My 360 build.

Question....I'm thinking that the main cost in balancing is the labor in weighing everything and the computations as opposed to the actual machining?


Nope. Most decent pistons are within a gram. Rods take maybe 10-15 minutes to balance. The math takes 5 minutes.

Assembling the bobweights and spinning the crank takes the time. Especially if someone else has been in there before. Or, you are removing a ton of weight.

The weight moves around the counterweights and does strange things when you remove a bunch. It just takes time.

To get a balance job down to 10 grams is pretty quick. 5 grams takes a bit more and under 2 grams will drive you nuts. Plus, it isn't right until it repeats.

Also, you just can't throw the bobweights on there.