Raconteur
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332 MPH = Money + New Cylinder Heads for DSR & JFR!
I bet if NHRA made a Claimer rule, whereas the winner's complete engine could be purchased after the last round for a sum that equals the "street value" of all of the individual components, the playing field would level out pretty quickly.
I just priced a complete set of ready to run AJ heads with a manifold for a nostalgia owner at a little over $11,000.00 --- billet 14:71 blowers are about the same amount ...........What's the "street price.......
Here's a neat example of what I mean. Chunk of material in- billet block out. Once the check is written for the machine, each successive block gets that much cheaper.
Matsuura Maxia: V8 Engine Block Machined From Solid - YouTube
I wonder kind of software is used to programs these things. That has got to be one sweet piece of software. I work for a company that makes CAD and FEA software, so I am familiar with complicated software, but I think this is one step above what we do, taking a CAD file and programming a sequence of material and tool movements. The developers of this software must be very spatially oriented thinkers.
Mastercam CAD/CAM software - NC programming software for 2 axis, 3 axis, simultaneous 4 axis & 5 axis milling, multi axis lathe, live tooling, Wire EDM and routers.
Huge racing, especially drag racing, fans. They sponsor Sean Bellemeur, and have been involved with Jim Cunningham and JFR. I have some friends that work for them, they're just a few miles from where I live.
The impressive thing about MasterCam (or any CAM software) is that it produces a computer code from the drawing that the machine can understand. When I learned code generation, we had to manually write programs for simple parts such as a simple square, which would have maybe ten lines of code. One movement of the tool or table is one line of code. I have done many programs with MasterCam that have 500,000 lines of code or maybe more. I remember one program that was so long it took 3 hours just to load to the machine. Try explaining THAT to your boss sometime.I wonder kind of software is used to programs these things. That has got to be one sweet piece of software. I work for a company that makes CAD and FEA software, so I am familiar with complicated software, but I think this is one step above what we do, taking a CAD file and programming a sequence of material and tool movements. The developers of this software must be very spatially oriented thinkers.