would someone like to cast some Pontiac water cross-overs?

[61-63]

I have a friend who would like to have 5 to 10 '61-'64 Pontiac tri-power intake manifold water cross-overs cast in aluminum. Would someone here be interested in taking this project on? My friend would buy the original intake manifold, hack saw off the water cross-over portion and provide it to whoever takes on the project, and obviously expects to make the whole thing worth while money wise. He has access to a machinist so the post casting machining would be done elsewhere.

This project relates to nostalgia super stock drag racing.

If some one would like to take this on please PM me and I will get the two of you in touch with one another.

I visit this board to read machining type threads and know nothing about metal casting other than that you folks do it.

Thanks,

John

[metalworkz]

Hello,
Do you have pictures of what needs to be cast?

Regards,

[61-63]

It is very much like this one but the water neck bolts onto the front of the crossover rather than on top. This is a '65> crossover currently being cast and machined commercially. No one produces the '61-'64 my friends wants.

[advt001]

61-63 your friend is going to saw up an original intake and try to use that as a pattern?I can build the tooling required for my customer and supply you with castings. If 1 or 2 pieces are all he is wanting it will be far cheaper to have them fabricated.

[metalworkz]

The cut off original would need some work to make it suitable as a pattern anyway and the final dimensions would still need to be supplied. As the last poster has indicated it might be easier to make the patterns and they could be made in a manner better suited to the molding process.

Regards,

[61-63]

My friend got two commercial bids on having these things cast and the price ended up being $700 to $1000 per crossover if he is only going to have ten done. He only needs one and had planned to sell the other nine but could never do so at that price. So I think he is resigned to hack sawing off a cast iron one, painting it with aluminum paint, and using that, which is what I told him he ought to do in the first place.

The '65> up pictured above sells for $60 so apparently they had 1,000 of them cast or some large number of them.

Thank you all for the responses.

[mcphill]

If you have any interest in pursuing this further, e-mail me at mike(at)mcpii(dot)com. I can scan in the part he has, model it in SolidWorks, print a prototype to test fit it, make wax patterns, and have the parts sand cast. I could see doing 10 in the range of $100-150 each supplied price to you/your friend.