440 steel crank upgrade

WSUTARD said

Well I was more going for internally balanced bs external. Also, if I’m going to spend money on balancing and turning then it might as well be a forged crank.


This is sort of what I was looking for I guess. $400-$500 roughly. I would spend $75 extra to get a forged crank assuming the cost for machine work is the same for cast.

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Unless you plan on swapping flywheels and balancers all the time or switching from manual to auto to run in different classes then external isn't really an issue. That $75 can become a slipper slope because then you need a balancer, flywheel, or torque converter.
This happened to me when the machine shop internally balanced my cast 340 crank. I now have shiny new SFI balacer and flywheel to the tune of ~$550.