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Old 10-08-2007, 09:47 PM
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Im gonna be getting my motor rebuilt and the rot. assemly balanced..I know with my LT1 I needed to have the flywheel. What am I gonna need to get the LS1 balanced? Can it be 0 balanced?
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I would like a little insight on this also. I'm taking my block and rotating asmly to get checked and balanced later this week.
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ok for the crank to be balanced what they do is drill on some of the counter weights for it to be the same they got a special mechine for it to do the weighing. for the rods what they do is weigh all the rods and the weigh the small end of the rods and try and get the weight down to the lightest rod you have and they grind the others down to that so they are all the same. same as pistons there just trying to get them all to be the same weight
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Im fairly certain the LS1 is internally balanced, which is why you can switch out to the heavier LS2 flywheel without problems.
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The LS1 is internally balanced (no need to have the flywheel when balancing).
It can be 0 balanced.




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