Posted on 01/30/2021 10:23:03 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Edelbrock Group, a Southern California-based manufacturer and distributor of aftermarket auto parts, will soon be shuttering its Torrance headquarters which employs 270 workers.
In a recent notice sent to the state Employment Development Department, the company said employee layoffs would begin Jan. 15 and end March 31. The closure will affect 217 hourly workers and 53 salaried employees.
The Torrance facility includes executive offices as well as sales, advertising and marketing departments. The facility also has a state-of-the-art research and development department, testing facilities and manufacturing operations.
Neva Burke, Edelbrock’s vice president of human resources, didn’t give a reason for the Torrance shutdown in her letter to the EDD, although she said some of the operations will be relocated to the company’s casting foundries in San Jacinto.
She didn’t reveal how many displaced workers, if any, might be shifted to that location. Edelbrock is owned by Evanston, Ill.-based Industrial Opportunity Partners, which also declined to discuss the Torrance closure.
Edelbrock designs, manufactures, distributes and markets a wide range of aftermarket products, including intake manifolds, carburetors, camshafts, cylinder heads, exhaust systems, shock absorbers and other components designed for most domestic V8 and select V6 engines.
Edelbrock’s website lists six company locations, including the headquarters in Torrance, two casting foundries in San Jacinto, a distribution center in Olive Branch, Miss., a carburetor factory in Sanford, N.C. and the Edelbrock Race Center in Mooresville, N.C.
In February 2020, Industrial Opportunity Partners acquired COMP Performance Group, whose automotive brands include COMP Cams, TCI Automotive, FAST, ZEX and Inglese.
still. why not blame it on Obozo? He blamed everything on Bush.
>>I had a chance to buy a 65 Ford with a 390 in it and the guy said it was upgraded to a pointless ignition because points were too difficult to figure out. Because of that stupidity I backed out of the deal.<<
I had a Datsun PL 620 truck (great vehicle) that had dual points. It had a slightly warped distributor shaft so I had to replace the points pretty frequently. I kept a bunch of ‘em in my glove box. When the car would start missing I would pull over, pop the hood, grab 2 sets of points, open the distributor caps, replace the points, go in and kick the engine a few times to get the shaft right, gap the points with a dime, close and be on my way. All in 10 minutes or so.
Later, I got an after market electronic ignition (it replaced the points in the distributor with a light sensor) and that was that. The cool part was how easy it was to install.
Ah, remember when they made cars we could WORK on?
Well there is a name that is a blast from the past especially the Carbs and Headers. Seems I had an Edelbrock Carb (maybe Holly??) on my 1969 Javelin 390.
I think part of this is due to
California’s emission standards.
It’s almost impossible to build
a hot rod in California. Titling
a special built vehicle is a
nightmare, as anything built has
to have current smog requirements.
The Rat Rod craze has many hitting
the junk yards, and proof of
ownership for any vehicles and
parts is quite a process.
my old man never tought me that trick, made me use the gaper on the points and the plugs. damn new cars you cant even change the oil...
In 1991, I introduced the J&S SafeGuard Individual Cylinder Knock Controller to the aftermarket. About twenty years before MoTeC had it.
Shirley died from cancer three months ago, but I’m still at it, working on an ion sensing version now. I had to set it aside the last three years while I cared for her.
I was going through the photos on her phone after she died and found a video she made in 2016, before she got sick. She was recording my first bench test of the ion system. Her voice is a little hard to hear over the ignition noise, but if you listen closely at the end, you can hear her say “What a man, what a man.”
https://youtu.be/u0b3mFWPIqI
I later incorporated all that clutter into an Ignition Test board. You can see it here where I test the new J&S Vampire:
https://youtu.be/u0b3mFWPIqI
Hot rodding has its roots in Prohibition. Moonshiners would modify their flathead Fords or whatever they were running to handle the weight of all that booze and keep a step ahead of the police. Many PD’s in turn modified their cars and a “horsepower war” ensued. After Prohibition the first cars the FL State Troopers used were base model 1939 Ford coupes with the larger more powerful Mercury flatheads, like one of the first supercars, the same principle behind the first Buick Century’s, basically Specials with the bigger more powerful Roadmaster straight 8s, and of course the GTO decades later. This hot rod craze really took off after WW2 in southern CA.
Oops, this is the correct link:
https://youtu.be/5NjYMpQwaQ8
I periodically run some aviation fuel mixed with hi test in my 68 Corvette. Puts a spring in its step.
Yeah, I can still change the oil myself on my trusty old Cobalt. They use a cartridge type oil filter in a housing on top.of the engine next to the intake manifold, like on the old Chevy Stovebolt 6s, what’s old is new again. That and keeping it clean and waxing it from time to time is the only work I do on it myself.
“No big deal, those workers can just make solar solar panels instead, right?”
Or they can code!
Um...wait...more H1-b Indian immigrants are gonna do that. And they love Kamala!
I’m right in the middle of a build,
I wouldn’t even think of doing this
in California. Where I’m located,
the emissions required are driven
by the year of the engine. A PCV
valve is the only emissions
component on a 1968 Mopar 440.
I know full well, the NASCAR
story. Haul booze during the week
to finance your racing habit on
Saturday. Still a big fan today.
They’re starting to slide a little
though, with the Bubba noose
incident.
I heard that the CEO at the time wanted to live in greater Chicago.
That was all the reason they needed, though I’m sure they made up some other reasons.
Maybe the honchos shoulda done more mgt. by walking around in Wash. during design and development of the 737 Max 8...
NASCAR has slid a bit since they started running Funny Cars [FWD looking shells over a V-8 RWD chassis]. Likely not a single “stock” part anywhere.
1972
“marine diesel engineering school”
Agreed. All under the idea of
trying to keep the cars more
equal. 426’s and 429’s were
the last icons of a true ‘NASCAR’.
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