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#1
10-31-2008, 11:31 AM
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Reference balancer
About a month ago i had a problem with a factory balancer it finally gave out broke from the key way. i purchased one of the pp balancers from ace brewer in california. i raced my car this past weekend we ran a best of 11.20 at 120 mph. My motor does not see anything over six grand i am a little nervous reference the balancer but i did call ace when all the contraversy involving the pp balancer came up. He did give me good news and if i have a problem he told me he would make it good. Ace if u are listening please state ur two cents. I am sure i am not the only one on this boat. Later.
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#2
10-31-2008, 11:41 AM
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Punisher#1 has had two BHJ's spin the inertia ring. Pontiac Dude also had the same issue with his as well.
Last edited by Steve C.; 10-31-2008 at 11:47 AM. |
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#3
10-31-2008, 11:42 AM
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Arrgghh I have one of those PPsfi too on my new IA2 motor. I bought that thing a while back for my new motor not knowing these things.
Well now I guess I will go out and find me a new balancer before I have problems and throw the thing in the rest of the pile of stuff I paid money for that I can use or lost in. Good thing I have not put good and hard time on it yet. With all the money on that motor I cannot take the chance hell what's another 400 bucks anyway? I didn't need to pay all of my property taxes anyway this month. What a bitch...
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10-31-2008, 11:52 AM
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I have never had a problem with any of the street balancers at all! We dyno ALOT of motors here. And I have yet to see a problem. I have had 2 SFI balancers come back. I made good on both of them. Every now and then you can have a problem with ANY part. It just happens. PP usualy will make good. And as Dave B. mentioned. I too have sheered the bolts on my ATI. Does that make it junk??? Hell no. Things happen even with the best made products. JMHO. Ace
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10-31-2008, 12:08 PM
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We saw quite a few failed balancers of various makes over the years come into our shop that were not torqued to 160 ft lbs.
A common theme coincidently was that they were torqued with a typical standard 150# torque wrench. As the owners found out, tweaking it to the max. setting or a tad past don't make it accurate. 
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10-31-2008, 12:17 PM
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The shop that I bought my PP street balancer from said the SFI ones were junk.
The hub was very tight on the crank,I didn't end up using it because the RARE billet pullies didn't fit on it. I ended up getting a Pioneer balancer and it fit just like a factory piece. |
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10-31-2008, 12:26 PM
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Harry, I didn't say every one I sold had an issue, I've checked a few that are our there running on engines close to me here and most have been fine, just too many have spun so I'd rather avoid a potential problem for my customers.
Good point Overkillphil, pretty much any cracked keyway can be blamed on inadequate torque on the crank bolt. Gotta love the facial expression we all make torquing these things on!! LOL 
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