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Old 06-25-2012, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton View Post
The intial engine disigns pretty much had internal balance but as cubes went up, with longer stroke cranks, the counter weights got cut down so the pistons would clear the crank weights so some compamies put extra weight in the flywheel and front damper--- using a constant amount and location of the weight added to the flywheel allows for exchanging flywheels without having to rebalance the complete assembly----
Makes sense, thanks. Do I conclude then that a 302 with stock bore or close to it, and standard stroke should be close to being zero balanced?
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Glen
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