Balancing an engine

For me crankshaft rotating assembly balance is NOT important, you only waste time and money for it.

Before the engine assemble, engineer has calculated how part will be made, weight, length..etc to make sure that when they put them together, they will achieve the BEST balanced. As long as you re-use the crank and rod, even you has your cylinder bore and use a new piston, this will not effect bottom end.

Think about it, the motor have 8 piston and firing order go by 1 8 4 3 6 5 7 2 , ASSUME at every 90° angles, there are explodes stroke occur, so that mean the crankshaft does not turn freely but force by combustion 4 time in 1 revolution(360°) , how do you "mechanically balance" this? This can only be done by engineer by using math and physics formula to calculate at which angle(position) the crankshaft will has much/less force, then balancing the whole thing by drill a hole in balancer . The machine shop can only balance the bottom end when crank is free, no force, its a joke.

This is exactly why I asked the question. I have seen a movie or film of the engines being assembled at the factory. They showed workers assembling the rods and pistons and then other workers inserting the rods and pistons one bank at a time on a V8. These guys were just picking up whatever piston or rod that was closest to them. They were not matched to any specific crank or to each other for that matter. We all know that factory quality control was not the best for these cars.

Jack