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Didn't say that. Just looking at numbers. I have never used the cast Chinese cranks but have run the piss out of Eagle and Scat forged cranks and they are just fine. I'm just curious about recent, not 10 years ago experience with them.
Being overseas and having a short deadline to get the stuff shipped means I may not want to hassle my buddy in Macon to drag the stuff to a machine shop and then pray they get it done on time and don't screw something up. He packs out in early March for Germany and if I want the stuff to go with him it has to be ready. I know how machine shops can be, we all do. The promise and then come the day to pack it up and it ain't ready. I am not convinced the 47 year old stock crank is a better crank just because some guys report failures of offshore cast cranks. I see stuff on the net but much of it is years old. Kind of like saying Craftsman is a great tool, maybe 40 yrs ago. What was is no more... |
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I have asked this question of Butler, who seems adamant that the new cast cranks are fine in under 600hp applications. I receny used an eagle cast stroker for a couple years including drag racing in a ~450hp engine no issues. When upgrading to forged for bigger power, the engine shop was happy to purchase the cast crank for another project.
I have not heard of cast crank issues in the past few years, but I am sure there are some horror stories out there- most likely pushed harder than they were intended for. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
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