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Intermet drives Cox Racing Team to improved performance with MADI crankshaft.


Intermet Corp.'s Archer Creek Foundry, Lynchburg, Va., used machinable austempered ductile iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies.  (MADI MADI Multichannel Audio Digital Interface
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) for green sand cast crankshafts for the Darrell Cox Racing Team. Participating with 1,100-hp, four cylinder Dodge Neons in numerous drag racing drag racing

Form of motor racing in which two contestants race side by side from a standing start over a straight quarter-mile strip of pavement. Winners go on to compete against others in their class until only one is left undefeated.
 events nationwide, the Cox team has used the crankshafts for the entire 2005 racing season with no incident.
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Title Annotation:Industry News
Publication:Modern Casting
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2005
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