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Originally Posted by HawgRyder
Horizontally opposed engines are inherently in balance if parts are close to the same weights.
V8's and inline engines benefit more from balancing IMHO.
We once built a VW engine with 92mm barrels at the back and 70mm barrels at the front...just to see what would happen.
We were surprised when it ran very nicely...actually fairly smooth.
Micro-balancing is more for race engines (maybe longer life at high RPM..?) than a street engine...or even on that is used for DE once in a while.
I'm not saying don't bother...but perhpas there are other places where the cash can be used.
Bob
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That kind of reminds me of where people have taken old VW motors and made them into air compressors by running them on two opposing cylinders and using the other two cylinders to compress air into a tank.