For a drag racer, the challenge is to bridle a car at 300 mph while driving down a 1/4mile strip. The challenge is just as great for Keith Black Racing Engines Inc., toward the south Gate, Calif. There, A-356T-6 aluminum-- alloy castings are machined into $60000 racing engines.
Most of the machining at Keith Black is done forward a Mitsui Seiki model HU63A horizontal machining center The machining