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    Author Topic: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off  (Read 2236 times)

    Offline Roppa440

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    Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « on: February 25, 2009 - 05:00:42 AM »
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    Offline Chryco Psycho

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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #1 on: February 25, 2009 - 11:17:43 AM »
    that is bad , I had heard they were in trouble , should have ordered a few sets of the ductile iron rockers before they closed  :banghead:
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #2 on: February 25, 2009 - 02:02:23 PM »
    Quote from: Chryco Psycho on February 25, 2009 - 11:17:43 AM
    that is bad , I had heard they were in trouble , should have ordered a few sets of the ductile iron rockers before they closed  :banghead:

    Neil, Summit and Jegs probably still have some in stock.
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    Offline 72bluNblu

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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #3 on: February 25, 2009 - 02:12:16 PM »
    Summit doesn't, its showing a ship date of 4/16 for the 1.5 ratio and 4/18 for the 1.6's. I'm thinking they won't be getting that shipment...

    Definitely sad news.  :crying:
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #4 on: February 25, 2009 - 02:48:23 PM »
    Another thing that sucks is that they also provided cam blanks to other companies, so there may be some trickle down from this...

    ugh this isn't good.
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #5 on: February 25, 2009 - 03:21:05 PM »
    Oh crap - this is PERMANENT...  Man that's awful.
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #6 on: February 25, 2009 - 03:22:12 PM »
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    Quote from: ntstlgl1970 on February 25, 2009 - 02:48:23 PM
    Another thing that sucks is that they also provided cam blanks to other companies, so there may be some trickle down from this...ugh this isn't good.


    When I heard about this, I ordered my cam from Bulet cams right away.
    I don't know if they were getting the blanks from them. But I didn't want to find out later on they did

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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #7 on: February 25, 2009 - 03:57:25 PM »
    Anyone remember the crane firebal?   3/4 cam :naughty:  That was a dull cam, but worked way back when 30 yrs ago
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #8 on: February 25, 2009 - 05:09:01 PM »
    Definitely sad news indeed. Another sign of the times. What's odd is I just talked to Kurt at Magnum Machine which is a local machine shop/speed shop in Chesapeake VA and he is swamped with work and hasn't even started on my motor build other than doing the port job on my heads. I think more people are keeping what they have, so more work for local machine shops/car repair shops. I guess some folks will prosper from this economy situation and I am glad for those folks. I hope & pray the folks out of work will soon find other employment!! :2thumbs:


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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #9 on: February 25, 2009 - 05:29:56 PM »
    PAWinc.com still had several sets when I talked to them a couple of weeks ago.
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #10 on: February 25, 2009 - 05:37:49 PM »
    Man this sucks! This will make pretty big ripples in our performance pond.
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #11 on: February 25, 2009 - 06:48:05 PM »
    Holley files bankruptcy a few weeks ago and now this, what's going to be left of this country when this is all over?
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #12 on: February 25, 2009 - 10:40:21 PM »
     :canada: and also north of the border. Things are slowing down here faster than the US has. Mind you our demand on places like Holley, Edelbrock and Crane are nothing compared with the US. Definitely not the end of things as hobbies are the first thing people drop in hard times. Family health, home, food, job, basic transportation is something of the order of priorities.
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #13 on: February 26, 2009 - 10:05:13 AM »
    A little concerned about what will be left when this finally turns around...
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    Re: Crane Cams shuts down, workers laid off
    « Reply #14 on: February 26, 2009 - 11:27:54 AM »
    Sad News for sure.  I bet almost everyone here can tell a storya bout installing aCran Cam in one of their cars especially if the grew up in the 70's & 80's when Crane was THE brand name in cams.
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