3500 forged crank

[CNCguy]

This is what came out of the 04 3500 I bought.

Definately steel, Forged, well I guess thats up in the air now.

Wide parting lines indicate a forged crank and narrow lines are normally cast. During the forging process, there is a lot of extra material that is squeezed out of the dies and later cut off in a trimming operation. The mold for the casting process shuts off pretty good and therefore doesn't create a big parting line.

Kind of hard to tell from that pic but it looks forged. The 3900 crank appears to be forged.

The quickest pics that I found are here... http://forums.godragracing.com/viewt...c0ec190e8e2898

Hope this clears things up a little.


Edit: Let me add that the cast steel cranks are considerably stronger that the cast iron cranks.