[DeTomaso] Need opinion regarding harmonic balancers

[Paul A. Rimov]

ATI and Romac make the best dampers available. Expect to pay $250 to $350. 
You can have your damper restored to like new for about $100 from Damper 
Dudes in Redding CA at 530-244-7225. Or you can experiment with the various 
other balancers available.

SFI certification is mostly for Racing purposes and does not infer quality. 
I have seen many of SFI certified parts fail.

 I was just talking with my local speed and machine shop yesterday about the 
"Rattler". He has never put them on an engine but has taken them off many 
times. He went on to tell me he was breaking in a customer's engine that the 
customer insisted on having a TCI balancer and after a few minutes the 
racket coming from the damper was so god awful the customer had him pull the 
damper off and replace it with a factor replacement.



Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LiTtOFreAkYDeViL at aol.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:59 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Need opinion regarding harmonic balancers


> Hey guys, i'm about to do a engine rebuild... and wanted some opinion
> regarding the harmonic balancers... after 30 years being stock u think i 
> should
> replace it with soemthing newer?
>
> I heard they can be rebuilt but then again on summit racing there are...
> cheap ones like 99.99 dollars... to the more expensive nicer TCI Rattler
> absorbing balancers
>
> Any opinon on how important this thing is?
>
> The ones I found are all 4 bolt... 28 oz imbalance, external balance, 6.3"
> diameter.. am i on the right track?
>
> So do i need or could i use something nice thats SFI-18.1 certified,  cnc
> machined to exacting tolerance, one that absorbs instead of dampens  with 
> no
> fluid, no elastomers so there's nothing to wear out and etc like  the tci
> rattler.. or would a cheap 99.99 dollar nodular iron street dampeners 
> with rubber
> inbetween the cneter hub and inertia ring?
>
> Thanks!!!
> Larry
> _______________________________________________
>
> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
>
> Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/
>
> DeTomaso mailing list
> DeTomaso at realbig.com
> http://ftl.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
>