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Originally Posted by ochowdero
oh yeah i would love a billet crank just handed to me for free haha
but like you said, stocks are good anyway..
im looking into a forged one with a different stroke pattern
or even if the 1jz crank will fit in a 7m..
i personally want torque and horseys..
and a longer piston stroke would be a great start(along with my engine rebuild)
like you said..
DREAMS...love em too
i may not be looking at it right(or it may be the fact that i dont even know what a supra harmonic balancer looks like) but isnt this way to big?
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Hi!
The harmonic balancer is the rubber centred pulley at the front of the crankshaft and this thing drives all of the accessories ( alternater, water pump etc. , The reason it is rubber centred ( the pulley part is not directly connected to the crankshaft ) is because , unlike the 4 cylinder engine, the 6 cylinder in-line engine creates it's own self destruct vibrations at high engine revolutions and fitting a solid pulley would not dampen these unwanted vibrations and the engine starts vibrating at high RPM usually resulting in early engine failure , usually a sheared crankshaft.
Judging by the number of threads complaining of theirs coming loose , I would say they are essential and need to be monitered for tightness on the crankshaft.
This is what they taught me at college , many ,many moons ago!