whats a balance shafts sorry,?

 

oh yea, he has a patriot head too.

balance shafts are necessary when raising the redline

 

It also takes away rotating mass, it frees up about 10-12 hp and its advertised as something thats good for your engine

 

where can this be found?

 

looking forward to some track times. You don't have a stock time do you?

 

Just remember that neutral balance shafts will cause some vibrations.

 

Man the balance shaft delete kit for the ecotec is expensive as hell

 

I think calling it a "delete kit" lead people to a misunderstanding. The shafts are being swapped for different ones and the cost for 10-12 hp seems reasonable.

 

Sorry I'm still thinking like a focus owner. The balance shats are deleted on the duratec motor thats why i called it a delete kit

 

gm carries them,my tech at the dealership was saying these things are great for the engine and you get rid of weight and get some ponies,is it true, he also said" it gets your revs up quicker"??

 

well if it lessens rotating mass, your motor will be able to accelerate faster meaning faster revving.

 

The balance shafts in the ECOtec engines are installed to counter the natural vibrations of a 4-cylinder engine to make it run smoother. The negative side is that they are weighted -- thus require horsepower to turn. They are timed/phased with the engine via the timing chain.

Neutral balance shafts are light-weight replacements for the weighted shafts. They require less horsepower to turn (they free-up, rather than create, horsepower). the negative side is that the engine vibration is greater.

If you drive your car 98% of its' life on the street and race it 2% of its' life on the track it probably would not be worth the extra horses to put up with the extra vibration.

 

What was the price to have the cams and shafts installed? what was the price for them overall? where can I get them? Im excited as hell, because i finally plugged into HPTuners and upped my rev limit to 7K, but im still running stock cams and springs. There is so much power in the top of 2nd and 3rd just by adding that extra 200 rpms! I cant wait to see what better cams and a limit of 8K will do!

 

i wonder if gm would install these?????? if so ill be getting mine in a couple of weeks if not sooner, im calling today.

 

never had to tune them in, they work like a charm, but tooning will only make them better, if you have a raised rev limitor you might want to consider valve springs so you dont chance a valve floating, to have cams installed 2 bills.

 

anyways took the car up to 5500rpms and holy **** it scared me, iwas travelling along and decided to step on it I was going 100kms and when I stepped on it, I was not expecting the power put out,really freaked me,I had to put the other hand on the steering wheel.LOL

 

I am sorry Mike, you may not be a good candidate to ride in my car when she's done, or at least not without a couple of prozac and a Depends on.

 

what was the offical install time on the cams? or more or less how many hours?

 

this has probably been asked, but are these regrinds or have blanks been released by gm?

 

Good Ol' depends

 

dynos? Mike?

 

ooo pick me pick me ill do it ill kill people to go for a ride in ur car when its done and im only minutes away in coquitlam..not like that mike guy whos way in delta....:P

 

i think he has jbp cams.

 

I'm not sure if this is a repost but what is the highest that you rev the engine to before you start cracking rockers or messing up springs or what not?

 

what if you have a ecu flash already will it benefit it better. how much were the cams