The question no-one was asking

[CliveR]

Sharing a link to the section where Peter, the owner of the car described here, relates how he cast a cylinder block for an Aston Martin DB4 on a farm in Rhodesia. Good reading if you’re thinking it’s tough to keep an elderly car on the road

1963 Lindner Nocker Low Drag Coupe Build

You have an interesting project. Casting an aluminium block is relatively challenging and hopefully if i could share my experience casting aluminium blocks in Rhodesia 40 years ago, my learning mistakes might help you. I cast an Aston DB4 replacement block on our farm. It was a process of trial and many errors but we eventually produced a couple of aluminium cylinder blocks that drove hundreds of thousands of km. We made wood patterns easily enough but we found out the hard way that the castin…