These days, forged cranks are scarcer than pickpockets in a nudist colony. Only Chevrolet still offers them in any quantity. If you own a Ford, Olds, or Chrysler Hemi,forget it. And when it comes to ...

Whenever a customer buys a vehicle from the General powered by the 5.3 liter Ecotec3 V8, they might have a bit of a difficult time spotting every polished part on the engine. That’s because in this ...

In the old days, crankshafts got surprisingly little consideration in a typical high-performance engine buildup. Typically, the same crank that came out of the core motor was reused, with crank prep ...

Ah, memories. It seems like only yesterday when offset grinding a crank for a miniscule bump in cubic inches was the only game in town. Anyone lucky enough to score a 400 small-block crank at a swap ...

All of a sudden, the ubiquitous 383 is the wee-man on the block. With 400-plus cubic-inch small-blocks becoming more the rule than the exception, yesteryear's stroker combos have developed a bad case ...

The crankshaft manufacturing process there was nearly identical to the one here, except that a grease pocket was milled into the forging in Brazil. The court held that machining the grease pocket in ...