How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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Good enough for a 4000lb B-body w/automatic street car? This is for a customer, and will never see the track. He just wants something that sounds good, that he can beat on every once in awhile, but he also only wants to build this engine one time. The core engine is a low mileage unit out of a motorhome.
Use the crank or toss it?
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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Don`t see why not..........I know someone running deep 9`s w/a cast small block crank and he spins it up pretty good.
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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My motor started out in a full size B 100 short wheel base van. Untouched iron heads and next to no cam yet still went 14.20's. Still have the same rotating assy (cast crank, 6pk rods) since 2000.
I say use it
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
[Re: SKR8PN]
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Good enough for a 4000lb B-body w/automatic street car? This is for a customer, and will never see the track. He just wants something that sounds good, that he can beat on every once in awhile, but he also only wants to build this engine one time. The core engine is a low mileage unit out of a motorhome.
Use the crank or toss it?
No problem. Use it.Mopar cranks are not prone to breaking.
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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10.0's at 134 on spray.6 years and still like new.
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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i rebuilt a 440 with the stock cast crank and verything else stock in it except the cam. i used it in my 66 dodge tow car with the old 60's long rams on it for years. then removed it and install in the 66 baracuda bracket hotrod and went 12.20's for a few years. after that it came out and went into my 66 satelite for a few more years to test plate nitrous systems i was building. it would run low 11/s on 3 stages but finally broke the tin valley pan and sucked the heat insulator into the motor and spun all the bearings. so in retrospec they are ok to use for what he wants to do with his motor.
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
[Re: Sixpak]
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Supposedly the NHRA stocker guys like 'em cause they weight about 5 pounds less, which is less spinning weight downstairs..
Yep, I've talked to some NHRA stock guys who run cast cranks just to save a few lbs. They spin those motors hard too. I'd never use a cast crank myself but if someone wanted to go that way I'd never tell them that it wouldn't work. They do have a power limit but I'm not sure what it is.
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Re: How strong are the stock 440 cast cranks????
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When I saw this thread, the first thing that came to me was about 18 to 20 years ago Herb McCandless was selling new Mopar 440 cast cranks for $50! At the time everybody wanted a steel crank but I wish I would have bought a few!
I bought a few of those new cast 440 cranks. Still have them after all of these years! I'll probably never use them, they just sit on the shelf.
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