Help me decide
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,601
Likes: 4
From: Texas
I like Howards Cams and Ohio Crankshaft rotating assemblies... good equipment at reasonable prices. Howards supplies alot of short track racers.. and their cranks are made in the USA... their website goes into
some detail about their manufacturing processes.
Ohio Crankshaft has had a good reputation for a long time... they are a smaller company that has a great product and are easy to deal with..
they are also one of the best companies in the US to have engine
repair work done.
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http://www.howardscams.com/Catalog.pdf
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http://www.ohiocrank.com/
some detail about their manufacturing processes.
Ohio Crankshaft has had a good reputation for a long time... they are a smaller company that has a great product and are easy to deal with..
they are also one of the best companies in the US to have engine
repair work done.
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http://www.howardscams.com/Catalog.pdf
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http://www.ohiocrank.com/
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,360
Likes: 3
From: NORTHEAST
We have a full blown machine shop and are work is done in a HAAS 4-axis CNC machining center and we build a lot of engines for circle track and street performance and a block all machined which clean and magged and sonic tested, line honed with a new ARP bolt kit, decked to your demension, bored and plate honed and stroker clearanced in less then 2 minutes LOL for 595.00 is what we charge. NOT 3000 dollars
And we have had some of the Ohio cranks in the shop that ustomers have brought in to balance and we have found that the polish them to size which does not leave a very flat journal one crank on the front main which is appox. 1 inch wide and there was .005 differance from one side to the other. And these cranks were on the extreem low side. They did take them back but the others they sent did still have some taper to them but were useable.
We use the Scat forged cranks on the street and stri engines we have built with zero problems as the journals were flat and to size and straight.
If your going to run NOS it maybe worth installing billet center caps or finding a block with 2482 caps on it.
Here is a link to a 383 we built with 195 AFR's and we have found that a well prepared of 906 Vortec heads made the same power.
http://www.chevelles.com/forums/show...highlight=DYNO
And we have had some of the Ohio cranks in the shop that ustomers have brought in to balance and we have found that the polish them to size which does not leave a very flat journal one crank on the front main which is appox. 1 inch wide and there was .005 differance from one side to the other. And these cranks were on the extreem low side. They did take them back but the others they sent did still have some taper to them but were useable.
We use the Scat forged cranks on the street and stri engines we have built with zero problems as the journals were flat and to size and straight.
If your going to run NOS it maybe worth installing billet center caps or finding a block with 2482 caps on it.
Here is a link to a 383 we built with 195 AFR's and we have found that a well prepared of 906 Vortec heads made the same power.
http://www.chevelles.com/forums/show...highlight=DYNO
