318 340 steel crank

[RustyRatRod]

Who in the hell bashed anything? You asked a question. We answered it. My GAWD do you need a safe space now?

 

[prorac1]

Now that all the bashing has ended. I realized it was a cast crank and i scrapped it, along with the 318 and a 340 i had laying around.

Well, bless your heart!

 

[j par]

Who in the hell bashed anything? You asked a question. We answered it. My GAWD do you need a safe space now?

The worst I think was me telling him it was a paper weight but I was just kind of joking LOL I'm sorry if I hurt his feelers.....

 

[RustyRatRod]

The worst I think was me telling him it was a paper weight but I was just kind of joking LOL I'm sorry if I hurt his feelers.....

Well, if he really threw anything away, that's his stupidity. The cast crank will handle 500 plus HP if it has good fillet radii ground and a good quality balancer used with a good balance job. For most builds, a forged crank is good for bench racin' and not much more.

A great example is the Ford 351 Cleveland. Those engines routinely saw 9500 RPM on the NASCAR circuit and they never came with a steel crank, nor was one offered back then. Nodular iron is a very strong metal, especially when prepped properly.

 

[70-duster]

Hey rusty, you can take your safe space and shove it up your ***. You would go cry to your momma if you had to deal with the **** ive gone through and seen. There aint no snowflake here. Bashing was just a term line razzing, or heckling, or having fun with. And who the hell uses “GAWD”, what are you, a melennial.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Hey rusty, you can take your safe space and shove it up your ***. You would go cry to your momma if you had to deal with the **** ive gone through and seen. There aint no snowflake here. Bashing was just a term line razzing, or heckling, or having fun with. And who the hell uses “GAWD”, what are you, a melennial.

Whatever you say, guy. Nobody was bashing or razzing or anything else. We were trying to help you out. You did ask for help, remember? No need to get all butthurt because it wasn't the answer you were lookin for. That's all there is to it. You wanted one answer when the truth was another.

.....and if you didn't notice, in my last message before this one, I was STILL providing you with good helpful information about cast crankshafts. I could have left that out, but I chose not to, because I still want to help you.

 

[j par]

Hey rusty, you can take your safe space and shove it up your ***. You would go cry to your momma if you had to deal with the **** ive gone through and seen. There aint no snowflake here. Bashing was just a term line razzing, or heckling, or having fun with. And who the hell uses “GAWD”, what are you, a melennial.

Ya! What he said Rusty you big dummy. Lol

 

[dibbons]

I kind of wondered if "bashing" was just used tongue in cheek, and so it was. So no harm, no foul. Let's move on.

 

[j par]

Whatever you say, guy. Nobody was bashing or razzing or anything else. We were trying to help you out. You did ask for help, remember? No need to get all butthurt because it wasn't the answer you were lookin for. That's all there is to it. You wanted one answer when the truth was another.

.....and if you didn't notice, in my last message before this one, I was STILL providing you with good helpful information about cast crankshafts. I could have left that out, but I chose not to, because I still want to help you.

You don't know a steel crank from a corn LOL

 

[fishmens67]

Man, winter brings out all the tough guys.

 

[j par]

I kind of wondered if "bashing" was just used tongue in cheek, and so it was. So no harm, no foul. Let's move on.

Wait a minute I'm trying to turn this against Triple-R your ruining everything!

 

[RustyRatRod]

Wait a minute I'm trying to turn this against Triple-R your ruining everything!

I don't need your help with THAT. LOL

 

[j par]

Don't worry triple-r your good deed won't go unpunished by me that's for sure!

I don't need your help with THAT. LOL

 

[j par]

And for the record nothing I've owned has ever had a steel crank at least to the best of my knowledge.

 

[Krooser]

I sure wouldn't have tossed away any crank... sold a cast 318 to the local machine shop for $40 a few years ago... he needed cores to grind to replace some of the junk that comes in the door.

 

[j par]

I sure wouldn't have tossed away any crank... sold a cast 318 to the local machine shop for $40 a few years ago... he needed cores to grind to replace some of the junk that comes in the door.

Or 340 block? I think that's just a flat-out lie! And if somebody did throughout 340 block knowingly it must have been completely unsalvageable. Quite honestly I think that's just someone saying ignorant stuff to try and piss people off and for me it just makes me laugh.

 

[dibbons]

Maybe it was "tongue and cheek" again, "throwing out" meaning sold to someone else.

 

[j par]

Maybe it was "tongue and cheek" again, "throwing out" meaning sold to someone else.

Throwing out a 340 block is tongue-in-cheek?

 

[sireland67]

Throwing out a 340 block is tongue-in-cheek?

My last 340 was gave to me, the guy also gave my cousin one the same day.
Neighbor had a several pallets full of 340's cleaning up his dads estate. They are out there.

 

[krazykuda]

You don't know a steel crank from a corn LOL

I can poop corn...

But I can't poop a steel crankshaft....

 

[krazykuda]

That was a crappy thing to say...

 

[oldkimmer]

Don't worry triple-r your good deed won't go unpunished by me that's for sure!

. LOL

 

[oldkimmer]

A 318 crank is heavier than a 340 crank so if u put the 318 crank in a 340 it would need to be lightened. Kim

 

[yellow rose]

A 318 crank is heavier than a 340 crank so if u put the 318 crank in a 340 it would need to be lightened. Kim

A 318 crank is lighter than a 340 crank. The 340 bob weight is much heavier than a 318.

 

[Max1196]

You're both right! They both weigh the same (physically) in weight only, BUT not in where the weight is locate throughout the crank in terms of the necessity of a "balanced" bob weight. #1 is 340 #2 is 318 #3 is 340 to the left with the cut-out on the crank flange for the factory access to drill for lightning the "pin" end of things, front end gets the same treatment.