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Ahhhhh, c'mon Paul.....it's only $$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!! Every ZR-1 should have a college fund.;)

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i've never had a good answer to why our cranks are so ******* expensive. I talked to a friend of mine who builds motors years ago and he couldn't believe what our cranks cost vs what he can get a race crank for

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She's lives.

Enjoy brotha :cheers:

Hey Dennis, we agree on something :dancing

Pete

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The reason is all the extra machining and drilling the LT5 crank requires. Production time is probably at least double a regular SBC crank.

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Jag is right. There's a big difference between buying cranks for blocks that number in the 100s of thousands (or millions in the case of SBCs and BBCs) and a very limited production (read: near custom) motor - the LT5 Adding to that, it's a custom crank for a very limited production motor to begin with.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the Bryant crank is a billet steel job. It starts out as a single piece of billet steel and the crank is then CNC sculpted from it. And, last I heard, the price tag is $5500 per copy. That makes offset grinding of a stock crank "attractive".

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...etgrinding.jpg

P.

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Bryant Crank $5300.00 delivered to my door.The Crank cost is about $4200.00
the rest of the money comes from the balancing and shipping.To balance
My Bryant crank they used 16 pieces/slugs of mallory.

AL

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WOW Thats a lot of mallory
The Bryant are pretty and lite weight.

I went with the Moldex ( on the 402 ) it was $23 or $2400 to the door. But it was not finished. I did not have my final bob weights, also it did not get the knife edge that I wanted. In the end with finish work $35-3700.

That's why the 380ci was built for GC. Want more for less $$ idea's.
If I do one for me or someone else in the future it will be with the ground stock crank again. To be able to take $35-$5500 off the bill of the motor makes it allot nicer.

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Well lets talk about the next build!!! Another 380!!!!!

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I enjoyed 1500 miles of it over the last two days. Its running strong!!!! Thanks for those cams Pete. Up to doing another set of Intakes? GC

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You heard it this morning David!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)