Page 1 of 1

Piston weight and position on engine

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:32 am
by Donnieclark
Hi,

I am not very trusting of the food/postal scale, which does not seem to have the accuracy that I would trust in removing material, so hence the question. Should I grind to get them spot on or would I gain enough to take the time/chance? I have put many engines, air cooled small engines and water cooled automobile engines together but this is my first "Performance" engine.
Or should I grind to remove weight? Which then leads to the question of where to remove the weight?


I didn't find the right solution from the internet.

References: http://www.dunebuggyarchives.com/forum/ ... l?tid=5331

Corporate Promotional Animation

Re: Piston weight and position on engine

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:09 pm
by manxvair
I am curious as to how you handled this, did you grind weight off? or just position them as you mentioned?

Re: Piston weight and position on engine

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:29 pm
by Mutterranch
Try asking that question over on the Samba
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewf ... 8ac45ec801
There are some pretty sharp builders over there.