Moldex Crankshaft Shop Visit

[Jagdpanzer]

Was in Detroit this week attending a conference. Had some spare time before catching my plane so stopped by Moldex Crankshaft in Redford. Had a nice chat and shop tour by the owner Joe Flower. A true master machinist if there ever was one. Turns out amazing work with his machines.
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[HAWAIIZR-1]

Nice! What a great opportunity to meet in person.


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[Ccmano]

Very cool, here’s a picture of the piece of art, flat plane crank they produced for the Hovemann Racing team in Germany running the crazy 800hp LT5. It was only recently delivered.
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http://a68.tinypic.com/aktisz.jpg

[HAWAIIZR-1]

Very cool, here’s a picture of the piece of art, flat plane crank they produced for the Hovemann Racing team in Germany running the crazy 800hp LT5. It was only recently delivered.

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:cheers:

http://a68.tinypic.com/aktisz.jpg



WOW!!!!


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[A26B]

Very cool, here’s a picture of the piece of art, flat plane crank they produced for the Hovemann Racing team in Germany running the crazy 800hp LT5. It was only recently delivered.
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:cheers:
http://a68.tinypic.com/aktisz.jpg

Jerrys Gaskets is pleased to be of service to Holger Hovemann & Norbert Vornholt. We worked as the intermediary between Holger & Moldex. The flat plane crank Hans posted a photo of is the second one produced by Moldex. The picture is excellent but seeing it in person is incredible. Absolutely fantastic work. We just recently shipped the crank and other parts to Holger.

Joe at Moldex is great to work with, always accessible, easy to work with and obviously a master machinist.

[5ABI VT]

Beautiful crank !!

[Pete]

Jerrys Gaskets is pleased to be of service to Holger Hovemann & Norbert Vornholt. We worked as the intermediary between Holger & Moldex. The flat plane crank Hans posted a photo of is the second one produced by Moldex. The picture is excellent but seeing it in person is incredible. Absolutely fantastic work. We just recently shipped the crank and other parts to Holger.

Joe at Moldex is great to work with, always accessible, easy to work with and obviously a master machinist.


Very pretty.
How much?

Pete

[Top Toy]

Is that machined from billet or a forging?

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[Paul Workman]

:thumbsup::happy1:

[Ccmano]

Is that machined from billet or a forging?

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I believe Moldex only does Billet cranks.
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:cheers:

[rkreigh]

homer says awwwwwwhhhhhh crank porn


first time I heard of the price of these little rascals I fainted as it was more than the price of any short blocks I had done and more than the price of hemi TF crank so I thought something was wrong.


I tried to get a "group buy" on cranks and ya know what, it's pretty hard to muster 20++ guys wanting to do 415s


do ya know how many 415s are even out there? Less than I thought.


So now I like going big bore short stroke as the liners and pistons and block mods are less than the price of the high zoot crank and I think the stocker is pretty strong. How strong, well not as strong as this sucker


I'll have to post my christmas crank porn pics and clean up my Sonny 3.875 crank to go to the dance. Dated by the Pankl ti rods in tuxedo


I think I need to coat the pistons. Phil sent me something that looks really cool there. And for sure some MLS gaskets, as I want to see how they do.


I hope to have a nice winter cleaning up the old LSV, and it sure was nice to hear Phil talk about this shop. Hard not to get excited about



crank jewelry:)