Originally Posted By MR_P_BODY
Originally Posted By Twostick
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


My buddy races his 52 ford PU with w 460 BBF..
he sprays it also... the journals on that crank
are huge.... its a cast one... and HEAVY
wave

And when they come apart they Come apart! The 460 blew and the crank "parts" where in the pan, snout and flex plate flange where the biggest pieces with the rods hanging onto there parts, never saw anything like that before. But it was making about 700 hp and had 400 or more passes.