#foam casting

Casting a One-Off Aluminum Ford V-8 Intake Manifold at Home Requires Plenty of Styrofoam and Patience – Daniel Strohl @Hemmings

All those old film reels the automakers used to put out, showing the process of carving perfect mahogany patterns then pouring molten metals into massive sand molds to cast engine blocks and the like, make the process seem like something only somebody with billions of dollars in capital could ever take on. Do-it-yourselfers, however, know that’s far from the case, especially when it comes to…