VR880 Molds

Those look familiar-

So, seriously, is any one making the castings? Can we pass around the molds and everyone do thier own? Money always seems to be the thing for me so getting my hands on a set of casses and transmission housing would be a dream come true!

motorson said:

So, seriously, is any one making the castings? Can we pass around the molds and everyone do thier own? Money always seems to be the thing for me so getting my hands on a set of casses and transmission housing would be a dream come true!

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Do you expect new cast parts to cost less than original parts?

rotorwrinch said:

The case is as thick as it could be reasonably manufactured. The area below the flange for the cylinder has no recess. This is the area that often gets reinforced with weld on cases that are used in racing applications. I understand that the same patterns were used for the cases that had a larger OD main bearing assembly.

Rj

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I think that is correct, RJ. I bought a Falicon crankshaft and cases with the larger mains from Kenny, and it appears to be from the same mold, just bored out for the larger bearings.

Ken

Do you expect new cast parts to cost less than original parts?[/quote]

No, but I already have a bunch of stock cases and building an engine to put out a lot more power than stock would just break those from what I hear people saying. Any way, I know people who invest their time diserve to make money off of it. If I had the molds I could do the casting and machining myself.

If you can do casting and machining in house, then why not modify the stock cases you have to use as patterns to cast new stronger parts?

Pattern makeing is a skilled trade , allowing for shrink , tial copys and adjustments is liable to be one or two Er months work . Thad be 5 d , in 1665 .

If you have an original set of cases you already have the patterns required, and all that you need to do is + them up in areas which need to be thicker, and add a skim of body-filler over the rest to allow for shrinkage. A foundry I know makes Bugatti gearbox casings using this method, and it seems to work very well indeed, with the finished parts being better than the originals!

Making patterns from scratch is something else entirely, but even this is today much much easier as stereo lithography can sometimes be used, with patterns being printed from CAD drawings or even scans from originals.