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How to Pick a Crankshaft

By Steve Dulcich
Photography by Steve Dulcich
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This partially machined blank at Scat crankshafts is a non-twist forging, which can be machined to accommodate a range of strokes. Aftermarket forged cranks are typically made from high-quality grades of steel, and also gain strength by the design of the tooling to accommodate a non-twist manufacturing process. Such tooling is more practical for the comparatively smaller production runs of the performance aftermarket, as opposed to the mammoth production runs for the OE market.

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