Forged crank machining

younggun2.0 said

a new crank has not seen 1000's of miles and continued abuse. Newer HIGH quality forged cranks are going to be built from materials that are designed for the end users intended use. If he is planning on making 500+ hp NA. then stuffing 10+ lbs of boost to it then why even chance it. that is not a stock build. so why use stock parts?

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It won't make 500+ horsepower naturally aspirated up at this altitude though. The entire combo might make 500-550hp with 10lbs of boost. And I'm using a stock '77 440 block that has been mag'd and sonic checked. The crankshaft was mag'd as well and looked fine. The thing I'm mostly concerned about is going .030 on the rod journals to get stroke equalization.