective about what I take on, mainly within the Ford and Inline carb realm, but freely recommend 3D sand printing to those inquiries that I pass on.

Being YouTube discoverable, I get a lot of people that come to me with nothing more than an idea for a particular engine combination. That's basically a little more than a hand full of smoke because all the dimensional interface, reverse engineering, modeling, and programming are the majority of the work required before a casting is born......then there is the finish machining....


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Kelly



 

.....The best way to remedy the situation will be to find another 428 block. A block that is already 40 or 30 would be preferred. It would be silly to take a standard bore block out to 45 just to accommodate the extra set of pistons.  thanks, Mark

I guess one of the ways to gauge whether someone is a real FE guy is when his solution to discovering an extra set of pistons is building another engine instead of selling the pistons. 

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Kelly

That was great. Thanks for posting.

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Kelly

Got 3 B429 Inline Carb lids on the go at the moment.....

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Kelly

Great job keeping these alive Kelly!

Thanks Drew. You certainly do your fair share keeping old carbs alive.

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Kelly

One for the home team......an IR dual Inline system based upon Jay's adapter.

https://youtu.be/LyLm5HlmKeI?si=WZ1g5atTDA2e2Yfz

I've added other Ford Inline systems too and created a YT channel dedicated to the Inline Carb.

https://www.youtube.com/@InlineCarb

They can also be viewed here:

https://inlinecarb.com/parts--systems-for-sale.html

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Kelly

....The pictures below show the finished carbs.  I was very pleased with the results, and have plans to run a pair on a tunnel port engine (after I design an intake and get it cast), and also a pair on an SOHC, where I will have to fabricate an intake.  Just from an eye candy perspective they are very cool, and I am hoping that I can get them to run reasonably well on a nice street engine.  We will see...

Thanks Jay, glad you're happy with them. It was great to meet you. Hope you come up with a good project for them and happy to help when that time comes.

The other recent forum thread Jay mentioned is here.....and there is discussion related to some of the questions above.

https://fepower.net/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=12632.0

The old Ford literature says they have shared parts with the 2100, which is true, just not many. The accelerator pump diaphragms, umbrella check valves, springs, main metering valves and seats, jets and bleeds.....although the sizes of the latter two are not the same. The floats are supposed to be the same but none of the ones in 2100 rebuild kits fit. Other parts are similar but not interchangeable.

As far as reproducing them, I have.....from the ground up as referenced at the end of the previous thread linked above. Many owners of these carbs are collectors and no matter how perfect the reproduction, it's still a reproduction. I tend to gravitate towards those who would like to run them. Occasionally discussion of a 2brl even larger than half the B-carb comes up for large displacement IR engines, but no one was ever committed enough to follow through. It's a small market and if the motivation for doing so was money, I think you'd find it to be very unrewarding. There's also the matter of needing a custom intake to use them, thus my hobby endeavors making them.

So why do I? It's like the old joke, why does a dog.....? -Because I can and it feels good.

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Kelly