Learn how to balance your engine with this article on engine balancing with a 331 Ford small block engine, Featured from the March 2008 issue of Car Craft Magazine.

Most American V-8 engines use large counterweights toward the front and rear of the crankshaft, leaving the center without counterweights. This approach divides the engine into fore and aft halves.

The cost of your balance job relies mainly on not how much metal needs to be removed, but rather how much needs to be added. "We sometimes have to add a lot of weight to a crank in order to make ...

Crankshaft balancing is worth the extra cost and effort to improve its service life and get the best torque application from the engine. Converting cylinder pressure into crankshaft torque, ...

A V-6 fires a cylinder every time the crankshaft turns 120 degrees (720/6=120). That would imply a 120-degree angle between the banks, but that configuration is impractical for packaging reasons.

The counterweights on the 2009 crank will more than likely be designed to balance out the primary couple produced by 100% of the rotating and 50% of the reciprocating masses of the rods and ...