Well I have been looking into the two brand names for a 383 crankshaft.Seems both have have a questionable history.Both,from what I understand,are China imports.Where the Scat is finished machined here in the U.S. and Eagle is finished machined off shore.

Comments I found on other forums about Scat are some are out of round and have stress cracks which result in the cranks breaking on the cast and cast steel ones.

The Eagle's machine work in comments from other forums,I found are very poorly done.Under sized and hard to balance.

So I am looking for your comments on what I think I have found.I am a "do-it-right" the first time kind of guy,but I can't justify buying one of the race forge cranks for my street driven van just to get reliability.I surely am not building a tinker's toy.This is supposed to be a torquer reg gas TBI or EFI 383.

What do you guys know about Howard's crankshafts??.I looked briefly at them on Competition Products.

Was it a matter of early cranks having issues in both brand names that have been resolved??.