Scat or Manley?

[Ian_Olivas]

What do you guys prefer or think is better. A scat stroker kit or Manley stroker kit? Or are they both pretty much the same and based on preference?

 

[Nick@GotExhaust]

do you have links to the exact ones you are interested in?

 

[chrisp2493]

Definetly Manley. I would still have a machine shop check the crank balance because the factory only balances to a tolerance and it’s not always good enough for high performance. The scat kit comes with lower quality I beam rods and to upgrade to better ones the price goes way up. I’ve heard Eagle makes a good kit for the price also, Summit has their stuff. And one last one is Calling Inertia Motorsports, their kit ran about $3000 and Stu has a great reputation and customer service behind his stuff. I was going with his before my machine shop got me a good deal on the Manley kit


I Bleed Ram Trucks

 

[tjfdesmo]

Manley has been around a loooooong time.

 

[Graygoose]

Either. I used a Scat on a 383, and many have I know that race all the time.
But like ANY pre-assembled kit, Id check crank, rods etc for tolerances.

 

[Nick@GotExhaust]

Manley does seem to be the favorite but I have seen a lot of Scat products take a beating without even blinking. I think they are both very good products but Manley is probably the more tested and proven of the brands

 

[Graygoose]

Look at Eagle as well.

 

[Ian_Olivas]

do you have links to the exact ones you are interested in?

Look at Eagle as well.

I do have links let me look them up again and post them on here and to graygoose I'll look at some eagle stuff and post a link as well

 

[Ian_Olivas]

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do you have links to the exact ones you are interested in?

And I did forget to mention that I never found a Manley stroker kit. I just looked up individually the pistons, rods and crank so the Manley stuff will be linked to individual parts

 

[Ian_Olivas]

Manley
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/man-597220c-8
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/man-191832/overview/make/dodge
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/man-14056r-8/overview/make/dodge

Scat 392 Kit
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sca-1-48506bi/overview/make/dodge


Also does it matter if the kit is balanced or not since I would take it to a machine shop to get balanced?

 

[Graygoose]

I think you'd want balanced