{"id":321,"date":"2015-12-11T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2015-12-11T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:51:37","slug":"valve-cover-casting-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/2015\/12\/11\/valve-cover-casting-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve cover casting arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0794\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0794-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very happy with the first pour. I had what&#8217;s called a &#8220;short run&#8221; where the metal didn&#8217;t flow all the way. It&#8217;s right at the firing order. \u00a0The 1 and 5 are barely there. The metal made it it just didn&#8217;t fill. There was a hole below it that they welded in for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0795\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0795-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll sand the other numbers down to that level and see if I can make it work. Otherwise off they come. \u00a0I&#8217;ll modify the pattern so that future castings won&#8217;t have this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The lettering is nice and crisp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0796\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0796-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going with Prismatic lite charcoal wrinkle with the lettering and ribs raw brushed aluminum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very happy with the first pour. I had what&#8217;s called a &#8220;short run&#8221; where the metal didn&#8217;t flow all the way. It&#8217;s right at the firing order. \u00a0The 1 and 5 are barely there. The metal made it it just didn&#8217;t fill. There was a hole below it that they welded in for me. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/2015\/12\/11\/valve-cover-casting-arrived\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IdRp-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}