Pistons & Connecting Rods

Balancing

For maximum power and bearing longevity, we recommend balancing every engine on our Sunnen DCB2000 digital balancer. We can also balance your flywheel, flexplate, and balancers or match them to an existing one. If you’re really picky we can even balance any kind of crankshaft. When we’re done we print off the results for your records, and we also keep it on file for future reference. There are a few reasons we recommend balancing every engine. One is that factory balancing tolerances are really low. Also if you change any part of your rotating assembly (crankshaft, pistons, rods, bearings, rings, harmonic balancer, flexplatore flywheel) your balance will also change. Crankshafts that are out of balance essentially make an engine work against itself reducing power and economy not to mention damaging bearings, your drive train or literally shaking your car apart.