Motor castings was the last and probably best foundry for the obsolete megablock as well as
RB water blocks. Circa 2008, both were replaced by the so-called World Block.

More recently Motor castings had been doing Koleno products as well..

Well, guess what, now Motor Castings will be gone entirely.
No more foundry, so I guess this means no more Koleno block either, until they find somewhere else, and there
aren't too many choices.



https://biztimes.com/motor-castings-co-shutting-down-cutting-113-jobs-2/

In related news:

The World block (It's Chrysler's tooling, ok?) .........Had been cast by the Dalton Foundry, who not coincidentally purchased Motor Castings....

What I just learned:
"Dalton was bought in 2016 by Speyside Equity and Beckner Cleary Partners"

Now I don't know the ins and outs of that, but any additional layers of complexity to the business probably doesn't help.
Could the purchase be part of the reason for the latest dry spell?

So, there is something to chew on, for those who follow such things (more folks than it might seem, since they're the physical source for what we use).

The main mystery I'd like to solve is, why would Chrysler allow a million dollar + tool to sit idle and not produce any parts?
Is something wrong and needs to be repaired, or is our market considered dead/unworthy?