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>From headliners to engine building....yep, gotta few things going as once. I >didn't get a response on this but took my crank to a different shop yesterday. >These guys were definitely wise to performance. You can drill out the journal >to artificially make the counter weights heavier as an option. However, after >he spun my crank, he found that he only needed a single 1" slug (actually >shaved back a bit) in the front and no wieght (a little drilling to lighten >actually) in the rear. The first shop wanted to add 5 heavies in front and 2 >or 3 in the back. Very, very happy I decided to get a second opinion. Since my crank is still at the shop and I can't figure out how far to cut back those stupid headliner listing sleeves, I think I'll go polish my headliner trim, lol. BTW - I have not seen these in any of the vendor catalogs (side ones). The only thing they seem to carry is the black plastic trim. I have delux interior so maybe this was a part of the delux option??? Anyway, they were dinged and scratched up really bad and I've had to learn how to do "fillerless body work" on stainless trim. It's tough but doable. Sheen > .........................................................................> > > Has anyone used the trick of boring out the rod journal I.D. to artificially > make the counterwieghts heavier as opposed to adding heavy metal to balance > the crank? > > I took my crank back from the balance shop. They wanted to add > 47g x 8 pieces of heavy on the radius of the counterwieghts. Two bad ideas. > Of course I could make life really easy on myself and just fork out the cash > for some new lightweight rods...> > Thanks,> Sheen _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> Donations: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store/cart.mv?999999> FGF Merchandise: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store>
