A typical crankshaft is made up of a series of main journals that support the crank in the block and a series of rod journals offset from the crank centerline that are affixed to the connecting rods ...

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 ...

Each modification to a car's engine exposes a new weak point. Maybe it's insufficient injector flow or poor-breathing heads, or it's a crankshaft has the same approximate rigidity as a Twinkie.

Ah, memories. It seems like only yesterday when offset grinding a crank for a miniscule bump in cubic inches was the only game in town. Anyone lucky enough to score a 400 small-block crank at a swap ...