Flexing a Flex Plate?

Oldmanmopar said

I just saw you have a Hughes converter. I have seen some hughes engines come to HTA that literally chewed themselves apart from bad machine work. Good luck. No better then Shadey Dell or the old owners of Indy Cyl. Heads. Its all about the Benjamin's to them.

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Hughes engines and Hughes converters are two totally different companies. But I agree Hughes engines kind of suck.

As for where is the weights on the converter for the 360. Due to the fact he has the notched flexplate he must then run a neutral balanced converter.

Once the converter is bolted up to the flexplate the torque converter becomes one with the back of the crankshaft. This has no effect on the thrust bearing as the converter can still float if necessary on the front bushing of the pump in the transmission.