Originally Posted By dogdays
Just what I was going to say.

People get all excited about external balancing an engine, yet any V8 without center counterweights is balancing the inner four cylinders externally, as the balance is mostly in the outer four.

I bet we'd be amazed at the bending stresses on the crankshafts.

R.
I can tell you this for a fact......Donovan aluminum block 738 with a Bryant billet crank, ATI damper and the crank sensor set at a .045 gap will flex the crank snout enough to touch the trigger wheel and kill the motor on the chassis dyno.......LOL!!! Did it last week twice before I found it.....LOL!!!.......And NO, there is no runout on the trigger wheel causing it. It just moves that much and that is WITHOUT the nitrous activated