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Over the last few months, we have received several requests about SBC block castings. It seems there is rising demand, limited availability and one size does not fit all. Tooling costs are often prohibitive when production volumes are small, when you add in design variations like deck height, cam height, filter housing and lifter bore geometry the tooling costs go up and the number of parts to amortize the tooling cost goes down. The lack of CAD data also leads to frustration and obstacles, some teams and resellers have a block or two lying around that can be reverse engineered and some have the in-house capability to model exactly what they want but it all adds up to everybody pulling in the same direction independently.

We can resolve the tooling issues for one offs and very low volumes by 3D printing molds and cores, the numbers add up until demand justifies the tooling investment and by choosing the right foundry partners and good engineering, we can keep tooling costs very reasonable. To resolve the next piece of the puzzle we are designing a 3D model that contains all the critical features that never change, once we have the base model complete, we can modify deck height, camshaft center line, oiling etc. very quickly and be printing cores or cutting tools in a matter of days.