[STEVE POTTS]

You can buy a brand new 3000 to 4000 pound car for $5 to $15/pound. Even an exotic high performance car would cost about $20 to $30 per pound.

This block alone will cost $62.5 per pound. The aluminum chips left over from the 400 pound blank can be re-meted and re-cast into more blanks. My point is that the leftover chips are not discarded, they have a scrap value.

Aluminum costs about $1.50 per pound for the raw material ready to be machined.

Compare this to a brand new scat crankshaft for an FE. The cranks weighs roughly 70 pounds and sell for $500. Thats only $7.00 per pound for a highly machined/finished product.