I Almost Flipped When I saw This

[Rug_Trucker]

At a receiver this week ran across these carb parts, new never finished being machined. Heading to the smelter.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Good grief!

 

[Rug_Trucker]

No bases just the tops.

 

[Syleng1]

Someone made a few boo boos.

 

[ch1ll]

With all the new Edelbrock carbs on the market, looks like they are moving away from the original AFB.

 

[Rug_Trucker]

New castings from TN machine in East TN. Probably Edelbrock defects.

 

[gzig5]

It doesn’t take much to have to reject and scrap a bunch of cast parts if you aren’t doing constant dimensional checks on CTQ’s. Lucky for them they caught the issue before all the machining time was wasted. I had to deal with crap like this from vendors for years. Hurts the supplier, hurts the manufacturer, and hurts customers when their product can’t be shipped for weeks or months because the order has to get back in the casting rotation.

 

[Demonracer]

Casting defects are much more common that you might think, especially with light weight metals. Remember the Barry Grant fiasco about porosity issues with the early Demon carburetors.