Originally Posted by apkano
WOW...I'm impressed...that looks great! It's almost a shame that it's going on a track only car.
I think you may have just spawned ideas in a bunch of people's heads that are going to want to do the same thing to their parts!
Just curious....roughly how long did it take to do, and about how much cash in consumable items and labor?
It took me about 60 hours of work to get the "sand casting" roughness off of everthing above the block and get it down to a perfectly smooth, lightly polished finish, that included the molded lips (seam points) that are everywhere and the inside of every airflow surface... Then I took the valve covers and intakes to get them professionally (highly) polished.
The materials cost was probably $450 in Dremel attachments... But, I cooked 3 Dremel professional tools and kept returning them to the store I bought them from saying they were defective, because they died after about 2 days each... I finally replaced them with another brand of tool.