crankshaft grinding for stock
 

who is doing this in southern California?

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

I had one prepared at Castillo's in La Mirada, and another done at Pettis Performance in Hesperia.

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

Rudy Castillo is my friend but he is really struggling
with his health and his brother retired with health issues.
I have been doing business with his exclusively for
30 years. However, it took him over a year this time and I just.
got my Stocker crankshaft and he put me at the front of the line!

He probably will not be able to work much longer.

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

thank you john, sorry to hear that. I am going to call Valasco.

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

Hello, please contact Phil Mandella at PMR and see who he recommends…He is on top of it in SoCal ….:)

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

great idea

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

I used Castillos for several 455 Buick cranks years ago-so sorry to hear he is strugging, they were great to work with!

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

It’s surprisingly difficult to take a standard OEM crank and stroke it plus .013” and index the crank pins 90* to each other. It becomes a very tight window to work in. I do not have any experience with the new LS, Hemi, or Ford crankshafts but the old stuff was pretty bad.
Who ever you get make sure they have a wet magnaflux that can do end shots and coil shots with a demagnetizing setting and a hand held meter to check to residual magnetism. I think I remember this correctly, the cracks will show up perpendicular to current flow. Don’t want to spend money on a cracked crank or have a crank that attracts iron particles.

We still use our crankshaft straightener press.

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

You might look at at these folks.

I had a Bryant crank repaired there at Bryant's suggestion and they were easy to work with.

Marine Crankshaft, Inc.
2155 S Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705
(714) 549-2388

Re: crankshaft grinding for stock
 

Electronic chrome in Sante Fe Springs.