Seeing it's so dead on here

[1fastdeuce]

Originally Posted by 68Bowtie

I like your brand of welder. Which one is it a mm210?

A 250

[T-Bagger]

one piece glass front end for your nova http://madison.craigslist.org/pts/1584291331.html

[t65malibuss]

Looks nice but I think its going to be more of a street car.

[1fastdeuce]

Finally got around to balancing my crank. For those of you that don't know how that works, First we weigh each rod and match all of them to the lightest one and same goes for the pistons. Then we make what is called a bobweight which mimicks the piston, rod, bearings and rings and put them on the journals of the crank. Then spin the crank in a balancing machine the tells you where and how much material needs to be added/removed. We can do a better job then alot of people in the area seeing ours is digital and has a drill press mounted on the machine which means the crank doesn't have to come out of the machine until it's done.

Here are some pics

This was the crank spun right out of the box. It was 61 grams out on the front counterweights and 57 grams out on the rear. The other numbers are the location to take the weight out off of the reference point.


Crank in machine





Finished crank. Note the decimal point. It is 4 and 5 tenths of a gram. I will guarantee that if the crank is balanced on an old analog machine it will never be this precise.

[1fastdeuce]

Intake finally came on Friday. It was ordered Dec 8th. Don't know what the problem was.

[Joel_91GT]

looks like its coming along shane. Is this project more of a street car im guessing?

You hit the nail on the head with the analog vs digital balancers. we have a hines with a sliding drill press and milling table and its a very nice machine as well, pretty similiar to what your using there.

[1fastdeuce]

Originally Posted by Joel_91GT

looks like its coming along shane. Is this project more of a street car im guessing?

You hit the nail on the head with the analog vs digital balancers. we have a hines with a sliding drill press and milling table and its a very nice machine as well, pretty similiar to what your using there.

Yes, this is for a street vehicle.

Alot of the shops up here in the GB area have old Stewart/Warner analog balancers and they bring us the cranks with the bobweights on them already so all we have to do is spin them. I couldn't imagine having to pull the crank out of the machine , drill a hole, put it back in, pull it back out, drill some more, put it back in. I'll bet anybody that has to do that says good enough after pulling the crank out 4 or 5 times.

[Fireballferkey]

whats the shop you work for?

[68Bowtie]

Thats cool.

[BLUE66]

Originally Posted by Fireballferkey

whats the shop you work for?

He's workin' for me after the junk I dropped off today, LOL.