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Whitmore told me the Eagle cranks were just good cores, Jim Butler said the same thing. I had a cast Eagle crank that had to be completely reground .010-.010 and be straightened. Rods had .001 tapper, stroke was off and it was bent. Thrust was very rough and needed polished.
I had 800+ dollars in that thing. Gave it to my brother WITH a matched BHJ bamancer. I told him I would find a good 455 block and crank and run that before I trusted it. If he chunked it I would feel terrible. It was fixed right though. Its a gamble IMO. My Scat 4340 did not need a thing done to it. Have less into it than the cast Eagle. |
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Back to Molnar, we have built about 8 engines with Molnar crankshafts and rods so far. SBF, SBC, 440 MOPAR, 2 Pontiacs. So a decent sample size. More to come I imagine. No failures at this point. Last edited by mgarblik; 07-30-2023 at 10:18 AM. |
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My Molnar 4.00” stroker crank for my 400 will be here tomorrow. I’ll post some photos once I unbox it.
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2 things I really love about these classes. 1. The variety of engines and projects. 2 The age ranges of the students. Last year 16 students, ages 17-82. Thank you for the kind comments.
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A teacher along with my father being a mechanic who always had a Pontiac in the driveway is responsible for me being into Pontiacs.
That teacher was only 24-25 when I and other kids other were in his 2 period auto class in High School, so he was kind of one of us. We are still friends to this day. We think a lot alike because he helped me so much and I am forever grateful. I graduated in 83, my 455 HO was assembled the first time under his supervision in the late 80s. It was done after work during his night class at that same High School shop as a favor. I was not in his night class but he let me show up with the paying students like I was one of them. One of the smartest people I know and has saved me countless times over the phone with car problems. Got me home in the middle of nowhere with no parts stores around. In fact, this one teacher made such a impact on his students that 5-6 auto repair businesses were started from kids in my class. In class we worked on customers cars, broke collage kids and single mothers for the most part as our labor was inexpensive. Lots of oil changes, water pumps, timing chains ect, those sort of things were done by students. We had to write the work orders and then do the work, all in 2 hours or less. So my classmates started 3 oil change shops from scratch and a couple of full auto repair shops locally with most still in business to this day. Talk about a positive impact on the community ! A good teacher is worth so much to young people, all positive. It did not end well as school politics closed that wonderful class, jealousy I think . The engine stand I use today comes from that closing. |
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I've been a student of Mike's for about 43 years so far.
Eric
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How much did it cost ?
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Lou,covered in the first post of this thread.Tom
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Thanks Tom….$1063.5…. Really if so thats a good price.
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CHECK EVERYTHING!! Especially brand new stuff!
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BEFORE assembling the engine.
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Definitely the most critical check to Crank for straightness. Make sure machine shop asked to check.
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Received my crank yesterday. Didn’t really have the time to take it out of the plastic so I couldn’t get any good pics. I’ll try to send some tonight after work. She’s a heavy girl though.
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Gach, straightness, taper of the journals and journal finish are all equally important. We wouldn’t attempt to grind a crank that wasn’t straight.
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Yes and a really good shop that knows to check it all.
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This is crazy don’t laugh, had someone who bought a set of Crower billet Rods, packs everything up and off to be balanced. $350.00 for balancing. You ready gets everything back from balance shop. Then looks at the rods and noticed 2 of them are physically bigger, so obvious that he picks up on it right away. You mean you never noticed it before you sent them out…LOL then goes back to balancing guy and he says oh yeah your right. LOL then confronts guy he bought them off and he says oh I don’t know my mechanic package them up.. to funny. Then I say dude why don’t you get your money back, he says oh but he give me a great deal..LOL. Ok Mamaluke. Toooo funny.
Some times we think we are being helpful, in these post, but a Mamaluke just don’t get it and gets all offended. |
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ABSOLUTELY!!
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