WHO MAKES THE BEST 383 CRANK WHERE TO GET ONE?

 

'Best' is subjective. What are your criteria? The ultimate (strength and cost) is probably a Callies 4340, followed closely by the Lunati unit.

 

Within the realm of reason I'd go with Callies. There are also "billet" cranks in the $2,000+ range if you need something like that.

Rich Krause

 

Personally, I think Cola makes good cranks. But as stated what kind of application are you planning on running.

 

I agree with Rich and IDOXLR8

Callies and Cola definitely make the best forged cranks for LT1s. It depends on ur application, but generally, I would say Cola's are a little better for maintaining upper RPM usage, like auto-crossing. However, that is a very general statement. What exactly are ur goals?

 

usually I find most people can agree on the three C's being the best Callies, Cola and Crower for forged units..

Eagle and Scat make great cast units..

 

Yeah, the "three C's", I like that!

Rich Krause

 

lol Good one

 

Crower 39 lbs lightweight crank!

 

For forged the cola crank is a steal!! its under 1000$ and has most of the features the expensive ones have.

For cast steel, the Eagle and Scat are about the same.

 

Callies and Lunati are my 2 favorites. Personally I think Lunati>Cola.

 

fixed

 

Dyslexic?

Lunati > Cola

 

What is your reasoning behind that?

 

Whats your reasoning otherwise?

I have never personally used Callies, but from who i trust they say Callies is damn good.

Now for my personal experiences, which are not much, but my machine shop thinks the same way as I do.

I put together a 381 with a Lunati crank.. It did not take much malloy at all to internally balance. The counter balances were not huge and the stock oil pan fit WITHOUT any beating. Great quality piece.

My coworker built a Cola crank 383 (also LT1) and the counterbalancer were bigger and it needed a lot of malory to balance.. Oil pan needed serious adjustments AKA beat the hell out of it with a hammer It had front seal issues which we suspect was bad machining on the crank.. That front seal always leaked.

The worst was the Eagle crank that I built on my 1994 Z-28.. I would take a comparable SCAT crank over an Eagle any day of the week. That crank was a PITA. But worked well all said and done.

None of the cranks broke or had strength problems, or even considered bad, but the quality seemed better with Lunati.. That is why my machine shop also seems to love their crank kits. My limited expierences matches their extensive experience..

I am sure everyoen has their favorite cranks ect, but I sure as hell will pick Lunati over Cola from what I have seen, heard ect.