Rotating assemblies
07-07-2007, 08:53 AM
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Rotating assemblies
Would like input about Ohio Crankshaft rotating assemblies. Good,not so good or who do you recomend?
07-07-2007, 10:18 AM
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It seems to be hit or miss with them from what I have seen. You get what you pay for.
07-07-2007, 10:24 AM
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Give Callies Performance a call. Ask for Brook Piper or Duane Boes. The product line ranges from excellent light weight assemblies to their CompStar line, which is better than most imports.
07-07-2007, 01:07 PM
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For what it's worth, my nephew put one of Ohio's 434" sbc short blocks in his '37 Chev last year. 0 problems and he was pretty impressed with their customer service.
Again, for what it's worth.
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07-08-2007, 06:26 PM
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I bought a unassembled 540 shortblock from Ohio crankshaft and have run it for 2 years with no problems.I will buy another one from there when the time comes.
07-09-2007, 12:41 PM
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Beast, what you are building has a lot to do with your needs, If for example you are building a mild street or bracket engine, you may be fine but I've read posts on other web sites about the Ohio cranks in a blown alcohol applications and the replies were not good.
If your looking to make big power call Bryant they are the best in the crankshaft business.
Remember the old phrase; You get what you pay for!
07-10-2007, 04:56 AM
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For a low power application they may work ok,we have seen a fair amount of cracked ones and two broken ones in the last year.The dragon slayer is a far better bet.Bill
07-10-2007, 03:43 PM
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Thanks for the replies guys. I'm rebuilding my 477 that spun a bearing,due to the oil pickup screen broke off the pickup tube.
09-15-2007, 04:11 AM
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I bought an unassembled 540 from them..everything checked spot on when I was assembling it...I have since heard bad things.I have had no problems so far knock on wood...but have only ran it a couple of times.
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