The 1960 Corvette did not shout about radical change from the curb, yet under its fiberglass skin engineers were quietly chasing better balance. By trimming weight and shifting mass rearward, they ...

It has come to our attention that many of the top drag racing builders are overbalancing their engine assemblies. Basically, this is done to help high-rpm out-of-balance conditions and generate longer ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So your mechanic said your balance shaft gear is starting to wear out, and it got you thinking: What even is a balance shaft, and ...