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Gromek used the Dynamic OptiRough toolpaths to remove the material quickly. This 6061 aluminum billet supercharger manifold fits the TVS 2650 supercharger for Magnuson’s Camaro racecar. Being able to speed everything up, I was able to double the feed rates and, with Mastercam, I can program where the entry hole is and where the exit hole is, which is more efficient.” When my tool reps suggested these endmills it made a huge difference. “I couldn’t get the performances and finishes with the old tools. He is now able to rough out material and then go back in with a dovetail tool to achieve a good finish and evacuate chips effectively. The ones we mainly use are the 0.093" so it’s a 3/32nds endmill – pretty small – and when we have to go all around the sealing flange of a supercharger system, the run times get pretty long when roughing these O-rings,” said Gromek.
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Some of these could be a nice short little O-ring or some can go around the entire sealing flange of a pretty decent size lid. You have to rough out the slot with the smaller endmill. His tooling distributor suggested the Harvey Tool dovetail cutters from Harvey Performance Co., Rowley, Massachusetts.Ī selection of Helical endmills from Harvey Performance. Engineering, with whom Gromek works closely, started designing dovetail O-rings and he had a hard time finding a tool that could do the kinds of dovetails they needed. It’s the latter that posed Gromek one of his earliest challenges as a programmer and a machinist. They are intricate in terms of port design, flanges that must be super flat and O-ring grooves in various iterations.
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Made of sand-casted aluminum, they range in size from small brackets to full housings for big upper and lower manifolds that can be as large as 22"x17". The finished TVS 2650 6061 aluminum billet supercharger lid and manifold shows two billet brackets in the front, which became full production parts.Ĭast 328 and 356 aluminum comprise the majority of parts manufactured at Magnuson.
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He is the only full-time programmer but is training his shop supervisor in mill and lathe programming. Gromek, who has been with Magnuson for more than 17 years, working from the ground up, eventually became the machine shop manager four years ago. Today, nine machinists help churn out roughly 3,000 to 4,000 parts per month 80% to 90% of all products are produced in-house in two shifts per day. That is why, after many years of outsourcing various machining processes, experiencing longer lead times and, at times, substandard quality, the shop invested in eight CNC mills and three lathes, and four seats of MastercamCAD/CAM software from CNC Software Inc., Tolland, Connecticut, to power the operation. According to Hubert Gromek, machine shop manager at Magnuson, every little part of the superchargers, down to the most miniscule component, is important. Superchargers are like air pumps that pump the air forced into the engine to create more horsepower. The machining team at Magnuson Superchargers (left to right): Manuel Casasola, William Barton, Miguel Vallin Manzanarez, Kenton Klucker, Erik Perez, Javier Felix, Jesse David and Hubert Gromek. Maybe that’s why he entrusted his business and legacy to her. Both Jerry and Pendergast come from Mid-Western farm families.
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Magnuson sold the company to Kim Pendergast in 2010. Magnuson designed, engineered, machined and assembled over 32,000 superchargers for Toyota Racing Development (TRD) over a 16-year period of time and continue to build superchargers for many OEMs, such as Lotus, as they have for the last 12 years. Extending his love of the sport beyond the track, Jerry and his wife, Maureen Magnuson, started Magnuson Products LLC, Ventura, California, after many years of designing and building supercharger kits for the aftermarket. The late Jerry Magnuson is a legend in the hot rod racing and aftermarket industry.
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