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MeanGreen94Z
02-24-2009, 11:15 PM
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/breakingnews/crane022409.htm


sad day in the performance world
chevy42083
02-25-2009, 01:02 AM
:(
96LT1355Z28
02-25-2009, 06:39 AM
Sucks for everyone especially the workers and their familys, kind of a BS way to go out for a company that's been around that long. :frustrated:
rebuilt
02-25-2009, 07:46 AM
Can't compete with the jap-crap on bay. Why buy quality when you can buy in bulk :(
knight367
02-25-2009, 08:14 AM
that is the sadest thing i've heard todoay
BLOWNDFIZ
02-25-2009, 09:27 AM
Comp Cams really put a hurting on Crane. But Crane has been shooting themselves in the foot for the past few years as well. I think the Crane name will come back someday because they do have a strong performance aftermarket history. Once the economy recovers someone will buy the Crane name and revive it.

Honestly I hope Holley can survive...Could you imagine the performance market without Holley???
LT1RUNNER
02-25-2009, 09:48 AM
Yup. Pretty soon we'll be ordering CHING HAI cams and KAMAKAZI heads for our Chevy's. So long Crane!! You'll be missed. :(
KissMyWhtSS
02-25-2009, 10:40 AM
:(
hempkat94z
02-25-2009, 10:48 AM
Comp Cams really put a hurting on Crane. But Crane has been shooting themselves in the foot for the past few years as well. I think the Crane name will come back someday because they do have a strong performance aftermarket history. Once the economy recovers someone will buy the Crane name and revive it.

Honestly I hope Holley can survive...Could you imagine the performance market without Holley???

Yeah you are right about the fact that Crane has been hurting for a while. A few of my friends work for Comp and they have talked for years about how Crane was going down hill.
Camaro_94
02-25-2009, 11:55 AM
That sucks.. I have a feeling too that they will be back up when the economy recovers. They had some great stuff over there.
MeanGreen94Z
02-25-2009, 12:27 PM
i heard somewhere crane supplied over 75% of all cam grinders (comp included) with their cores... wonder what they are gonig to do now???
hempkat94z
02-25-2009, 12:45 PM
i heard somewhere crane supplied over 75% of all cam grinders (comp included) with their cores... wonder what they are gonig to do now???
Nope
BLOWNDFIZ
02-25-2009, 01:30 PM
i heard somewhere crane supplied over 75% of all cam grinders (comp included) with their cores... wonder what they are gonig to do now???

This was true. When I was a Product Manager and added Crane as a vendor of ours they were providing nearly all of the other cam companies cam cores including some OE's. Comp, Edelbrock, Lunati to name a few were getting the cores from Crane. I added Comp as a vendor in 2008 and they had grown to a point where they could source their own cores, add that to the fact Crane could not supply them to keep up with their demand and you can see what happened. I'm not sure but last I knew they were still providing the cores as well as the "red anodized" rockers to Edelbrock. Not sure about Lunati though.
Z28pr0jekt
02-25-2009, 02:16 PM
I'm incredibly happy I ordered my custom grind through comp lol
hempkat94z
02-25-2009, 02:30 PM
Lunati is now owned by the owners and I believe they are now also using the same cam core company as Comp.
stormy69
02-25-2009, 10:22 PM
thats as bad as 20 jan was :(
BluBeaSSt
02-26-2009, 08:14 AM
Well I'm now really glad I have a Comp custom ground cam now....That sucks
MeanGreen94Z
02-26-2009, 12:36 PM
still in my opinion Crane had FAR better quality cams than Comp... i know they used to grind all of GMs cams