Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy
well here is the low down on the china cranks .they. scat. cat .ohio eagle etc all are coming from china. now the billet scat and maybe ohios are not? scat makes there hi rent 300m and 4340 cranks in house and i have used all of them. some are they say ground here? but the forging are ALL coming from china so it boils down to. who.s name you want to buy. i have had. cats .scat .ohios all in the shop at the same time and they are all the same forgings and used them all they are very nice for the price. but they may fall short of a crower or brc? i have seen them used in and i have put them 850+hp big blocks when this stuff was first out some of it was bad but now it is good and have seen it go thru some tough burn downs and had them reground and put back to use but i check all of them i do not care who makes the crank US or china
I will agree with what Pat says here.
One area that is often over looked is balancing.
It is not a bid deal if you balance external but when you go to balance internal on the Cat cranks you may use some more malory.