A buddy of mine used to race FE Fords in the 70's. He started using cast cranks because they were lighter and figured that was an advantage. He used to break forged FE cranks. According to him he never broke a cast one.

I saw a quote from Joe Sherman in Hotrod many years ago. At the time he was building some pretty stout SB 400's. He said that forged cranks were for people that couldn't sleep at night.

Kevin