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Old 11-23-2011, 03:08 AM
michaelovitch michaelovitch is offline
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Originally Posted by jbg View Post
michaelovitch,

What are you planning to do to lighten the rods? I suppose the idea is to remove some material from each one? Are you planning on balancing the entire rotating assembly?

Excellent work, and thank you for sharing. I saw a few of your videos on Youtube, well done.
Thanks for your compliments.

I try to share because those engines are so cool and not enough loved it motivate too !

About the conrods : i will remove material from the cap and from the pin bushing part (i don't know the name)
But i will make the oil reserve bigger first and remove aroud.

i will try to soften or remove the typical vein of the forging process and a bit of polishing.
i will balance all of them of course and give them the same weight

I don't know if the machine shop in town make the dynamic balancing i will have to see that following the wallet capabilities....
a set of main bearings is 250 euros yet + condors bearings 150 euros +gaskets etc....
i need a bore gauge to see if the block is really still good first
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