flexplate install

OK, well, if the damper is a 360 damper and the flexplate has some obvious imbalance to it (like a chunk out of one side), then you engine is (so-called) external balanced. If the flexplate has that obvious imbalanced shape, then no wight on the torque converter makes sense.

A little misleading. Only WEIGHTED BM type special flexplates have "a chunk out." OEM ones are not obvious, rather, a simple star.

I don't know now an engine builder would "balance" a weighted flex without converter? But the above is a good point