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Mr Maine 12-31-2015 05:10 PM

.003/.0035 on the mains and .0025 on the rods, what is the issue? Seems like one rod is a little wide. I'm only curious....

compedgemarine 12-31-2015 07:03 PM


Originally Posted by Mr Maine (Post 4389557)
.003/.0035 on the mains and .0025 on the rods, what is the issue? Seems like one rod is a little wide. I'm only curious....

that is were I ended up. when I started with all std bearings the rods were .0035 which was pretty loose for me, especially on new everything. the mains were tighter but were fine if it was a street motor. the rod throws were cut .001 smaller than any other crank I have here. all the rods were dead on the same except the one for some reason.

horsepower1 01-01-2016 09:38 AM


Originally Posted by compedgemarine (Post 4389476)
had to get different bearings and swap around to get what I wanted. having to cut one rod down a little to match the others to get the side clearance similar all across.

Very typical for aftermarket stuff. I wouldn't waste the time worrying about the rod side clearance. You have plenty even on the tight one.

Mr Maine 01-01-2016 10:34 AM


Originally Posted by compedgemarine (Post 4389587)
that is were I ended up. when I started with all std bearings the rods were .0035 which was pretty loose for me, especially on new everything. the mains were tighter but were fine if it was a street motor. the rod throws were cut .001 smaller than any other crank I have here. all the rods were dead on the same except the one for some reason.

Ahh, gotcha

Brandonb_05 01-01-2016 03:32 PM

The crank might have been machined on a Friday around 4:00

f_inscreenname 01-02-2016 12:50 PM


Originally Posted by Brandonb_05 (Post 4389736)
The crank might have been machined on a Friday around 4:00

or on a Monday morning ...
But like said I've talked to a hundred machinist over the years and most would rather have Scat over a lot of other crank makers. The last Eagle forged crank I bought had to be cut 10/10 because it was so screwed up. I'm sure it could have been less but I wasn't going to get into special bearing and such. I wont even get into the balance that needed to be corrected.

murfman 01-02-2016 05:20 PM

I'll let you know in a couple weeks. I just dropped off 2 scat 4" cranks and rods for the 2 408 Mopar small blocks at Opel Engineering last week. I ran a Scat in my 392 Stroker Hemi with no problems for 80K miles It was perfect out of the box, and balanced easily.


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