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REALLY ? I have a junk **** damper with over 10,000 miles still runs , iyt's more than just the damper
Because I’ve seen better cranks than that junked by junk **** dampers. That’s why.
I’m saying at the very least, that damper was BIG in the destruction of that entire engine.
There are THOUSANDS of pages of information out there on vibration, harmonics, torsion twist and more that are FREE if you want to learn.
When Tom Lieb, the owner of Scat Cranks says NOT to use an ATI damper because of its design and manufacture, I would listen, especially if it was HIS crank.
There is no way I’d spend all that money and use ANY brand, ANY type of elastomer damper. Ever.
I beat the **** out of my junk as hard as anyone and I never failed a STOCK steel crank at 8500 plus RPM, on alcohol with most of the the time more than 15:1 compression.
I still can’t grasp why the general population thinks any elastomer damper is acceptable? They were used by OEM’s because they were cheap, and they were TUNED for 99% of the use out there.
NHRA didn’t ban OE dampers because they own stock in ATI, Fluidamper, Innovaters West or any others.
They did it because power levels are way, way up and that stock type junk is well past its design and engineering.
Of course, all this is easily located if you want to find it.
EDIT: I know of at least 3 billet cranks killed by junk **** dampers. One was a Keith Black billet, naturally aspirated. The others were N/A as well, but I don’t remember who made those.
They also killed the block. Main cap fretting, bolts not holding tension, freak balance train issues all point to junk dampers.
BTW, I run gear drives on ALL my junk. And yet, no broken cranks, except the 8 bolt crank under my reloading bench. And guess what??? That engine came with a junk **** damper, and the crank fractured because of it.
