This section of the industry may be classified as jobbing with quantities generally small varying from one off to perhaps 100 off. Tooling for producing open die work may consist of flat or shaped ...

Nonetheless, the choices are many, and not all cranks are created equal. Should you settle for a cast-steel piece, or step up to a forging? What's the difference among 5140, 4130, and 4340 steel? Do ...

Sheffield Forgemasters has appointed Swiss forging specialist Presstrade Technologies GmbH to install the UK’s largest open-die forging press. Presstrade will oversee installation of a 13,000 tonne ...

All of a sudden, the ubiquitous 383 is the wee-man on the block. With 400-plus cubic-inch small-blocks becoming more the rule than the exception, yesteryear's stroker combos have developed a bad case ...

In the old days, crankshafts got surprisingly little consideration in a typical high-performance engine buildup. Typically, the same crank that came out of the core motor was reused, with crank prep ...