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SCAT Crankshafts Featured in Engine Builder Magazine

June 20, 2018 by SCAT Team

SCAT Crankshafts was recently featured in the April issue of Engine Builder Magazine! Here’s an excerpt from the article, all about balancing rotating assemblies:

Since balancing has become more critical, it is important to know what constitutes a balanced rotating assembly or not. If you look down the nose of a V8 or V6 crank, you’ll notice that the counterweights are like a corkscrew and that’s because they react with each other through the system of the crank itself. If you understand that then you can understand where to remove the metal.

‘When a crank is too heavy in one place, that means it’s too light in another,’ says Tom Lieb, founder of Scat Enterprises. ‘Being able to look at a crankshaft and understand where that weight is and make those decisions – not everybody can do that.’

Read the rest of the article here.

Photo courtesy of Engine Builder Magazine

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