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This is not a first time experiment... cranks with this modification are all ready proven in race winning engines. It does look scary though. If you think about it the dynamic loads associated with the combustion dwarf the static balance loads. The crank has to have brute strength to go racing at all. The rod journals on this 50+ year old design are three or more times the size (and weight) of a modern (i.e. Honda) engine design.
I'll report back here with real world results.
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Rick Clemente
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