CALLIES COMPSTAR SBC CRANK$
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They get around the law because its there option to sell at W.D. most of the companies require a large buy in and a minimum yearly purchase. Dart for example is $50,000.00 per year in purchases to maintain W.D. Brodix is now $25,000.00 to maintain Master W.D.
I have been a Dart W.D. since 1979 so It would be a foolish for me to risk being moved to the jobber level just to make a few more sales.
We do sell all our product lines at Jobber which is a good distance below mail order with the exception of Compstar.What you think is a hooked up deal is probably jobber or if mail order more than that
Next time you need a high dollar part give us,Ed or any one of the other builders who are W.D. a call and compare prices,you may be surprised.Bill
I have been a Dart W.D. since 1979 so It would be a foolish for me to risk being moved to the jobber level just to make a few more sales.
We do sell all our product lines at Jobber which is a good distance below mail order with the exception of Compstar.What you think is a hooked up deal is probably jobber or if mail order more than that
Next time you need a high dollar part give us,Ed or any one of the other builders who are W.D. a call and compare prices,you may be surprised.Bill
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Originally Posted by billhendren
They get around the law because its there option to sell at W.D. most of the companies require a large buy in and a minimum yearly purchase. Dart for example is $50,000.00 per year in purchases to maintain W.D. Brodix is now $25,000.00 to maintain Master W.D.
I have been a Dart W.D. since 1979 so It would be a foolish for me to risk being moved to the jobber level just to make a few more sales.
We do sell all our product lines at Jobber which is a good distance below mail order with the exception of Compstar.What you think is a hooked up deal is probably jobber or if mail order more than that
Next time you need a high dollar part give us,Ed or any one of the other builders who are W.D. a call and compare prices,you may be surprised.Bill
I have been a Dart W.D. since 1979 so It would be a foolish for me to risk being moved to the jobber level just to make a few more sales.
We do sell all our product lines at Jobber which is a good distance below mail order with the exception of Compstar.What you think is a hooked up deal is probably jobber or if mail order more than that
Next time you need a high dollar part give us,Ed or any one of the other builders who are W.D. a call and compare prices,you may be surprised.Bill
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I would like to think so because I was one of there first but with all the belt tightening not so.This $50,000.00 thing came about two years ago,got a letter from them telling me to maintain $50,000.00 or I would be changed to jobber at the end of the year. at the same time they cut out all the accounts that only bought one or two blocks a year and notified the mail order houses they couldn't sell below jobber.as far as I can tell they all complied,the ones I have checked are usually J + 100.00/150.00 Bill
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Re: CALLIES COMPSTAR SBC CRANK$
Originally Posted by et7333
Who has the best price on Callies compstar 3.750 4340 sbc crank?
Buy the Eagle crank, compstar are 3 to 4 pounds heavier than a standard weight eagle crankshaft
www.cnc-motorsports.com
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Re: CALLIES COMPSTAR SBC CRANK$
Buy the Eagle crank, compstar are 3 to 4 pounds heavier than a standard weight eagle crankshaft
www.cnc-motorsports.com[/quote][/quote] Thanks, but I will not use Eagle products in any of my engines!
www.cnc-motorsports.com[/quote][/quote] Thanks, but I will not use Eagle products in any of my engines!
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Re: CALLIES COMPSTAR SBC CRANK$
Originally Posted by et7333
Buy the Eagle crank, compstar are 3 to 4 pounds heavier than a standard weight eagle crankshaft
www.cnc-motorsports.com
www.cnc-motorsports.com
Eagle is one of the best cranks on the market right now for the money.
We hear of engine faliurs due to a ton of so called engine builders you think they know what they are doing but don't.
We have been doing testing in our shop with local racers for the pas 2 years with different engine combos. We have had a 100% sucess rate.
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eagle cranks
I'm with you, et. We 've seen new Eagle forged cranks with the sizes bad enough they had to be re-ground to 010/010. And the SBC I-beam rods with the distorted parting line problem (which has been on going for over two years) is a very well-known issue. Compstar is the best of the imports, Scat is good, and Eagle is JUNK.
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Re: eagle cranks
Originally Posted by bubbabbc
I'm with you, et. We 've seen new Eagle forged cranks with the sizes bad enough they had to be re-ground to 010/010. And the SBC I-beam rods with the distorted parting line problem (which has been on going for over two years) is a very well-known issue. Compstar is the best of the imports, Scat is good, and Eagle is JUNK.
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Re: CALLIES COMPSTAR SBC CRANK$
Originally Posted by cncmotorsports
Originally Posted by et7333
Buy the Eagle crank, compstar are 3 to 4 pounds heavier than a standard weight eagle crankshaft
www.cnc-motorsports.com
www.cnc-motorsports.com
Eagle is one of the best cranks on the market right now for the money.
We hear of engine faliurs due to a ton of so called engine builders you think they know what they are doing but don't.
We have been doing testing in our shop with local racers for the pas 2 years with different engine combos. We have had a 100% sucess rate.[/quote]
You must be going with price and not quality as we have seen to much taper in the journals and there sizing is not consistant from journal to journal.
And you should put an Eagle crank in a set of V-blocks and check it for straightness or journal run out and then check an Compstar crank as there is no comparison.
But am sure your on the deep deal on the Eagle cranks and your going buy the cost not quality.
Comstars nitride is a deep nitride compared to the production flash nitride that Eagle uses.