Automotive
JLO Automotive Products
JLO Metal Products currently supplies impact extruded aluminum components to a wide range of Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive product manufacturers and aftermarket distributors. Aluminum automotive products manufactured from JLO forward impact extrusions, reverse impact extrusions, and combination impact extrusions include:
- A/C Accumulators & Driers
- Air Bag End Caps
- Brake Parts
- Filter Housings
- Fuel Pump Housings
- Hose Connectors & Fittings
- Mufflers
- Shock Absorber Components
Our engineers will assist in making your custom OE and aftermarket automotive component designs compatible with our impact extrusion process. To request design engineering support or to send a specific technical inquiry, click here.
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A/C Accumulators & Driers
- Tooled for most standard OE and aftermarket sizes and shapes
- Aluminum accumulators and driers significantly lighter in weight than comparable steel designs
- Reverse extrusion process ideally suited for rapid, high volume production of symmetrical, hollow can-shaped parts
- Impact process encourages can designs with bottoms thicker than the walls or cans with difficult to form bottom configurations
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Air Bag End Caps
- Delivers near-net shaped starter blanks that drastically reduce CNC machining time and material scrap
- Achieves a fully wrought component with uniform grain structure maximizing the strength, toughness and machinability of the final design
- Complex multiple diameter geometries difficult to cost-effectively reproduce through competing manufacturing methods
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Brake Parts
- Flange and extension designs difficult to cost-effectively reproduce through competing manufacturing methods
- Single piece impact extrusion construction replaces equivalent two-piece brake component designs
- Grain flow for the impact conforms to the contour of the part maximizing strength characteristics
- Impact process encourages component designs with integral ribs, flutes or locater pins
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Filter Housings
- Extrusion process ideally suited for rapid, high volume production of symmetrical, hollow can-shaped parts with integral protruding features
- Capable of offering either threaded or non-threaded housing extensions
- Lighter weight, cost-effective alternative to equivalent steel component designs
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Fuel Pump Housings
- Integrated housing and hose fitting extension replaces comparable 2-piece designs, reducing assembly time and required part count for a given bill of material
- Allowable overall length to diameter ratio of up to 10:1 promotes unique design opportunities
- Completely forged, non-porous vessels assure a pressure-tight, leak proof container
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Hose Connectors & Fittings
- Reverse extrusion process ideally suited for rapid, high volume production of symmetrical, hollow can-shaped parts
- More corrosion resistant than the equivalent steel connectors or fittings
- Close tolerance connectors and fittings formed by impacting may prove more economical than those formed by competing manufacturing processes
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Mufflers
- Capable of producing muffler designs necked at one or both ends that can not be cost-effectively achieved through competing manufacturing methods
- Highly repeatable production process yields reliable impacted mufflers conforming to agreed upon OE and aftermarket standards and specifications
- Custom hole patterns punched to meet all known current automotive application requirements
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Shock Absorber Components
- Achieves a fully wrought component with uniform grain structure maximizing the strength, toughness and machinability of the final design
- Delivers near-net shaped starter blanks that drastically reduce CNC machining time and material scrap
- Complex technical shapes difficult to cost-effectively reproduce through competing manufacturing methods