Re: Crank and rods for 1000hp?

rmcomprandy November 6th 2016, 9:43 pm

Lem Evans wrote:
Scott Foxwell wrote:You can also get BB Chev snout. I have a front cover for one.
For 1K HP you really don't need anything special. Standard weight forged crank and H beam rods with 2000 bolts will live a long time. I think the Lunati cranks are Scat forgings.

Chris keeps telling me that they are the same but, I have several observational issues with that. They may or may not be the same forging but, they ain't finished the same.

I am not sure about these days but Kellogg in Jackson, Michigan used to provide most of the steel crankshafts to Lunati.

Today, they may be just performing the machining for Lunati on somebody else' forgings for some applications.

IDT-572 November 6th 2016, 9:52 pm

There is a big difference in the surface of the unmachined part of the crank too.

Scott Foxwell November 7th 2016, 10:10 am

rmcomprandy wrote:
Lem Evans wrote:
Scott Foxwell wrote:You can also get BB Chev snout. I have a front cover for one.
For 1K HP you really don't need anything special. Standard weight forged crank and H beam rods with 2000 bolts will live a long time. I think the Lunati cranks are Scat forgings.

Chris keeps telling me that they are the same but, I have several observational issues with that. They may or may not be the same forging but, they ain't finished the same.

I am not sure about these days but Kellogg in Jackson, Michigan used to provide most of the steel crankshafts to Lunati.

Today, they may be just performing the machining for Lunati on somebody else' forgings for some applications.

It may not be the case with the BBFord. A very good friend and my former machinist in CA's brother was the head of the crank division at Scat and he told me personally that they supplied Lunati with their BB forgings, but we were talking about BB Chevy at the time so I'm not 100% sure.

fastashley November 8th 2016, 8:26 am

Does having the shorter Boss snout interfere with running a motor plate?

Doug Rahn November 8th 2016, 8:48 am

fastashley wrote:Does having the shorter Boss snout interfere with running a motor plate?

No!

fastashley November 19th 2016, 9:51 am

Bought some nice 6.700 Oliver's.
Think I'm going with a Scat 4.500 with Boss snout.
Now I need an A460 block!

Lem Evans November 19th 2016, 12:05 pm

What address should I send it to? Laughing

wayney November 19th 2016, 11:59 pm

sounds like Lem is giving away blocks Laughing

Lem Evans November 20th 2016, 11:40 am

It is almost Christmas... santa

68formalGT November 20th 2016, 12:48 pm

Dear Santa Lem, all I want for Christmas is an A460 big bore block and a set of 598 Diamond nitrous pistons for TFS A heads!

wayney November 20th 2016, 9:22 pm

68formalGT wrote:Dear Santa Lem, all I want for Christmas is an A460 big bore block and a set of 598 Diamond nitrous pistons for TFS A heads!

hell, i would be happy with a small bore one, would love to pay the extra to bore it LOL

Mark O'Neal November 21st 2016, 5:15 am

rmcomprandy wrote:

I am not sure about these days but Kellogg in Jackson, Michigan used to provide most of the steel crankshafts to Lunati.

Today, they may be just performing the machining for Lunati on somebody else' forgings for some applications.

Last I heard Kellogg signed a huge contract with CAT (last year), and dropped anything we'd be interested in. Killed us on the 4.6L cranks, until Scat stepped up.

Lunati buys from several crank companies, Scat and Callies for two.

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