Fwd: <VV> Piston weights
Geoffrey A Johnson
geoffj at unm.edu
Mon Dec 12 15:38:51 EST 2005
Bob,
Yes, this is how GM did it. I have seen 6 gram spread in stock engines.
Usually I have ballanced to 1 gram all the way across, but that takes a
fair amount of work, and metal removal. Balancing opposing
pairs (1-2, 3-4, 5-6) will be
just fine.
HTH
-Geoff Johnson
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 HallGrenn at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/12/2005 10:12:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Levair at aol.com writes:
>
>> Bob thinks, and I tend to agree , that GM balanced the piston/rod
>> assemblies
>> in left to right pairs to save on rod balancing.
>>
>> Warren
>
> Warren: Since I'm starting to think about rebuilding another engine...Do you
> mean OPPOSING PAIRS--sounds logical.
>
> Bob Hall
> Group Corvair
>
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