was talking to a guy at work who races at a local dirt track about his engine setup he said he had a dragonslayer crank oliver rods and wesco pistons and it cost him $5000 for all that stuff and i said how??? rods $1000 pistons ?? and crank $1000 he says no the cranks was $2000. when i was looking online at cranks i found them for $990 and he says that those are seconds not as good in quality as if u buy them right from callies is this true or is he just blowin smoke
thanks

 

I have the Callies Magnum, which is one step up from the Dragonslayer. It was about $1,150 direct from Callies. That was about 7 years ago. I can't see why they would charge $2,000 for a Dragonslayer.

 

Balancing with a whole lot of mallory slugs could account for the price difference, doesn't seem likely though.

 

so would you guys buy one right from callies or a distributer.??

 

Just go find the best deal. I usually buy my stuff used anyway so I couldn't tell you who has the best prices on new stuff. Check the supporting vendors page on this site, there should be a few that sell callies cranks. VRE is a good company to work with from what I hear.

 

Sounds like the engine builder is getting his mark-up of 100%.