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Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/25/13 03:56 PM
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Michael Ecks
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Or who else makes a damper like this.
Similar to stock appearance in front.
LA360 external balance
Counterweights that bolt to rear of damper.
Not chromed.
SFI not needed.
Closest I can find is the Professional Products brand Powerforce Series steel unit, and the ProRace Performance Products brand Pro Street nodular iron.
The Pro-Race is the less expensive of the two, which may or may not be a good thing.
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your thoughts" ~ Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/25/13 05:13 PM
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StealthWedge67
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I run a powerforce damper on my 451. Been there for a few years, thousands of street miles, and many trips to 6500. No issues to speak of. I had the motor apart last winter, and the damper looked good as new. Personally, I believe that most issues people have with many products that arent "top dollar", are actually installation / build errors that get blamed on the part. If its a high dollar part that lets go, its "Wow - Bummer. Good luck figuring out what happened". If its a less than high dollar part, its "thats what you get for buying cheap parts". 
LemonWedge - Street heavy / Strip ready - 11.07 @ 120
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/25/13 05:32 PM
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The Pro Race and Pro Street are good units
Professional Products not so much--they have soft rubber. I have used a ton of the Pro units on many brands with excellent results.
Pioneer stock replacement is OEM or better quality--very stock looks-- but not cheap
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/25/13 08:24 PM
11/25/13 08:24 PM
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I use the Pro Street balancer on 2 different engines including the eng in my 63 right now. I have not had any problems with them and I do race my car sometimes. Ron
The pioneer brand is made by pro-bond and is a good damper. We used to sell the professional products dampers, but after many failures we discontinued that line. We carry the pro-bond/ pioneer dampers in their place.
Okay, I'm the curious kind.
How does a balancer with an sfi rating (I believe that's 13,000 rpm)experience "many failures"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
BTW, I have been using a PP balancer for about 5 years on several engines with no issue. 
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/25/13 08:57 PM
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/To get the SFI rating on Professional Products damper they simply rivet a thin ring on the front to keep the outer band from leaving town when it fails--does not keep it from failing. They use a very soft , poor quality rubber. They come apart-- SFI does not mean fail proof or bullet proof just that it lasted a minute on a machine somewhere at ONE time way far away in another galaxy, then...they pay for a roll of SFI stickers that come on a roll like movie tickets and TaDa!
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
[Re: Michael Ecks]
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11/26/13 01:05 AM
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Michael Ecks
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Thanks for the feedback, looks like the Pro Race brand is the way to go for me.
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of
your thoughts" ~ Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/26/13 09:20 AM
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I'm using the prostreet damper on my small block stroker. No problems after two years of street use.
I think they're just fine on a street car, and definitely a good alternative to re-using an old stock damper.
If I were racing, or had a four speed, I'd probably go with something better.
-Jim
I can fix it... my old man is a television repairman.
He's got the ultimate set of tools... I can fix it.
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Re: Professional Products Dampers. Any good?
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11/26/13 01:19 PM
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BradH
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372 readers, 16 posts and still no specific description of a first hand experience of Performance Products failure.
"RAMM" (Jess Robinson) was running either a Professional Products or 440Source brand (possibly the same part, but he'd need to confirm that) damper on one of his BB EMC entries a few years ago when it failed during the competition. Ask him what happened.
Also, how about a performance machine shop that couldn't get a rotating assembly to balance properly w/ the PP damper installed, so they swapped it out for another brand and resolved the issue? They won't deal with PP dampers anymore.
IMO, for a budget damper, you can only go so "budget" before you're buying a sub-standard part, SFI-certified or not. The Powerbond / Pioneer SFI damper would get my vote under those circumstances.
I know that Jeg's offers that brand under their house label, but you need to look up pictures of the products from both sources to confirm which of the Jeg's-labeled SFI dampers are from Powerbond / Pioneer vs. another supplier.
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