milling heads for comp ratio increase
Yes I understand liking a nicely tuned ...
Yes That is true, I agree with all of it, except the forged vs cast - just me though...however without knowing very much at all I could say pretty certainly that a cast Mopar crank is going to be a better crank than an equivalent Chev one. And I have seen a broken cast crank - it was in a 318-3, which is the truck motor, cracked right in half but not fully in two pieces, but enough so that it had twisted slightly) and looked a bit strange when you looked at it in the engine. I know that the truck engines were supposed to all have forged cranks but this was a cast crank, so may have been swapped at some time through its life. Have no idea of the history of that engine or what vehicle it was in, may have been a truck or passenger car.
But back to the main idea... If I was in your area or similar place Stateside, no doubt I would change my options in line with what was readily available.
Still on cranks, I love this forum because in another thread it described the differences between a 273-318 forged crank and a 340 one. I had always wondered about that and even though I had noticed the drilled areas, neither me nor my Mopar mechanic at the time associated that with the heavier 340 rods.
