That's correct, I've seen really good stuff from Scat and other offshore companies, but I also have seen what you are experiencing now as well. More consistently from Scat more than anything is the balance not being as close as it could/should be for our standards. The journal sizes being out of round and tapered is not uncommon, but In my experiences with them is probably around 15%-20% of the time. One other issue I had with one of their cranks was in a Chevy 400 where they drilled a lightening hole through one of the rod journal's too close to the bearing surface and made the journal collapse almost immediately on startup. But I would check all aspects of the crank and not just the obvious things.
