For a drag racer.

For a drag racer, the challenge is to ascendency a car at 300 mph while driving down a 1/4-mile strip. The challenge is just as great for Keith Black Racing Engines Inc., southern Gate, Calif. There, A-356T-6 aluminum-alloy castings are machined into $60000 racing engines.

in the greatest degree of the machining at Keith Black is done upon a Mitsui Seiki gauge HU63A horizontal machining center. The machining center has a repeatability and positioning accuracy to 40-millionths. This flat of repeatability is emergencyed for racing success.

The HU63A includes an 8-station pallet plash 120-tool magazine, ...

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