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To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Balancing
From: WSpohn4@aol.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:38:17 EST
 I had the pistons, pins and con rods connected at my local machine
> shop. I put them on a precision balance to check them and here are the
> results:
>
> 1. 1300.4g
> 2. 1358.8g
> 3. 1364.0g
> 4. 1353.0g
>
> According to a friend that races cars he tells me that race guys match them
> to 0.1g! He recommended drilling small holes in the bottom of con rod
> counter weight. 

First, don't listen to your friend - he may drive em but he sure doesn't know
how to build em.
Go to a competent engine shop and have them balanced properly. A variance of
64 grams is a bad joke. We 'zero' balance for racing, but within about a gram
is fine for the street.

Want to lose sleep over something else? Try cc'ing your combustion chambers
sometime. I sometimes think that a blind man carving a head out of a lump of
coal could have done a better job than BMC did on their head design  and
production values. Or check your valve seat measurements or..........


Bill

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